ESL Language

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ENGLISH IV
UNIT 5
 Unit 5
HOW DID YOU LIKE THE MOVIE?

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

1. To identify irregular verbs in past.

2. To make a distinction between regular and irregular verbs in past.
3. To express activities and events in past, using irregular and regular
verbs in past.
4. To ask Wh-questions using the auxiliary “Did”.
5. To answer Wh-questions about past events and activities un past.
6. To give opinions about events, concerts, movies or activities in past,
using present and past participles.
 FUNCTIONS CONTENT VOCABULARY GRAMMAR

-. To identify irregular verbs -. How did you like the -. What did you/she/he/they do last -. Simple Past
in past. movie? weekend/last Saturday/on your last Tense.
-. To make a distinction -. Past Events and vacations/yesterday afternoon? -. Irregular
between regular and irregular Activities in Past. -. I/She/He/They went shopping/to a Verbs.
verbs in past. -. Leisure Time concert/to the movies/went out with friends/ -. Wh- questions in
-. To express activities and Activities in Past. read a book/made breakfast/saw a Past.
events in past, using irregular -. Simple Past movie/took a shower/played a sport/cooked -. Present and Past
and regular verbs. Tense. dinner/watched a movie/cleaned the Participles.
-. To ask Wh- -. Irregular house/did the housework/wrote a paper/had
questions using the auxiliary Verbs. drinks with friends/ate out with friends.
“Did”. -. Wh- questions and -. Yesterday, the day before, the day before
-. To answer Wh- questions answers in Past. yesterday.
about past events and -. Negative -. Last night//last Monday/last week/last
activities un past. sentences. weekend/last Saturday/last month/last
-. To give opinions about -. Giving semester/last year/.
events, concerts, movies or Opinions. -. How did you like it? What did you think
activities in past, using -. Present and Past about it?
present and past participles. Participles. -. I liked it a lot/I didn’t like it very much/It
-. Time Expressions in was ok/so-so/It was/boring/exciting/
Past. interesting/frightening/I thought it was great.
-. The special effects were
exciting/boring/disappointing.
-. I was excited/bored/disappointed/
interested/frightened about the story/the
movie/the music/the special effects.
 How DID YOU LIKE THE MOVIE ?
I- VOCABULARY.

1. Look at the pictures and match the verbal expressions in past with the pictures
3
1

2 6
4 5

______ wrote a paper.

7 ______ had drinks.
______ went to movies.
______ read a book.
______ went out with friends.
______ ate out with friends.
______ went shopping
2. Complete the sentences using the verbs from the box. Some verbs can be repeated.

a. Gina _______________ a paper for her Chemistry class yesterday

morning.
b. We _____________ drinks at the disco with friends from work.
c. I ______ out with some friends last night.
d. I ________ a very interesting book last weekend.
e. Ronald and Jane ________ shopping last Saturday.
f. I ________ a very interesting book last weekend.
g. My husband and I _________ to the movies.
 II- LISTENING

1. Listen to the conversations and order the pictures from 1 to 3. (Audio CD Track 16).

2. Now, listen again and answer “T” for “True” or “F” for “False”.

a. Robert and Samara stayed home last night. _______.

b. They had a special lunch for their anniversary. _______.
c. The food was really delicious. _______.
d. The service was superb. _______.
e. Mark, Pat and Linda went to a concert last weekend. _______.
f. The movie was in 3D. _______.
g. Pat and Linda didn’t like the movie. _______.
h. The movie wasn’t boring. _______.
i. Daniel didn’t go out last weekend. _______.
j. He slept all Saturday and Sunday mornings. _______.
k. He didn’t have breakfast. _______.
l. He did the housework. ________.
m. He went to bed late on Sunday. _______.
 III- SPEAKING

Monica: Did you have a good weekend Joel?

Joel: No didn’t. I had a terrible weekend. I had to study for
an exam, so I spent the whole Saturday and Sunday
studying. How about you, Monica? What did you do?
Monica: Well, I went to the movies with my boyfriend
Carlos.
Joel: That’s great! What movie did you see?
Monica: We saw the new Avengers movie.
Joel: How did you like the movie?
Monica: It was great. The special effects were amazing. We
loved it
1. worked all day/working on the computer/to a concert/with my
sister/concert/Juanes in concert/the concert/so so/the
songs/didn’t like.

