Simple Past - Part 3 - Irregular Verbs

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Um pouco sobre os verbos irregulares do Simple Past. Uma dica de como trabalhar com esses.

Simple Past - Part 2 - Adicionar Ed

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Segue a segunda aula de Simple Past sobre como adicionar "ed" aos verbos

Simple Past - Part 1

Segue a primeira aula sobre Simple Past

The Matrix - Present x Past

2014 GUYS
Welcome to a whole new year of study and development.
How are you feeling about it?

Let´s start?
Today I bring to you a class using The Matrix to work the differences between Present and Past tenses.

1 – Identify in the video sentences using



Simple Present: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Present Continuous: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Simple Past: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Present Perfect: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2 – What´s the difference among these verb tenses? Use the video or the sentences from number 1 to justify your answer. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 – In the beginning of the video it´s possible to see a Present Continuous time marker. Which one? ____________________________________________________________
Can you give more examples? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 – Collocations:
The sentence “… when you look out the window” works on collocation using the verb “to look”. Can you give more examples?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The sentence “Like a splinter in your mind driving you mad” works the verb “to drive”. Can you give more examples? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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ANSWER KEY

1-
Simple Present-
You have the look of a man
This is not far from the truth
Do you believe in fate?
I don´t like the idea I´m not in control of my life
I know exactly what you mean


Present Continuous-
You´re feeling like Alice
He´s expecting to waku up

Simple Past
You were born into a bondage

Present Perfect
You´ve felt it your entire life
That has brought you to me
The world that has been pulled over your eyes

2-
Simple Present is used for Fact and Habits
Present Continuous for ongoing situations
Simple Past for past habits and events
Present Perfect for past actions with a relevance in the present

3-
Right now
At this moment, now, this month, this weekend, tonight

4-
Look for
Look up to
Look up
Look around

Drive you blind
Drive you crazy
Drive you deaf
Drive a car
Drive a bus

The Big Bang Theory - Simple Past and Collocations

Hey guys

After some time without video classes I bring to you a Simple Past and Collocation class.
Let´s have fun with.


1 – Observe the dialogue below where Mary Cooper narrates a story which happened to Sheldon. Watch the video and try to fill in the verbs below in the correct forms:

Leonard: Sheldon, your mom ____________ dinner.
Sheldon: I'm not hungry!
Mary Cooper: I tell you, I love the boy to death, but he has been difficult since
he _______________ out of me at the K-Mart.
Mary Cooper: I ________________ chicken.
Mary Cooper: You know, we have an Indian gentleman at our church, Dr. Patel--
It's a beautiful story. The Lord ____________ to him and ______________ him
to give us all 20% off on Lasik— You know, those that ________________ it.
Mary Cooper: He once _______________ to fight a bobcat for some licorice.
Penny: Has Shelly ever freaked out like this before?
Mary Cooper: I remember one summer when he _______________ 13, he _________________ a small nuclear reactor in the shed and ________________ everybody he was gonna provide free electricity for the whole town.
Well, the only problem was, he ______________ no what you call "fissionable" materials.
Anyway, when he ______________ on the Internets to get some, a man from the government
_______________ by and _______________ him down real gentle, and __________________ him it's against the law
Penny: What _________________?
Mary Cooper: Well, poor boy ______________ a fit. ________________ himself in his room
and _________________ a sonic death ray.
Leonard: A death ray?
Mary Cooper: That's what he ___________________ it.
_______________ even _____________ down the neighbor kids (negative). It ___________________ our dog off to no end.
Mary Cooper: __________ I pluck a nerve there? (interrogative)
Howard: Oh, yeah.

