Level 5 Saturdays

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

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SYLLABUS
CONTENT MAP

Methodology:
Project work
Task Based Learning
Genre Text Instruction

Assessment:

Asessment Activities	Percentage	Dates
Exam 1	20 %	March 1
Speaking Task	15%	March 15
Exam 2	20%	March 22
Follow-up	25%
Project Work	20%	(presentations) March 29

February 15, 2014

Film English: Soulmate




Activity: Speaking, watching a short film, and anwering an interactive questionnaire.
Topic: Soulmates and true love.
Language: Vocabulary to describe love and relationships.

Review: simple past

Simple past, function:
The simple past is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. Duration is not important. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past.

• John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
• My father died last year.
• He lived in Fiji in 1976.
• We crossed the Channel yesterday.

You always use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain past time expressions

• frequency:
  often, sometimes, always;
• a definite point in time:
  last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago.
• an indefinite point in time:
  the other day, ages ago, a long time ago etc.

Simple Past Form

Affirmative sentences:

Use the same form of the verb every time regardless the subject.

regular verbs	irregular verbs
I played football.	I went to the supermarket.

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Negative sentences:

Use the auxiliary did (Simple Past of do) every time regardless the subject.

regular verbs	irregular verbs
I did not play football.	I did not go to the supermarket.

NOTE: Short forms in negative sentences in the Simple Past are used quite often.

regular verbs	irregular verbs
I didn't play football.	I didn't go to the supermarket.

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Questions:

Use the auxiliary did (Simple Past of do) every time regardless the subject.

regular verbs	irregular verbs
Did you play football?	Did I go to the supermarket?

Activities:

1. Video: What did you do yesterday?

2. Reading comprehension: who is J.k. Rowling

3. Reading aloud: Princess SmartyPants

Contest: Revision Spin Off

Homework:

3. Listen to the song and do the activity: Viva la vida, Coldplay

4. Regular and irregular verbs

Narratives

Narrative structure

Types of narrative texts

Some facts about narrative texts

Sample narrative

Homework:

Write your own narrative story using the narrative scaffold format 

March 1st

Describig and narrating experiences I had when traveling.


Decribing pictures



A moment in time

My favorite photo



Past Progressive and Simple Past

Form

Simple Past	Past Progressive
irregular verbs: see 2nd column of irregular verbs I spoke regular verbs: verb + ed I worked	past form of 'be' + ing form of verb I was speaking you were speaking he / she / it was speaking we were speaking they were speaking
Exceptions
Exceptions when adding 'ed' : when the final letter is e, only add d. Example: love - loved after a short, stressed vowel, the final consonant is doubled Example: admit - admitted final l is always doubled in British English (not in American English) Example: travel - travelled after a consonant, final y becomes i. (but: not after a vowel) Example: worry - he worried but: play - he played	Exceptions when adding 'ing' : silent e is dropped (but: does not apply for -ee) Example: come - coming but: agree - agreeing after a short, stressed vowel, the final consonant is doubled Example: sit - sitting final l is always doubled in British English (not in American English) Example: travel - travelling final ie becomes y. Example: lie - lying

See also explanations on Simple Past and Past Progressive

Use

After another or at the same time?

Do you want to express that the actions in the past happened one after another or at the same time?

Simple Past	Past Progressive
after another She came home, switched on the computer and checked her e-mails.	at the same time Simon was playing on the computer while his brother was watching TV.

New action or already in progress?

If you want to express that a new action happened in the middle of another action, you need both tenses: Simple Past the new action and Past Progressive for the action already in progress.

Simple Past	Past Progressive
new action My mobile rang (when I was sitting in a meeting.)	action already in progress While I was sitting in a meeting, (my mobile suddenly rang.)

Only mentioning or emphasising progress?

Do you just want to mention that an action took place in the past (also used for short actions)? Or do you want to put emphasis on the progress, e.g. that an action was taking place at a certain time?

Simple Past	Past Progressive
just mentioning Colin played football yesterday.	emphasising progress Yesterday at six o'clock, Colin was playing football.

Certain Verbs

The following verbs are usually only used in Simple Past (not in the progressive form).

• state: be, cost, fit, mean, suit
  Example: We were on holiday.
• possession: belong, have
  Example: Sam had a cat.
• senses: feel, hear, see, smell, taste, touch
  Example: He felt the cold.
• feelings: hate, hope, like, love, prefer, regret, want, wish
  Example: Jane loved pizza.
• brain work: believe, know, think, understand
  Example: I did not understand him.
• introductory clauses for direct speech: answer, ask, reply, say
  Example: “I am watching TV,“ he said.

Signal words

Simple Past	Past Progressive
first then If-Satz Typ II (If I talked, …)	when while as long as

The Photo

Read the following stories about a famous photo. With this sample, do your own photo story.

Vacation Experiences:

Telling stories about vacation and traveling experiences

Comparing places

Watch the video. How do they describe Colombia?

Reading about holidays

Holidays 2


Vocabulary: Adjectives to describe places

Comparatives


Project Work

Here are some samples of graphic organizers:

Graphic Organizers Book

Holt Interactive graphic organizers

Eduplace Graphic Organizers