Monday - Talking about Anecdotes.pptx

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Monday (week 9) - English A1

Talking about Anecdotes

Class goals

• Identify and use past simple verbs and time expressions.

• Use time connectors correctly.

• Structuring simple anecdotes.

• Write and share personal anecdotes.

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Wrap up

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Class schedule

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Practice

Development

Contextualization

Grammar

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Warm-up

Click on the circle and participate in the wordwall game. Discover each verb in present form and match it with its past form.

Warm up

Anecdotes are events we tell about that have happened in the past. For this reason, to tell anecdotes it is necessary to use the simple past.

Grammar

Verb in past

Past expression

• Yesterday I studied with my best friend
• she lived in Spain in 1985
• Last week I went to the park

EXAMPLES:

Past tense expressions help us to indicate in a sentence the time in the past in which events occurred.

Grammar

Time connector

Verb in past

EXAMPLES:

• Yesterday I studied with my best friend meanwhile my brother played videogames.
• In 1990 she lived in Spain and suddenly she went to Japan.
• Last week I went to the park, thereafter I ate an ice cream.

Time connectors indicate the sequence and temporal relationship between events or actions.

Grammar

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Ending

Development

Beginning

An anecdote is made up of three key elements: beginning, development and ending.

How to tell anecdotes effectively?

Contextualization

Development

Click on the circle and watch the video by answering the questions and choosing the past tense verbs that correspond to each sentence.

Now click here and complete the crossword puzzle

Development

Let's remember a little about past tense expressions and connectors:

Practice

Click on the image. Then, play the game and answer the questions correctly to gain energy!Reach the summit 2 or answer 20 questions to win!

Now, click on the image and do the following:

• Choose a story.
• Create a commentary in which you organize the sentence of each image.
• Move the images and your comments to form an anecdote.

Example of an anecdote

Wrap up

Finally, we ate ice cream and had a great time.

A time connectorSubjectVerb in past tenseComplement

It is made up of:

Beginning

• Describe how the situation ended or how it was resolved.
• It may include a reflection or a short lesson.

Then, we played volleyball and took many pictures.

A time connectorSubjectVerb in past tenseComplement

It is made up of:

Development

• Tells the main event or what happened.
• Here the simple past is used to narrate the main action.

Last summer, my family and I went to the beach.

Then, we played volleyball and took many pictures.

Finally, we ate ice cream and had a great time.

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Last summer, my family and I went to the beach.

A time expressionSubjectVerb in past tenseComplement

It is made up of:

Beginning

• Introduce the situation or context.
• Describe who was involved, when and where the anecdote occurred.

• Did you go to the cinema?

Did + subject + INFINITIVE + C + ?

+ C

• Yesterday I didn't go to the cinema

Subject + didn't + INFINITIVE + C

• Last week he visited his grandmother
• Yesterday I went to the cinema

Reg: + edIrreg: 2nd column

Subject + V

Simple past

USE: Finished action in the past

Last summer, my family and I went to the beach.

Then, we played volleyball and took many pictures.

Finally, we ate ice cream and had a great time.

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