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Example 2: Girls' night out

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past simple irregular verbs young adult plus elementary

In tliis example, tiic language (o be studied is presented 10 the students in a tcxt.

The scquence slarts when ihe tcacher asks the students whethcr girls in their country often go out together and where, if they do, they go. Students can distuss tliis in pairs or smali groups before reporting back to the class.

The students now look at two texts (see Figurę 3) and try to detide if they are about a night out in Rio de Janeiro, Beijing or Moscow. When they have done tliis, the teacher checks they all havc the same answer.

The magazme Marie Claire asked its wornen _;ournalists in Rio, Beijing, and Moscow to go out for the evening and then write a report.

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figurę 3: Girls' night out trom New English Fik Elementary by C Oxenden, C Latham-Koenig and P Seligson (Oxford University Press)

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The students now match ąuestions, such as Did you have a good tirne? I-Iow did you go Ilonie? What did you do? Wiat did you have to eat and drink? and What did you wear? with the womens answers, marked 1-7 in the texts. Then they fili in a chart with ticks for Sabina or Sharon, depending on whether they wore a dress, went to a bar, talked about men, went home by taxi, etc.

Their attenłion is drawn to the irregular verbs by an exercise which asks them to find the past tense forms of certain verbs (sec Figurę 4).

3 GRAMMAR past simple irregular verbs a Look at the report5 again and find the past

tense of these irregular verbs.
wear	/wo:/
go	/went/
sec ___	/sa:/
have _	/h«ed/
buy - _	iboitl
get--	/g«/
leavc ___	/lcft/
drivc____	ZdrPoW
meet ____	/met/
can	/kod/
MGURE |	: Textseard>

The phojiemic forms of these past tense verb forms are given as a back-up for those students who are eomfortable reading at least sorne phonemic symbols.

When students have identified the past tense verb forms, the teacher gets them to say them just to check that they are pronouncing them correetly. They now look at a grammar chart (see Figurę 5) before doing exercises where they fili in a short text with the correct form of the verbs be, buy, go, wear, look, baw, see, etc.

SC past simple irregular verbs

Lnfinitivc	Pas t -	Past -
go	went	didn't go
h.-ve	had	didn’f havc
ge;	gor	didiyt get
bu>	bought	didn‘t buy
)C3VC	lcft	didn’t lcavc
drivc	drove	didn't drive
meet	met	didn't mcet
see	saw	didn’t sec
wear	worc	didn't wear
do	did	didn't do

Usc the irregular past form onły m • scntenccs.

saw o film latt night.

Usc :hc mftniiive after did i dtdrt i.

Did you see u film last night? so t Dni you saw.,-.^; Kcmcmber word order - ASI (auxibary. subject, mfiniłivcj ot QUAS1 loiicst.ion word. auxiiiary, .subtcet. mltniłbe Dul you go out łan night?

Where did you go?

Ai Past ot uir? ~ could.

- = couldn\' not dfdtM-eaft ⁷ - Could YOU...' NOT fhd-yOtJ-ćtMfc-.-.?

figurę 5: Grammar chart

Students now listen to the third girl (Silvia) talking about her night out. They can then ask and tell each other about their own experiences of going out with friends, using the verbs they have been iearning.

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Example 3: Disappointment

reported speech tsenage plus intermediate

This seąuence teaches students the differences between reporting speech as it happens and how this changes when we report things that were said in the past.

We show students a picture of two young men walking down the Street. One of them has

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