Welcome to our 12th lesson! I hope you had enjoyed your holidays.
Today we're going to continue working with the Simple Past, but this time we're going to concentrate on the past form of Irregular verbs.
1. First, let's read this text about the island of Atlantis. What do you know about it? Use a dictionary to help you understand the text.
In this text there are examples of verbs in the past. Some end in -ed, that means that they are REGULAR VERBS, but some of them do not follow this rule and they are called IRREGULAR VERBS.
Read the information in this box:
As you can see the auxiliary DID is used in negative and interrogative sentences as well as in short answers, but what happens with the affirmative form? The verb in the affirmative form doesn't take the -ed ending, it changes its form.
THREE things may happen to the verbs:
- They stay the same in the infinitive or in the past:
cut (cortar) - cut (corté, cortamos, cortaron...)
- They change one letter:
come (venir) - came (vine, vino, vinimos...)
- They change completely:
buy (comprar) - bought (compré, compró, compramos...)
2- Copy four irregular verbs from the text:
3- Match the verbs in the infinitive with their past forms. Then copy the meaning of each verb:
4- Read the text again and answer these questions:
5- Now, read this box:
What do the expressions THERE WAS and THERE WERE mean?...
Yes...they mean HABIA o HABIAN. They are the past forms of THERE IS and THERE ARE. Do you remember them?
HOMEWORK: (Send these two activities to your teacher's mail until August, 11th. Remember that after that date, your homework will be received, but won't be corrected).
1- Use five verbs from Activity 3 and write sentences about you.
2- This is a picture of Sarah's bedroom before she moved to a new house last week. Read and complete the sentences with the correct form of THERE WAS/ WASN'T or THERE WERE/WEREN'T:
3- We're going to check the activities above next class.