2. did the housework/cleaning the house/to a new French

restaurant/restaurant/go to/went to La Maison du Clarisse/the
food/good/prices/high/didn’t like it much.
 1. Answer the questions about the conversation above.

a. Did Joel have a good weekend? _______________________________________.

b. What did he do? _________________________________________________.
c. Did Monica have a good weekend? _____________________________________.
d. Where did she go? ________________________________________________.
e. What movie did she see? ____________________________________________.
f. Who did she go with? _____________________________________________.
g. How did she like the movie? __________________________________________.
h. Did Joel go to the movies, too? _______________________________________.
i. When did he study? ________________________________________________.
IV- GRAMMAR AND VOVABULARY Simple past tense
IRRegular verbs

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE POSITIVE SIMPLE PAST TENSE POSITIVE

STATEMENTS STATEMENTS

 I do the housework every day.  I did the housework last Saturday.

 Kate goes to the movies with her boyfriend  Kate went to the movies with her

on weekends. boyfriend last weekend.

 Bobby and I see movies in the evening.  Bobby and I saw a movie last night.

 María makes lunch every day.  María made lunch yesterday.

 Muriel and Samantha eat out every  Muriel and Samantha ate out last

weekend. weekend.

 Patrick has breakfast at 8:00 in the  Patrick had breakfast at 8:00 yesterday

morning. morning.

 Diane takes the bus home every day.  Diane took the bus home yesterday.
• Notice: Irregular verbs can have different forms in present and in past. E.g.
Write/Wrote, Sing/Sang. • Other irregular verbs are spelled the same, both in
present and in past. E.g. Read/Read (only the pronunciation is different
/rid/, /rEd/), Cut/Cut.

TIME EXPRESSIONS IN PAST

Yesterday, the day before, the day before yesterday.
Last night//last Monday/last week/last
weekend/last Saturday/last month/last
semester/last year.
 50 IRREGULAR VERBS

BASE FORM PAST TENSE

Be (am, are, is) Was/Were
Become Became
Begin Began
Bring Brought
Break Broke
Buy Bought
Come Came
Cost Cost
Cut Cut
Do Did
Drink Drank
Drive Drove
Eat Ate
 BASE FORM PAST TENSE
Fall Fell
Feel Felt
Find Found
Fight Fought
Get Got
Give Gave
Go Went
Grow Grew
Have (3rd person sing.: Has) Had
Hear Heard
Hold Held
Keep Kept
Know Knew
 BASE FORM PAST TENSE
Lead Led
Leave Left
Let Let
Make Made
Meet Met
Pay Paid
Put Put
read (pronounced /ríd/ read (pronounced /rƎd/)
Run Ran
Say Said
See Saw
Sell Sold
Send Sent
BASE FORM PAST TENSE
Set Set
Sit Sat
Speak Spoke
Stand Stood
Take Took
Teach Taught
Tell Told
Think Thought
Understand Understood
Win Won
Write Wrote
1. Complete the paragraph. Use the irregular verbs from the list above.

One day Marie ____________ (eat) some bad meat. She

____________ (feel) sick so she ____________ (go)
home and rested. Rest ____________ (not help) at all.
She just ____________ (get) worse. After several days she
called the hospital and ____________ (speak) to a nurse.
The nurse ____________ (say), “I think you have food
poisoning. You need someone to drive you to the hospital
right away.” So Maria’s sister ____________ (come) and
____________ (drive) her to the hospital.
2. Listening. Listen to Silvia talking about the things she did on her last vacations. . Write “T”
for “TRUE”, or “F” for “FALSE. Correct the “FALSE” statements. (Audio CD Track 18).

a. Silvia took vacations in January. ________.

b. She didn’t go anywhere. _________.
c. She visited relatives. _________.
d. She ate the typical food. ________.
e. She went shopping to the flea markets. ________.
f. She bought a lot of souvenirs. ________.
g. She stayed in a hotel. ________.
h. She spent one week there. ________.
 SIMPLE PAST TENSE NEGATIVE SENTENCES

 
SUBJECT
    AUXILIARY
    NOT
    VERB
    OBJECT

I did not go to the movies last

weekend.
not make breakfast yesterday.
Michael did
     
Arianna and did not cook their meals last
Richard weekend.
did not study for the exam last night.
Keiko and I

SIMPLE PAST TENSE WH- QUESTIONS

  WH- WORD   AUXILIARY   SUBJECT   VERB   OBJECT?