2- Text Comprehension
What did Sheldon do when he was 13?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who came to talk to him? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What did he build? Did it work? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 – What do the expressions below mean?
a- Piss off
( ) get late ( ) get angry ( ) get anxious
b- To the death
( ) never ( ) once ( ) forever
c- Slow down
( ) stop ( ) fast ( ) speed up
d- Freak out
( ) lose temper ( ) get patience ( ) get lost

4 – Do you have any fun story to share? Narrate it below and share with your class. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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ANSWER KEY SOON

Garfield - Simple Past

Read this Garfield comic strip and answer the questions below:




1 – In this comic we can see a regular situation when having pets. Which situation is this?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2 – What did Garfield do with John´s things?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3 – List below the verbs in the Simple Past.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4 – Their context is:
( ) A present event
( ) A past event
( ) A future event
5 – What is the reason for both, Garfield and John´s frustrations?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6 – What´s the conclusion that John makes?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7 – “Those things” said by John makes reference to what? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8 – The expression “I can´t help it” means what?
( ) I can´t help your wishes
( ) It´s not possible to do what you want
( ) I can´t avoid doing this
9 – The question “What happened?” doesn´t use the auxiliary “did”. Why?
( ) Because it´s wrong
( ) In spoken conversations you can omit it
( ) Because the subject/ noun is “what”

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Answer Key
1- Pets like to eat, scratch things they see.
2- He scratched the record and ate the food.
3- Scratched, Ate, Happened, Fixed, Didn´t do
4- A past event
5- Humans don´t understand cats and cats don´t understand humans
6- Although Garfied destroys everything he see, John loves him.
7- The things Garfield does, also the ones he did in the comic.
8- I can´t avoid doing this
9- Because the subject/ noun is "what"

The Pacifier - Simple Past x Past Continuous

The Pacifier
Simple Past and Past Continuous
A class by @TeacherBrunoGon

Watch the scene and complete the sentences using Simple Past or Past Continuous:




a- He ____________________________ (teach) the girls how to fight
b- While he ________________________ (read) the book, he _________________ (take care) of the baby
c- He _________________ (say) the girl to go and she ________________ (start) driving at the parking lot
d- He __________________ (make) 2 different groups of people crawl on the floor
e- He __________________ (run) and when he _______________ (enter) the classroom the girl _________________ (present) a homework.
f- He ________________ (observe) the play cast ____________________ (rehearse)
g- He ________________ (challenge) the girl to drive by back gear

Do you know how to fight? If so, what? If not, do you want to learn?
Do you know how to drive? Are you learning how to? How does it feel?

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Answer Key
a- was teaching
b- was reading - was taking care
c- said - started
d- made
e- was running - entered - was presenting
f- was observed - rehearsing
g- challenged

Summer of 69 - Simple Past

Hi guys...

After a really long time I´m kinda back here.
I´ll post a class that I created with a song.

This class is to students who want to become better users of Simple Past.

The song is: Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams



Warm-up
What is the most vivid memory you have from childhood, teenage hood, vacations, trips… How do you feel about it?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

1- Watch the video clip without sound and check the activities they did.
( ) watched movies in the car ( ) threw fruits on each other
( ) went to the beach ( ) got themselves in problems
( ) played music with the band ( ) painted the house
2- Listen to the song now and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs below:

I got my first six string
________ it at the five and dime
________ it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of 69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we _______ real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
Shoulda known we´d never get far
Oh when I look back now
That summer ________ to last forever
And if I _______ a choice
I´d always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain´t no use in complaining
When you _______ a job to do
________ my evenings down at the drive-in
And that´s when I met you
Standing on your mama´s porch
You _______ me that you´d wait forever
Oh and when you _______ my hand
I _______ that was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of 69
Man we _______ killing time
We were young and restless
We _______ to unwind
I guess nothing can last forever
And now times are changing
Look at everything that´s come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six string
I think about you wonder what ______ wrong

3- What does the author mean when he says “played till my fingers bleed”? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4- Do you think the author have a special feeling with this particular summer? Justify your answer with sentences from the song ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5- The collocation “Tried real hard” from the song means what? Can you imagine other ways to express the same idea? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6- In colloquial talks many informal words/expressions come up. Identify them and rewrite them in a formal way. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7- What does the author do to remember those days? What do you do to remember yours? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8- The expression “five and dime” refers to products sold almost without any cost. Come up with more words which express the same idea. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9- Are you the type of person who links songs to memories? Which memory have you related to a song? Write about it? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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-ANSWER KEY-
Warm Up: Personal answer

1-
Watched movies in the car
Played music with the band
Threw fruits on each other
Got themselves in problems

2-
Bought
Played
Tried
Seemed
Had
Got
Spent
Told
Held
Knew
Were
Needed
Went

3-
He was so happy he bought the guitar that he played non-stop.

