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Grammar Focusand Discovering grammar (5 min.)The simple past of regular verbs☞ See Grammar reference, page 102.• Tell students they will be learning how to askand answer Yes/No questions using the simplepast of regular verbs. Point out the questions andanswers in the grammar chart. Say Let’s practicereading them. First, I’ll read aloud a Yes/No question.Then the whole class will read the short answers. Gothrough the three questions in the grammar chart,then switch roles with the class. The class readsthe questions and you read the answers.• Have students work individually to complete theDiscovering grammar section. Check orally.Answer key1. did2. Do not add• Use the board to elicit other key points about thegrammar chart, such as the use of Did, instead ofthe main verb, as a past tense marker in questions.11 Practice (15 min.)A.• PAIRS. Read the instructions and call on studentsto read each question and the possible responses.Preteach vocabulary from the questionnaire:organize, studious, prepare, sociable, healthy, exercise,avoid, sweets, and junk food.• Have students work individually to completethe questionnaire. Then have them work witha partner to practice asking and answering theYes/No questions. Point out that students shouldrespond to the questions with Yes, I did or No,I didn’t. Have a pair of students model a fewquestions and answers for the class. Walk aroundto monitor as students practice.B.• GROUPS. Have pairs form a group of four tocompare their answers. Ask them to write downwho among them were the most helpful, studious,sociable, and healthy, based on the number ofchecks to the questions.• Ask volunteers to share with the class what theydiscovered in their groups.Have students complete Workbook Exercises 7–8and Grammar Builder Exercises 4–5.TEACHER’S NOTESPracticing grammar10 Practice (10 min.)A.• Read the instructions aloud. Elicit the answer tothe first item. Explain or elicit the meaningof finish.• Have students work individually. Checkanswers orally.Answer key1. Did you finish your homework last night?2. Did you watch a movie last Saturday?3. Did you call your parents this morning?4. Did you like the last Harry Potter movie?5. Did you clean your room last weekend?6. Did you text your friends yesterday?B.• PAIRS. Read the instructions and example aloud.Call on a pair to model the first two items.• Assign pairs and have students practice. Tell themto switch roles and start again when they havefinished. Walk around to monitor and help.• Check by calling on pairs to perform theexchanges for the class.Cross-curricular activity: history• Assign groups, preferably of four students each.Give each group the name of a famous person intheir country’s history that all students know well.• Tell groups that they need to write four pasttense Yes/No questions about the historicalfigure. Tell them they must use regular verbs intheir questions (not be). Tell students that twoquestions should have negative answers, andtwo should have affirmative answers. Modelby writing questions about a historical figure onthe board.• Let groups use dictionaries to look upvocabulary for their questions. As studentswork, walk around to monitor and help.• Have groups take turns standing and askingtheir questions to the class. Each student in thegroup should ask one question. He or she thencalls on the first person to raise his or her hand.If that person gives the correct answer, his orher group gets a point. If not, the group gets anegative point (–1). Keep track of points on theboard. The group with the most points wins.T46:51:31 PMPostcards_splitB_TE1_U05.indd T462/27/07 10:21:18 AM