Week 5 - 18-03-2020 - Past Tenses
Section outline
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Link to the on-line session on 18-03-2020 at 10:50 - Adobe Connect (find more information in your email, if you haven't recieved one, email me, please)
My plan for the on-line lesson is to:
- check the homework from the previous lessons – present tenses and present perfect, have the copies from “Destination B2 – Present time – Unit 1” ready with the completed exercises I asked you to complete.
- answer your questions relating to present perfect
- introduce new grammar issue scheduled for this lesson – Past Tenses + short practice – please prepare the copies you have now on Moodle – Destination B2 – Past time – Unit 3
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Here you have the recording from the session at Adobe Connect on 18-03-2020. Approxamtely minute 4.
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The contents of this lesson:
Past tenses - Simple x Continuous
Comparison - Present Perfect x Past
Past Perfect
If we have time - used to (would - for the past) - not done
Information on the on-line work:
If you missed the web-meeting on Adobe Connect on Wednesday 18-03-2020, you can find the recording above - see the link: Adobe Connect - Focus on Grammar 18-03-20 - Recording
At the end of the lesson you can listen to the explanations relating to the usage of the past, you can also have a look at Destionation B2 - Unit 3 - Past Time, where there is the description of the situations in which we use the past - focus only on Past Simple, Past Continous, Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Continuous - we didn't do would, used to and be/get used to
Then have a look at the following exercises, the exercises are taken from Destionation B2 - Unit 3 - Past Time: pp. 20 and 21. Therefore, you can prepare the answers before opening the interactive versions:
Exercise A - Past Simple x Past Continuous
Exercise B - Past simple x Past Continuous
Exercise C - Past x Past Perfect
Exercise D - Past Perfect Simple x Past Perfect Continuous
Exercise E - Past mix
At the end there is one more exercise to practise the Past x Present Perfect - Exercise 1
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Materials for this particular lesson
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On-line Exercises - Follow the given order. You can access another exercise after completing the previous one.
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Multiple choice - two options.
There is a time limit of 10 minutes so please make sure you have enough time before starting the exercise.
You have got two attempts.
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Destination B2 - Unit 3 - Past Time - p. 20 - exercise B - Past Simple x Past Continuous Quiz
Put the verb in the brackets in the correct form either Past Simple or Past Continuous.
There is a time limit of 15 minutes so make sure you have enough time to complete the exercise.
You have got two attempts.
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Destination B2 - Unit 3 - Past Time - p. 20 - exercise C - Past Simple x Past Perfect Simple Quiz
Multiple Choice
Ther is a time limit of 20 minutes so make sure that you have enough time to complete the exercise.
You have got two attempts.
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Destination B2 - Unit 3 - Past Time - p. 21 - exercise D - Past Perfect Simple x Past Perfect Continuous Quiz
Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the given verbs. Decide between the Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Continous.
There is a time limit of 10 minutes so make sure that you have enough time to complete the exercise.
You have got two attempts.
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Destination B2 - Unit 3 - Past Time - exercise E - Past Mix Quiz
Multiple Choice - Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
There is a time limit of 8 minutes.
You have got two attempts.
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Exercise 1 - Past x Present Perfect Quiz
Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct form. Decide among the Present Perfect Simple, Present Perfect Continuous, Past Simple and Past Continuous.
There is a time limit of 20 minutes, so make sure you have enough time to complete the exercise.
You have got two attempts.
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