Unit 19 Talking about the Past

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Unit 19 Talking about the Past(????) (Mary and
Xiaoyan had a party.) Mary ?Xiaoyan ????

• Activity 1
• Part A Fill in the blanks
• 1130, 2) wine 3) sunny 4) about 10
• oclock, 5) Polly
• Read the diary and decide true(T) or
• false(F)

(1) F 2) F 3) F 4) T 5) T 6, T
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• Language Focus
• notuntil
• They didnt turn up until 900 last night.
• I did not go to bed until 1000 last night.
• 2)a mess/ to be in a mess.
• This room is a real mess!
• My hair is a real mess.
• Your bag is in a mess.
• What happened to you?You look a mess

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Language Focus Simple past (??did) ?????(????/
?????) ???? 1, looked, cleaned, played. He asked
me a question last night. We wanted to go on
holiday last year. 2, lived, liked, They arrived
here late just now. We lived in Shenzhen last
year.
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3, studystudied , crycried, I studied English
last term. He tried a few times. She cried
yesterday. We played football yesterday. They
stayed in the hotel room that afternoon. 4,
planplanned, stopstopped, He planned to go to
the party. They stopped the work when I came in.
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• Activity 2(?????)
• talktalked 2) finishfinished
• 3) clearcleared 4) helphelped
• 5) burnburned 6) enjoyenjoyed
• 7) listenlistened 8) arrivearrived
• 9) playplayed 10) likeliked
• 11) dancedanced 12) triptripped
• 13) laughlaughed

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• Activity 4
• (?????????????)
• I closed the door.
• She answered my email yesterday.
• We helped clear up the flat.
• They cried about the lost dog.
• He agreed with me.
• They played happily all day together.
• You arrived too late for the meal.
• They shopped for clothes all day long.

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Language Focus (?????????) (??did)---(??did
not do ) I did my homework yesterday. I did not
do my homework yesterday. He studied English last
week. He did not study English last week. She did
not watch TV yesterday. They didnt come to the
party. (???be ----was/were)
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• I am a teacher.I am not a worker.
• I was a worker last year.
• I was not a teacher last year.
• 3) You are a worker.You are not a cook.
• 4) You were a student ten years ago.
• 5) You were not a worker ten years ago.
• 6) He is a cook. He is not a policeman.
• 7) He was a policeman last year.
• 8) He was not a cook last year.
• (can---could)

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• I can swim. He can not swim.
• I could swim last year.
• I could not swim ten years ago.
• He couldnt
• swim last year.
• (have ---had not/ did not have)
• I have a book. I have not a book.
• I had a book yesterday.I had not a book.
• I have lunch at home. I dont have lunch
• at home . I had lunch at home
• yesterday.I didnt have lunch at home.

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Activity 6 (??) W did it ! Tim and I announced
our engagement last night. Everyone was really
pleased. Everybody talked our wedding plans for
ages. I showed Xiaoyan my ring and she loved it!
She wanted to know all about English weddings
but I didnt know what to tell her-I tried but
theres too much to explain. Tim didnt stop
smiling all evening. He looked very happy.
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Activity 7 ????( be, ask for, arrive, wait for,
talk to, talk, decide, like, thank) David arrived
late with his friend Steve. We waited for them
for over an hour, but then decided to eat
because the food was ready. I think Xiaoyan
really liked Steve. They talked for hours about
London and Shanghai. He talked to no one else
the whole evening. He didnt talk to me at all!
At the end of the party Steve thanked Xiaoyan and
asked for her phone number.
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Activity 8 (??????) 1, Why wasnt Jane at the
party? 2, Who played the live music? 3, Where
does Tom work? 4, Why wasnt he there?
She was in Paris. Marys friends played the live
music. He works in the accounts department. He
went to visit his parents.
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Activity 9 Read the dialogue again and
underline the questions in the past that use the
following verbs (have, be, dance, meet, come) 1,
Did you have a good time last night? 2, Were they
good? 3, And did you dance? 4, Did you meet any
new people? 5, Did Tom come?
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Language Focus 1, ????????????? (did ??did
?) Did you go swimming yesterday? Yes, I did. /
No, I didnt. Did she watch television last
night? Yes, she did. / No, she didnt. Did you
have a good time? Yes, we did. / No, we didnt.
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(?be (was/were) ? ??????) Was Polly at the party?
Yes, she was. / No, she wasnt . Were they in
the restaurant? Yes, they were. / No, they
werent. 3, ??????? We cleared up this
morning. Did you have a good time last night.
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• Activity 10 (??)
• Did Mary get up early this morning?
• Did Mary and Xiaoyan clear up the
• flat this morning?
• 3) Did Polly and Franco dance together
• last night?
• 4) Did Xiaoyan talk to Steve at the party?
• 5) Did Marys friends play live music
• yesterday evening?

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Activity 13 Read and write the irregular
verbs( ?????????) 1, meetmet. 2,
bringbrought 3, telltold 4, drinkdrank 5,
fallfell 6, can---could 7, spendspent 8,
have---had 9, make---made 10, comecame 11,
go---- went
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Language Focus 1, anyone, someone, no one
(anybody, somebody, nobody) He didnt talk to
anyone else. I talked to someone. He didnt talk
to anyone. He talked to no one else the whole
evening. Did you know anyone there? Can anyone
answer the question?
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Activity 14(???????????) I had a really good
time last night. I saw my brother for the first
time for ages and met his new girlfriend. She
was really nice. We went to a pub near here for
a drink.Then they came back to my house, and
we had dinner. I told him about my new job, and
we talked for hours. They were both tired, so
they didnt stay very late.After they went, I
watched TV for a while and then phoned Tim.
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• Activity 15( ????)
• When did you do that?
• Where did you go?
• What did you do?
• How was your weekend?
• Who did you see?
• Why did you do that?
• Part B ??
• 1-d, 2-b, 3-e, 4-c, 5-f, 6-a

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Language Focus (???????????) Where did you go?
Where were you yesterday? What did you do? What
was your father last year? Who was the man in the
party? When did you do your homework? When were
you at home ? Who did you meet at the party?
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• Activity 16 (?????)
• Where did you go?
• When did you go?
• What did you do?
• Who did you see?
• What did she do?
• Where did she go?
• How did she travel?
• Why did she go there?

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• Activity 18 (??)
• They had a party last Saturday.
• Jane didnt come to their party.
• They played music for ages.
• Mary and Franco didnt dance
• together.
• 5)Everyone laughed when
• Franco fell over.
• 6) Tim cooked and Xiaoyan helped.

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Review Reminder 1, He worked They
visited the university yesterday. 2, She didnt
go to the party. We didnt like it. 3, Did you
get up early yesterday? Did he go to Beijing?
No, he didnt. Yes, he did. 4, Mary got up early
this morning. 5, I didnt see anyone there. No
one answered the phone.
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6, Xiaoyan met her friend at Toms party. I went
to Beijing last month.