The past

Vocabulary: regular and irregular verbs
Grammar: Past simple
languaje to go: Talking about past events

A life of achievement

1. Speak to other students and find someone who:

• is an only child
• isn't married
• has go a car
• hasn't got children
• lives in a apartment
• doesn´t like chocolate
• can art
• can't play musical instrument
• enjoyed reading as a child

Example:
A:Are you an only child?
B: no, I've got two brothers.

2. Tell the class who you found for the thing in Exercise 1.
Example:
Julio is an only child. Nobody can play a musical instrument.

Reading

3. Read and answer about Oprah Winfrey. Which five things from the list in Exercise 1 are true for her?

4. Read again and complete Oprah Winfrey's lifeline with the correct years

Grammar Focus

5. Look at the examples below, Is this explanation true (T) or false (F)

We use the past simple to talk about completed actions in the past

Past simple
Regular e.g. love, work, finish, end, want, move, act, use (?) How did she start her successful career? as a child? (+) She started 'the Oprah Winfrey Show' in 1984 (-) She didn't start Angel Network, in 1984.	Irregular e.g. Be, can, leave, find, do, give What sort of life did she have She had her first talk show in 1977 Her family didn't have a lot of money

practice

7. Rewrite this text in the past simple. Begin like this:
yesterday, Karl Jones worked very hard
Karl Jones works very hard. He starts his dar early, at 5.30 a.m. He has a meeting with his directors at 10 a.m. They give him ideas for new proyects. He doesn't want to work late but he doesn't leave Until 9 a.m. And what does he do at home? More work, of course!

Get talking

8. Talk about your lifeline.
1 Draw your lifeline. Include dates but no other information
2 In pairs, ask and answer questions to guess the missing information in your lifelines.
Example
A:Did you get married in 2001?
b:No, I bought my first car
3 Tell the class something interesting about you partner
Example: she bought her fist car in 2001.