LANGUAGE FOCUS

Unit 3

School talks

Jumbled sentence:

Make ONE sentence by using these words

can can canner

can’t a can he ?

A canner can’t can a can, can he?

Minimal pairs

bet

head

pedal

shell

net

bat

had

paddle

shall

gnat

HAVE-HAD-HAD

SHALL=WILL

Practise these sentences 1. The fat man has a red pen.

2. This handbag will be sent to Helen.

3. Sam said apples were very expensive then.

4. There’re ten pans on the shelf.

5. Ben said on a bench with a yellow cat.

6. Ann never gets bad marks in French.

Listen and choose the word you hear

1. It was said/ sad.

2. She looked for a pen / pan.

3. You have a message from Jen/ Jan.

4. She complained about the pest/ past.

THE PAST PERFECT

I went to a party last week. Tom went to the party too. Tome went home at 10:30. So, when I arrived 11 o’clock, Tom wasn’t there.

When I arrived at the party, Tom had gone home.

Uses:- Talk about thing that happens before another.Signal words: When, before, after, because, by the time…Ex: When I got home, I found that someone had broken into my flat and had stolen my fur coat. After I had finished my housework, I watched TV.- It can be considered as the past tense of the present perfect. I’m not hungry. I have just had lunch.

I wasn’t hungry. I’d just had lunch.

Formation:(+) S+ HAD+ P2+…(-) S+ HADN’T + V+ …(?) HAD+ S+ V+…?

Use the verbs in brackets in the past perfect.

1. Why did Tom’s mother get angry with him?

Because he( break) her favorite vase.

had broken

2. When did you watch TV last night?

When I (do) all my homework.

had done

3.How did they like our city?

They said it was the loveliest city they ever (see).

had ever seen

4. It rained yesterday after it( dry) for months.

had dried

Complete these sentences1. The house was very quite when I got home.

Everybody……………………………..

2. My best friend, Kevin, was no longer there.

He ……………………………………………..

3. Tom wasn’t at home when I arrived. He………………………………………………

4. Bill no longer had his car.

He …………………………………………......

The simple past and past perfect

Simple Past Past Perfect Simple

some time in the pastExample:

Jane got up at seven. She opened her birthday presents and then the whole family went to the zoo.

before/up to a certain time in the pastExample:

Before her sixth birthday, Jane had never been to the zoo.

Signal Words

Simple Past Past Perfect Simple

first

then

already

up to then

before that day

After S+V

Exercise 2- page 40

1. We just (finish) dinner when they (come).

2. He seldom (travel) by bicycle before he (go) to Vietnam.

3. Ann (go) to get the carpet for the room but someone already (take) it.

4. You (manage) to see the Director, or he (go) out by the time you (get) there?

5. He just (get) home when you (phone). He (be) in New York.

had just finished/ came

went/ had already taken

had seldom traveled/ went

Did …manage/ had gone/ got

had just gone/ phone/ was

Homework:

Read the story in page 40 and find five mistakes to correct.