PAST SIMPLE VS PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

•  Notes in Spanish1 (apuntes en español) in Spanish 2
• Grammar reference: form, use and signal words

1. Exercises for fast finishers: The Pilgrims
2. Basic exercises: test 1
3. Standard exercises: exercise 1 exercise 2 excercise + answers

Travelling back in time

Imagine that you had a time machine and you could change something from the past.  Write a paragraph about your experience. Answer the following questions to help you:

1) Where did you travel to?

2) Who did you meet?

3) What did you do?

4) How did you feel afterwards?

5) How did your actions affect the future?

Revision UNIT2:

- present perfect: 

* Write affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences

* just, already, yet

- present perfect or past simple:

 * exercise 1 

- past simple or past perfect:

                                                                            * exercise 2 

 - vocabulary exercises related to crime , crime 2

Revision UNIT 1:

 UNIT 1

GRAMMAR REVISION

- Present simple or continuous I complete

- present simple or continuous II choose the right answer

- present simple or continuous III complete

- past simple or continuous I

- mixed tenses choose the right answer

- mixed tenses II choose the right answer

-mixed tenses III complete

READING COMPREHENSION

- Read: Parents and technology

- Read the text. Are the following statements true or false:

1) Teresa is proud of her parents' technological knowledge.

2) Teresa loves her mum's comments on Facebook.

3) One of Teresa's mum's doubts about computers is something you learn at Primary School.

4) Her mum is good at making blurry photos.

5) Teresa's mum only asks her about her doubts on the computer.

How to use unless (minute 2.40)

Revision and extension for Unit 2 (4º ESO)

video: fundraising ideas
video: how to bid at an auction

Watch the video and answer the questions:
1) Which product are they advertising?
2) Write at least two adjectives to describe the     product.
https://youtu.be/IFrkSiCvBo0   



Listen to a job interview and answer the questions
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yB2iGzQYFKPMRpGsWF05iGAVmSzhhf2K/view?usp=sharing


Review verb tenses: past simple or past perfect
GRAMMAR EXPLANATION (in Spanish)
- test 1
- test 2
- past simple or past perfect 1
- past simple or past perfect 2

Review unit 1: CUMULATIVE GRAMMAR 
- past simple or past continuous
- used to (grammar explanation + exercise)

Write suitable endings for each situation:
- What had happened?

1. Before the teacher arrived...
2. When I saw you...
3. Before my best friend phoned me...
4. Before we went to our school trip...

Read the texts and answer the questions:
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/intermediate-b1-reading/job-adverts

How to write a formal letter to apply for a job:
Letter guideline and format

Revision and extension for Unit 1 (4º ESO)

- Two ideas for using social media and mobile phones to reduce cyber bullying:

* @westhighbros
* stopit app
- Write a couple of supportive compliments to the person that goes behind you on the list.

- Past simple vs. Past continuous
grammar note (Spanish)

- Used to
grammar note
exercise 1

- for / since
exercise 1

- adopt a wolf: What do you know about NGOs? Watch the presentation and create your own dialogue:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yPfpbwQpO5L2y3ZcZ2T5G4vmlepAsmvY
http://www.lobopark.com/en/

The Angry Birds Movie Official Teaser Trailer #1 (2015) - Peter Dinklage...

1) Look for the following words in the dictionary. What type of words are they?
1. wave at somebody
2. wink at somebody
3. anger
4. downwards
5. blow up

2) Answer the questions about the video:
1. What was the red bird doing when the orange bird waved at him?
2. How was the red bird?

3) Complete the sentences:
1. The little white bird was playing football while ...
2. The psychologist told them to manage their anger through ...
3. When the birds cried SURPRISE...
4. The birds were standing on the beach...
5. The sign hit the red bird on the head as...

4) Write your opinion about what happens to the red  bird after the last scene. Use the following connectors: when, while, as...

Past simple exercises

Board game (questions about the past)
Exercises

PAST SIMPLE EXERCISES

1. Complete the sentences with the right past verb forms.
 1. He ………………………………………… (not /eat) meat.
 2. I didn’t go to the cinema because I …………….... (write) my homework yesterday.
 3.She …………… (listen) to music last month.
 4. Tom ……………. (play) with his new dog last week.
 5. Mr House is a doctor. He ………………………. ( work) in a new hospital in London.
 6. My English teacher …….....................................(not/ go)to the English school..

 2. Write what Jean DID or DIDN’T do yesterday:
1.go shopping ( - ) Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday.
 2.clean the house ( ? ) .............................................................................................
3.call Mary ( + ) .....................................................................................................
4.watch a film on TV ( ? ) .......................................................................................
5.visit her grandparents ( + ) ..........................................................................................
6.take them a cake ( ? ) ..................................................................................................

3. Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets: 
Last Saturday my father took (take) my friends and me to the circus. We ______________ (see) lots of things. My father ______________ (buy) some popcorn and orange juice. We _________ (eat) the popcorn and ______________ (drink) the orange juice. We ______________ (love) the funny clowns. At the circus______________ (have) a lion-tamer. The lions ______________ (make) tricks; they ______________ (stop) through hoops. A girl ______________ (call) to an elephant . We all ______________ (like)that wonderful time.

4. Write these sentences in past.
1. I watch my favourite serie on TV. ...........................................................................................
2. That boy eats an ice-cream. ...........................................................................................
3. I go to the mountain. ...........................................................................................
4. They´re in the hall. ...........................................................................................
5. Peter rides a mountain bike. ...........................................................................................
6. We buy a pair of jeans. ...........................................................................................

5. Put the following sentences in past tense. 
1.- We (buy) a new car on Tuesday.__________________________________________
2.- Mandy not (do) her homework yesterday.___________________________________
3.- When you (meet) Jane?_________________________________________________
4.- Why they (go) to London?________________________________________________
5.- I not (be) ill last month.__________________________________________________

6. Correct the mistakes in these sentences. 
1. My best friend were upset this morning. ______________________________
2. I didn’t went shopping yesterday. ______________________________
3. I feeled excited before my holiday. ______________________________
4. Was you at home yesterday? ______________________________
5. Did go they to the disco last night? ______________________________

- Board game

Compare these photographs

Use:
- There is / are
- There was / were
- There used to be
- Time expressions: In the past, In 1900, now, nowadays...
- Connectors: but, although, however, on the other hand...

Test Revision: Past simple vs. Past continuous

Past simple:
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-simple-past.php#.VHIu8PmG_-s
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-past-2
Past continuous:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/past-progressive-1
Past simple vs. past continuous:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex07
Make question for given answers:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2612

Past simple exercises (2º ESO)

- past simple verb to be: was or were
http://suz.digitaleschulebayern.de/english/grammar/was_were1.htm
- past simple regular verbs:
http://www.adelescorner.org/grammar/past_tense/past_regular.html
- past simple irregular verbs:
http://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica/PastSimpIrregthatse.htm
- past simple negative: (regular and irregular verbs)
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_negation_sentences.htm
- past simple interrogative: (regular and irregular verbs)
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/simple_past.htm

Past simple exercises

- regular verbs:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_statements.htm

- regular and irregular verbs:
 http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_statements2.htm

Exercises to review past simple, past continuous and past perfect

Revise the past simple and the past continuous in this exercise:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex07
Learn about the origins of Thanksgiving Day and revise the past simple and past perfect tenses with the following exercise:http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-pasper/exercises?ex06
Test your knowledge on past simple and past perfect tenses:http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-pasper/tests?test1http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-pasper/tests?test2

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