1. Thursday FEBRUARY 25

2. Agenda Warm Up Vocabulary practice Grammar: Unit 2 Listening Reading

3. Announcements Please turn in your letters to me

4. Warm- Up The Best Decision Think of a difficult decision that you made but which you’re confident that you made the right choice and tell the people in your table. Try to use the simple past tense verb.

5. Were/ Was worksheet

6. Vocabulary Write a sentence with each of your new vocabulary words. Ex. I took a long journey 28 years ago from Guatemala to the United States.

7. Grammar Review Unit 2 Positive statements in Simple PastNegative Statements S + Be (past)S + Be (past) + not I was hungry. Yalda wasn’t hungry. They were late. Jesus and Marco weren’t late.

8. Grammar Review Unit 2 Positive Statements (regular) Negative Statements (regular) S + past verbS + did + not + base verb He traveled to Japan.We did not (didn’t) travel abroad. Positive Statements (irregular) Negative Statements (irregular) S + past irregular verb S + did + not + base irregular verb Jenny went home last week. Jenny did not go home last week.

9. Exercises 2 and 3

10. Grammar Unit 2 Simple Past tense We use the simple past tense to talk about events that are finished. Bryan worked in a construction company. Lisa moved to Los Angeles.

11. Simple Past We often use the simple past with past time expressions (yesterday, last week, 4 years ago, in the 1950s, by 1991). Yesterday, I visited my grandmother. Last week, I went to Santa Barbara. Michelle came to this country 4 years ago. Women wore beautiful dresses in the 1950s. By 1991, she had three children.

12. Your turn. In your groups, fill in the sentences. Yesterday, I _________________________. Last week, I ________________________. __________________________4 years ago. __________________________in the 1950s. By 1991, ___________________________.

13. Yes/ No Questions How do you form yes/ no questions with be verbs? Be+ S Are you sick? Now in the past tense… Were you sick?Yes, I was. Was she sick? No, she wasn’t. Be (past) + S

14. Yes/ No Turn these sentences into yes/ not questions. He moved to Edo. He had 2000 students. How do you form yes/ no questions with the simple past of regular and irregular verbs? Did + S + base

15. Yes/ No Questions How do you form yes/ no questions with do verbs? Do you like coffee?Yes, I do. Now in the past-tense. Did she come to class yesterday?Yes, she did./ No, she didn’t.

16. Wh- questions Who was Basho? What did he do? How do you form simple past wh- questions? Wh- word + was/were + subject Wh- word + did + Subject + base

17. Wh- questions When/ why (with did). When did she work in the office? Why did he drive his car yesterday? How do you form wh- questions in the past with did? Wh + did + S + base

18. Wh-questions Where /When/ Why (with be verbs). Where were you? When was she here? Why was he late? How do you form wh- past tense questions with be verbs? Wh- + be + S

19. Exercises 4, 5, 6, 7

20. Listening Exercise A and B

21. Speaking Practice Make a timeline similar to the one of my life. 1982 1987 2000 2006 2013 │________|_________|________|_________|_________|________| Born Came Graduated traveled Started teaching After you have created your timeline, share your life stories with your group.

22. Reading strategies What is the main idea? When we read, sometimes we want to know every word in the reading and we immediately look at our dictionaries. But sometimes, we don’t have enough time to do that, so it is more important to focus on the main idea or the meaning of the reading. What is the main idea if the Matsuo Basho reading? Without telling your group the name of the movie, describe the main idea of the story of your favorite movie.

23. Reading In tonight’s reading, we will read about a famous soccer player and do some activities with the reading.

24. What did you learn? Do NOT write. I learned the simple past tense. I learned new vocabulary. This tells me nothing.

28. At the end of class… What did you learn? In one to two sentences, write what you learned. This will help you to review for quizzes and tests.