Dictionaries
School marks
How are things at school?
Going extremes
Match the words with the pictures
Answer the questions
1. When was the last time you did something adventurous or unusual?
2. What did you do on your last holiday?
3. Would you like to try some extreme activities? Which and why?
Something went wrong
Listen, read and write the correct option
He was falling from the sky
Complete the sentences using the Past Continuous Tense
We use Past Continuous to talk about:
1. actions in progress at a specific time in the past.
The actions start before the time and finish after it:
At 3.00, he was skydiving.
2. the background situation at the time of a story:
The sun was shining.
To form Past Continuous, we use was/were and the -ing form of the verb.
Put the verbs into Past Continuous
An accident in the mountains
Complete and put in the right order
What was he doing?
Listen and choose the sport
Listen again and complete the questions and the answers
What were they doing?
Ask questions about the people
Example:
Was John climbing?
Who was fishing?
- to canoe
- to fish
- to wear helmets
- to wear life jackets
- to have a picnic
- to climb
- to have a good time
Find out!
Make the questions and ask
The tornado
Listen and mark the correct word in bold
Read and remember
We use Past Simple and Past Continuous in the same sentence to describe a past action that was interrupted by another action.
Example:
When the tornado started, mum was watching TV.
They were playing football, when the tornado started.
When the earthquake started…
Listen and write
What were the people doing?
Look and say
When the earthquake happened…
Tom ______________.
Peter and his parents __________________.
Ashley __________________.
Tim and his brother ____________________.
Complete and answer about yourself
Time expressions
Read the rule and remember
We often use time expressions to say when something happened. We use them with Past Simple when we talk about an action or situation which is finished.
in (a period): I started school in 2010.
last: They moved house last year.
yesterday: I finished the book yesterday.
on(a day or a date): They arrived in Mumbai on 24 January.
ago: She broke her arm three weeks ago.
Tick the correct word
Invent an incredible story
Look at the pictures and make up a story
Look at the pictures and make up a story
Sam Carter, 16, and Daniel Green, 17 survived a week at sea with no food and no water.
Wordlist
| 1. sail | 3. rain |
| 2. fish | 4. rescue |
Useful language
- to drift into the open sea
- to feel scared
- to climb into a fishing boat