What did you Do last night
Where did Francisco Study last year?
When did the children play football?
Who did you live with?  

How did you like the movie?

 Asking for and Giving Opinions

 I thought it was great.

 I loved it.
 What did you think about the movie?
 I didn’t like it much.
 How did you like the movie?
 It was good.
 It was so-so.
Present Participles
 The story was fascinating. Past Participles
 I was fascinated by the story.
 The special effects were amazing.  My kids were amazed by the
 The movie was disappointing. special effects.
 They were really disappointed
 The sound effects were boring. by the story.
 I was bored during the concert.

Notice: Present participle is used to talk about the

person, thing or situation that has caused a feeling.

Notice: Past participle is used to describe how someone

feels about something.
3. Listening. Listen to these people giving opinions about movies. Fill in the blanks with the
correct participle you heard. (Audio CD Track 19).

a. Harry Potter 7 was an _____________ movie. The special effects were

___________________, but the story was ______________.
b. She was _________________ about the movie. She thought it would be
more _________________.
c. The sound track was _____________. I was really _____________
during the whole movie.
4. Choose the correct form of the participles in parentheses.

a. Thor 2 was a really (fascinated/fascinating) film.

b. My sister was very (exciting/excited) to see the movie.

c. I wasn’t very (entertaining/entertained) during the play.

d. I thought it was really (boring/bored).

5. Complete the “Review” about a movie. Use the correct Present or Past Participles from the
parentheses

Two weeks ago, I went to the movies. I saw Fast and Furious 7. I was curious to
know how they did to bring Paul Walker back to life. I was really
_____________ (surprising/surprised). The story was a little
______________ (boring/bored) for me, but I have to confess that the
special effects were really __________________
(fascinated/fascinating). I went with my husband and kids, and they were
truly _________________ (amazing/amazed) with the way they revived
the actor who died a year ago in a car crash. I don’t like this kind of films, but
this was ok. It was an ________________ (entertaining/entertained)
film.
 6. Answer the following questions. Give complete answers .

a. When were your last vacations?

___________________________________________________.
b. Did you go anywhere?
___________________________________________________.
c. Where did you go?
___________________________________________________.
d. What did you do?
___________________________________________________.
e. Did you see a movie recently?
___________________________________________________.
f. What movie did you see?
___________________________________________________.
g. How did you like it?
___________________________________________________.
h. Where did you go on your last vacations?
___________________________________________________.
i. What did you do?
___________________________________________________.
j. Did you have a good time or a bad time?
___________________________________________________.
 V. READING AND COMPREHENSION.
1. Read the following review and fill in the blanks with the expressions in bold.
Titanic: the Telegraph’s original 1997 film review
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet deliver knockout
performances and give James Cameron’s Titanic a
magical momentum

