The document provides information on past tenses and feelings in three sections: 1. It explains the past simple and past continuous tenses, when to use each, and provides examples of their structures. 2. A section on feelings lists common feelings and moods along with example verbs used to express them. 3. The final section provides writing tips for students such as using subject-verb-object structure, adverbs, expressing likes and dislikes, vocabulary choice, sentence length, repetition, verb tenses, and prepositions.

1. UNIT 1: IMAGES

2. Past simple &
Past Continuous
Past Simple Past Continuous
•Short actions (quick) •Long actions
•Finished actions •Actions still in progress
•Keywords: when, •Background actions:
suddenly… used to describe
contexts
•Keywords: while, as ,
when…
I was sleeping when suddenly the burglar broke into my house.

3. Examples:
• The telephone rang when I was having a
bath.
• While they were watching TV, thieves
broke into the house.
• As I was reading the paper, I heard a
loud noise.
• While Susie was cleaning the floor, the
baby tripped with a toy.

4. Structures
Past Continuous:
Subj.+ was/were+ v-ing (affirmative)
Subj.+ wasn’t/weren’t+v-ing (negative)
(Wh-) Was/were +Subj.+ v-ing?(question)
Past Simple:
Subj.+ - ed + object ( affirmative)
Subj.+didn’t+ Inf+ Object ( negative)
Did+ Subj.+ Inf.+ Object? ( question)

5. Simultaneous Actions
• He was reading a book while I was
cooking dinner.
• While I was rocking the baby I was
sleeping.

6. FEELINGS
• Mischievous (miskívus)
• Blissful ( blísful)
• amused (amiúst)
• calm (kám)
• cheerful (chíirful)
• confident (confident)
• content (kontént)
eager (íguer)
• satisfied (sátisfáid)
• ecstatic (ekstátic)
• enthusiastic (enzusiástic)
inspired (inspáierd)
• elated (iléitid) – regocijado
energetic (eneryétic)
• pleased (plíist)
excited (eksáitid)
• grateful (gréitful)
• thrilled (zríld)
hopeful (hóupful)

7. MOOD
• afraid (afréid) – con miedo
angry (áangry) – enfadado
annoyed (anóid) – disgustado
ashamed (ashéimd) – avegonzado
bored (bóord)
confused (confiúst)
• depressed (diprést)
• lonely (lóunli) – solo y triste
upset (apsét)
• sad (sáad)
• tired (táierd)
disappointed (disapóintid)
distressed (distrést)
• embarrased (embárrast)
frightened (fráitend)
• frustrated (frástréitid)
• jealous (dchélos)
worried (uórrid)

8. VERBS & FEELINGS
• POSE
• SMILE
• FROWN
• MAKE A FACE
• LAUGH
• TO BE GLAD
• TO ANGER
• TO REGRET
• TO BOTHER
• TO SURPRISE
• TO FEAR
• TO DOUBT
• TO DENY

9. VERBS & FEELINGS
• HOPE
• TO HUG
• CUDDLE
• EMBRACE

10. NOW YOUR TURN!
1. Comment the following pictures
With your partner.
2. What are the doing?

11. Key sentences:
• OK. Let me see ... what do these photos show?
The first/second picture/photo shows ...
• Thank you, Alex. Yuko, which of these pictures do
you prefer?
• Liking: I prefer A to B. I like A more than B. I like A,
but I dislike B. A is more ... than B
• Giving your opinion
• In my opinion, ...
For me, ...
I think that ...
It seems to me that…

12. Writing tips
• Subject + verb + Object
• Adverbs : verb to be, can + adverb
adverb + other verbs( go, think…)
• Like and dislikes + Ving : I love dancing
• Keep it simple , not very long sentences
• Try new vocabulary
• Avoid being repetitive
• After prepositions + -ing : I’ interested in
studying
• Don’t make a mess with verb tenses