Make up sentences using the past simple forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. Kanat’s room is clean now.(clean it /an hour ago) He cleaned it an hour ago.

2. Aidana is not watching TV. (turn it off/ half an hour ago)

3. Talgat does not go to the gym any more. (stop/a month ago)

4. They are not in town. (leave the city/ a week ago)

5. We are eating a cake. (bake it/ half an hour ago)

6. Makset is having a party tonight. (arrange it/ two weeks ago)

7. Nurken’s house is tidy. (tidy it/ three hours ago)

 

Discuss these questions in pairs.

a) What are your earliest childhood memories? How old were you then?

b) Were you naughty as a child? What naughty things did you do?

c) Did your parents punish you? Were the punishments fair or unfair? Tell the class about when your parents punished you for something you did wrong.

d) What were your family rules when you were a child and what did those rules teach you?

 

Grammar: the present perfect tense

Look at the underlined sentences in exercise 14 and answer the questions.

1) In what tense is I shouted at her? Do we know when the action happened?

2) In what tense is He has written? Do we know when the action happened?

 

Complete the following rules about the past simple or present perfect.

Use the ____ to talk about an action or experience at a specific time in the past.

Use the ____ to talk about an action or experience in the past when the time is not important or unknown.

 

Put the verbs into the correct form in the present perfect simple.

• I (not/work) haven’t worked today.

• We (buy) ___ a new lamp.

• We (not/plan) ___ our holiday yet.

• Where (be/you) ____?

• He (write) ____ five letters.

• She (not/see) ___ him for a long time.

• (be/you) ____ at school?

• School (not/start) ____yet.

• (speak/he) ____ to his boss?

 

Put these verbs into the correct tense: the past simple or present perfect simple.

Mother: I want to prepare dinner. (you/wash) ___ the dishes yet?

Daughter: I (wash) ___ the dishes yesterday, but I (have/not) ___the time yet to do it today.

Mother: (you/do/already) ___your homework?

Daughter: No, I (come/just) ___home from school.

Mother: You (come) ___ home from school two hours ago!

Daughter: Well, but my friend Lucy (call) ___ when I (arrive) ___and I (finish/just) ___the phone call.

Mother: (you/see/not) ___Lucy at school in the morning?

Daughter: Yes, but we (have/not) ___ time to talk then.

 

Interview your classmates.

1) Have you ever won a prize?

What? What did you do?

Name: _____________________________________________

2) Have you ever been in the hospital?

Why?

Name: _____________________________________________

3) Have you ever felt very worried or scared?

About what?

Name: ___________________________________________________

4) Have you ever studied for 12 hours?

How did you feel?

Name: ___________________________________________________

5) Does anyone in your family have a special talent?

What?

Name: ______________________________________________________

6) Have you ever played a joke on someone?

Describe what happened.

Name: _____________

 

Discuss the most interesting answers with the class.

Writing: a short story

Read the following tips. There are a few things that you think about before you start writing.

Setting: Where does it take place? When does it take place?

Where:

- a big city

-Japan, the U.S.A. etc

-in the sea

When:

-In the past, present or future

-During a birthday party

-During a holiday

Characters: How do they/he/she feel? How old is he/she?

Feelings: sad, happy, nervous, excited, sick, tired, athletic etc

Appearance: fat, skinny, short, tall, handsome, cute, ugly, casual etc

Conflict/problem: caught cheating/fell into water/broke something/forgot homework

Development of the story: went to see a doctor/went to the principal/was/were punished

Solution of the problem: regretted and talked it over/got medicine/made promises

End of the story: a story may have a happy or sad ending; never leave a story unfinished.

 

2. Read the following checklist when you’ve finished your story:

1. Do all the sentences begin with a capital letter?

2. Did you put commas, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks?

3. Are you sure that there are no words missing?

4. Did you use the correct tense throughout the story?

5. Are there adjectives and adverbs to describe people/things?

Use some of these sentence starters: a couple of hours/minutes later, after a while, suddenly, just then, almost immediately, the next morning/day, eventually, at ….o’ clock, finally

Write a short story about your childhood, keeping the checklist in mind

Project work

1. Write a short paragraph comparing and contrasting your childhoods with that of your parents.

2. Write a paragraph describing yourself when you were four, nine, and eleven. Are you similar to or quite different from what you are now?

Reading: types of families