Titanic (1997), directed by James Cameron and starring

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Billy Zane. When the
great ship nears its end, in the extraordinary final scenes of
James’s Titanic , the dining-room string quartet, out on the
deck in their grey overcoats, strike up a tune called
Orpheus. It is one of a number of poignant details,
historically verified and dramatically vivid - the captain
caressing the wheel as waters engulf him, the ship’s
designer also allowing himself to be washed away with his
dream, the body of a girl in evening dress floating through
the state rooms like a drowned Ophelia.
The music’s title is fitting too for a movie that is, in a sense, about the
underworld: about a buried ship and buried history, and feelings that lie
phantoms deep. Cameron’s Titanic is the most expensive movie ever made.
On an epic scale, and three hours and 14 minutes long, it is as large and lavish
as its doomed subject. They had a three-hour movie to sell. After a journey
that had often been accompanied by a flotilla of ugly rumors, the film finally
docked in London on Tuesday, at a Royal Film Performance in front of Prince
Charles, and received a deservedly rapturous reception. For Cameron,
cheered out of the cinema, it was a personal triumph: he wrote, directed, co-
produced and co-edited the film.
Titanic is, at heart, a tender love story, wound round the tragedy
of the sinking ship. Through the memories of an ancient survivor,
which bookend the film, Cameron takes us into the romance
between Rose ( Kate Winslet ), an American girl travelling to
America to marry her hateful but loaded fiancé (Billy Zane), and a
young man, Jack ( Leonardo DiCaprio ), who has slipped on to
the boat in steerage.
In Winslet and DiCaprio, Cameron has the two most captivating young performers
around. And they deliver knockout performances, giving the film a magical
momentum. With her haughty, troubled look, Winslet’s Rose chafes against the
restrictions of her class and sex from the start, while DiCaprio’s Jack is the embodiment
of impish freedom. The scene where the two dance jigs at a lower-deck party is close to
pure joy. Cameron’s portrayal of the rich as selfish and venal is crude, but in the grace
of his two lead characters, he endorses an aristocracy of the spirit. What impresses
most at first sight is its melding of old-fashioned, rollicking adventure and romance
with more serious concerns. The movie is a ride, and not without the odd moment of
corniness. But it’s also about freedom and flight, bondage and stagnation. And most
fittingly, as a memorial itself, it’s about memory and the act of remembering.
a. Stephen Spielberg ________________ Jurassic Park.
b. J. K. Rowling ________________ all the Harry Potter books.
c. My dog died and we ____________ him in the backyard. It was a beautiful
ceremony.
d. I sometimes feel the _______________ hands of my mother when I’m
sick.
e. The ship ____________ yesterday at the Heathrow Harbor.
f. My husband just ________________ a letter from his sister in Panama.
g. Last week, I saw “The Sisterhood of the ______________ Pants”. It was a
boring film.
h. Sean _____________ a party last night.
2. Read again and answer the questions about the reading above.

a. What is the name of the movie in the review?

___________________________________________________.
b. Who were starring?
___________________________________________________.
c. What is the story about?
___________________________________________________.
d. How long is it?
___________________________________________________.
e. Where did the story take place?
___________________________________________________.
f. What did the author of the comment think about the movie?
___________________________________________________.
g. Did you see this movie?
___________________________________________________.
h. How did you like it?
___________________________________________________.
VI. WRITING AND COMPOSITION. Write a review about a movie that you saw recently. Use
Present and Past participles and past tense. Use regular and irregular verbs.

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 Name: _____________________
UNIT V
REVIEW EXERCISES I.D: __________________________.
Course: _______________________.
Do the following exercises,
and hand the pages to your teacher. Teacher: ______________________.

I. Find the simple past of the verbs in the grid.

T H O U G H T R Z S

S A T B B G B E B L

S A N G R R M A D E

X Q G X O E Q D R P

D R A N K W A T E T

I J V J E V W X W B

D A E S R S E N T L

C A U G H T N U Z E

H A D A B A T H X W
II. Complete the paragraph with the right verb from the box .
ATE MADE DRANK GAVE (2)
DREW BLEW SAT WENT (2)

Last week, it was my birthday. I __________ a party. My friends

__________ me a lot of nice presents. My mother __________ a chocolate
cake. We __________ sandwiches and pizza and we __________ coke. My
cousin that lives in England __________ an e-mail for my birthday. Then I
__________ the candles. We __________ to the garden, there, we played a
lot. We __________ On the grass, we __________ lot of pictures,
__________ songs and danced. After the party, I __________ a bath, and
__________ to sleep.
III. Fill in the blanks with the past tense.

a. Go. ___________ b. Do. ___________ c. Sleep. _________

d. Come. _________ e. Buy. ___________ f. Think. _________
g. Sell. ___________ h. Say. ___________ i. Speak. _________
j. Bring. __________ k. Write. __________ l. Read. __________
m. Swim. _________ n. Put. ___________ o. Meet. __________
p. Tell. ___________ q. See. ___________ r. Get. ___________
IV. Write the following sentences in a negative form.

a. I had a great weekend.

___________________________________________________.

b. Janice spent a lot of money in clothes.

___________________________________________________.

c. Kyle planned a beautiful party.

___________________________________________________.

d. Sean slept until noon.

___________________________________________________.