UNIT 2 – LANGUAGE FOCUS
PRONUNCIATION:
Sounds /m/ - /n/ - /ŋ/
GRAMMAR:
Present Simple indicating past
time.
Tense Revision: The Past
Simple, Past Progressive, Past
Perfect
PRONUNCIATION
Activity 1: Listen and
Repeat
/m/
/n/
/ŋ/
may
nose
wrong
make
nine
running
summer
money
bringing
home
seven
sing
small
snow
morning
PRONUNCIATION
Activity 2: Practise
1) Good morning. I want an apartment
Reading
in central London.
2) We have an inexpensive apartment in
Northend Avenue.
3) I remember meeting him on a nice
summer afternoon.
4) Mr. King is singing next door.
5) He’s holding a string in his fngers.
6) He loves spending his holidays in his
small summer house.
GRAMMAR
Activity 1: Tense
1) The Present Simple Tense indicating
Revision
past time: We can use Present Simple
Tense to tell a story happening in the past
to make the events more dramatic and
lively.
2) The Past Simple Tense: We use Simple
Past to talk about actions and situations in
the past.
3) The Past Progressive Tense: We use
Past Progressive to talk about something
which was in progress at a past time. The
action or situation had started but it had
GRAMMAR
Activity 1: Tense
Revision
4)
The Past Perfect Tense: We use Past
Perfect to talk about something which
had happened before the past time we
are thinking about.
Activity 2: Doing
Exercises
Exercise
1
Exercise 2 (see Textbook pages 30,
31)
Exercise 3
EXERCISES
The story is about a girl called Little Red
Riding Hood who (0. live) lives with her
mother. Little Red Riding Hood’s
invites
grandmother
(1. invite) __________ her to
her cottage,sets
so one fne day she (2. set)
______ offgets
to visit her. The littlewaves
girl (3. get)
______ready, (4. wave) _______ goodbye to
promises
her
mother and (5. promise) _________to be
carrie
careful.
On her arm she (6. carry) _______a
swhich (7. contain) ________a cake her
contains
basket
has baked
is
mother
(8.bake) __________specially.
It (9.
be) ___a lovely spring morning, the sun
is shine) _________and birdsare
(10.
(11.
shining
singing
is winter (12.
sing)__________, happy that the
be) ___over.
broke
1) He ________his
arm when he
was playing
____________football.
(break, play)
2) Julia wrote
_______her frst novel when she
was
_____19
years old (write, be)
was
3) I ____________on
the computer when the
working
broke
fre
______ out (work, break)
4) When it ________to rain, they
starte
were walking
___________through
the forest (start, walk)
d
5) He told
_____us about his marriage when
was
we having
____________ afternoon tea (tell,
didn’t
have)
6)was
Sorry,
Ilisten
___________ to you. I
thinking
______________about something else.
phone
(not
listen)
d
didn’t
wer but you
7)
I _______you
last night,
answer
e
____________. What ______you
_______?
doingwasn’t
(phone,
not answer, do)
didn’t
8) Mary ________________her
glasses at the
wearing
was driving
notice
time, so she _______________what
kind of
car the man ______________(not wear, not
notice, drive)
1) They (eat) everything by the time I
(arrive) at the party.
had eaten
arrived
____________________________________
2) When I (fnd) my purse, someone
(take) the money out of it.
found
had taken
____________________________________
3) By the time I (get) into town, the
shops (close).
got
had closed
____________________________________
4) When they (get) to the station, the
train (leave).
had
got
____________________________________
left
5) By the time you (get) her letter, she
(arrive) in Paris.
had arrived
got
____________________________________
6) The police (pay) no attention to
Clare’s complaint because she (phone)
them so many times before.
paid
had phoned
____________________________________
7) I (go) to the post office to ask about
my package, but they (say) that it (not
arrive) yet.
went
said
hadn’t arrived
___________________________________
8) When I (look) at the new dress for
half an hour, I (ask) how much it (cost).
cost
had
___________________________________
looked
asked
1. Make 5 sentences with
each tense: The Present
Simple indicating past
time, The Past
Progressive, The Past
Perfect.
2. Prepare for the Reading