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Past Simple

A special storm · Unit 2 · lesson 2

Warm-up ⛈️

storm — грозаlightning — блискавкаthunder — грімscared — наляканий

What can you see in the picture on page 26?
Do you like storms? — Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
Were you scared of storms when you were little?

Read: Venezuela’s special storm 📖

Find 3 unusual facts:

🎨 Colour:

📍 Place:

⚡ Number of lightning bolts:

What is Past Simple? ⏳

An action started and finished in the past.

past

now

The storm happened in 1595. It’s finished.

yesterdaylast weeklast yeartwo days agoin Aprilin 1595

Regular and irregular verbs

Regular: + ed

look	looked
want	wanted
happen	happened
stay	stayed
use	used
move	moved
save	saved
create	created
spot	spotted

Irregular: learn them!

see	saw
feel	felt
take	took
know	knew
mean	meant

Grammar box

+

It looked pinkish orange.

We saw an unusual storm.

–

The storms didn’t move.

I didn’t know what to do.

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Did you take any photos?

Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t.

When did that happen?

⭐ Golden rule

did / didn’t + 1st form

I didn’t saw → I didn’t see ✅

Did you went? → Did you go? ✅

🏁 Board race

see

Click the verb: 1st click — answer, 2nd click — next verb

🎮 Kahoot: Past Simple

Open kahoot.it on your phone and enter the PIN

Open Kahoot ▶

Adverbs of degree 💪 — how strong?

They go before an adjective and make it stronger: It was very hot.

quite 🙂

very / really 😮 → absolutely 🤯

very · really · quite

+ normal adjectives

hot, cold, big, strange, boring, good

It was very hot. It was quite cold.

absolutely · completely · totally

+ strong adjectives (already “very”)

boiling (= very hot, «пекельна спека»), freezing (= very cold), awesome, amazing

It was absolutely boiling!

⭐ really goes with both: really hot ✅ really boiling ✅

✅ very hot · very boring · very cold ❌ very boiling (boiling already = very hot) ❌ absolutely hot

Choose the correct option ✔️

The sand dunes are absolutely / very amazing!
Your photos are totally / quite good.
Walking in the heat without a drink is completely / very ridiculous!
The stars in the desert sky look really / totally nice.

SB p. 27 ex. 6 · Answers: absolutely · quite · completely · really

🗣️ My last weekend

Last weekend I went to ___ . I saw ___ .
It was really / absolutely ___ . I didn’t ___ .

Play Baamboozle ▶ ⚡ Past Simple Challenge ▶

Exit ticket 🎟️

Write about yesterday:

+ Yesterday I

– I didn’t

? Did you ?

Homework: learn 14 verbs · WB p. 18 · write 5 sentences “My last weekend”.