4-
Yes, he does
"Those were the best days of my life"
'If I had a choice, I would always wanna be there"
"That summer seeme to last forever"

5- It means something that is tried very much
Try a lot
Give it a try
Try harder
Try once more
Keep Trying

6-
Wanna - Want to
Shoulda - Should have
Ain´t - Any negative

7-
According to the song, he plays his old guitar.
Personal answer

8-
Pretty Penny
Good bargain
Cheap
Inexpensive
Good deal
On sale

9-
Personal answers

Simple Past - Irregular Verbs List

Hi Guys
Today I have a different class for you. Today I´ll talk about the famous list of irregular verbs in the Simple Past and Past Participle. But I´ll give you a nice tip on how to work this list.
It´s a very useful way to do it.



Thank you guys for all the attention I´ve been receiving.

Present Perfect x Simple Past

Hey guys
In this video class I show you what´s the difference between Present Perfect and Simple Past. I agree that this can be confusing for latin native language students.
I call your attention to the small differences in context into these.



Exercise: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs6.htm

Simple Past - /ed/ pronunciation

Hi Guys
In this class I explain the difference in the /ed/ sound pronunciation for the Regular Simple Past. It´s a little bit theorical but it´s important. I hope this class can help you understand the sounds. Any comments, suggestions or questions: teacher.bruno.gon@gmail.com

Ola a todos
Nessa aula explico a diferença no som do /ed/ no Simple Past, é teórico esse ponto da matéria, mas é importante.

Simple Past - Spelling rules

Hi guys
As I promised, here is the video about the Spelling rules of the regular verbs. In this video I explain where we elimate letters, where we double them, where we don´t and why. And some curiosities.

Meus queridos alunos online
Como prometido no ultimo post, aqui está o video sobre as regras do Simple Past em relação aos verbos regulares. Onde tiramos letras, onde as colocamos, onde não as colocamos e por que. E duas curiosidades

Simple Past - Verbs

Hi Guys
For the first time I have topics to talk about and no video.
Well, when we study the simple past we have regular and irregular verbs. About the regular verbs there will be a video coming up explaning the spelling rules.
For the irregular verbs there isn´t any rules, we just have to study and remember them.
To help you guys here it is a list of some of them.

Pela primeira vez eu tenho um aula sem video.
Quando se estuda Simple Past, estudamos verbos regulares e irregulares. Os verbos regulares são mais simples e terá um video postado e breve. Sobre os irregulares não há regra, é apenas estudar e lembra-los. Mas aqui vai uma lista dele alguns deles para ajuda-los.

Go - Went
Do - Did
Be - Was/Were
Get - Got
Drink - Drank
Speak - Spoke
Take - Took
Have - Had
Understand - Understood
See - Saw
Say - Said
Tell - Told
Eat - Ate
Drive - Drove
Write - Wrote
Read - Read
Meet - Met

To help you guys there is a link in the "cool links" list on the left: Pronunciation online. Type the word there, listen and practice.
Para ajuda-los, há um link na lista de "cool links" na esquerda: Pronunciation online. Digite a palavra, escute e repita para praticar.
Any comments, suggestions, questions contact me: teacher.bruno.gon@gmail.com

Simple Past x Past Continuous

Hi guys
In this class I explain the difference in use between Simple Past and Past Continuous. When we use them, how we use them by giving easy examples and time lines.
Any comments, suggestions and questions: teacher.bruno.gon@gmail.com

Ola a todos
Nessa aula eu explico a diferença entre Simple Past e Past Continuous, em quais situações nós usamos.



Exercise: http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/past_simple.html
http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/past_progressive.html