A1 Level 2

A1 Level 2
Weekends are really fun!
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My name is Tim Robinson. It´s
time to learn how to express
past events, so let’s check how to
make affirmative, negative and
interrogative sentences based on
different activities. Then, practice
what you learn from these
activities.
Dear
apprentices
Here we go! Let’s start! Pay
attention to the following
dialogue:
Warm-up
GIRLS TIME!
Tania: Hello?
Linda: Hi, Tania! How are you?
Tania: Fine, thanks… and you?
Linda: Very good. I just talked to Claudia. She said she wants to go out sometime
to catch up. Are you free tomorrow evening?
Tania: Yeah! We can go to the mall and eat some ice cream.
Linda: Yeah, that sounds great! Let’s go to the mall. Actually, I went to the ice cream
shop last Saturday, and we had a great time, it was really fun.
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Tania: Ok, great! So let´s meet by the door number 1 on Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Linda: Yeah, Perfect!
Tania: Ok, see you tomorrow!
Linda: See you!
Friday evening…
Linda: Hi, girls!
Claudia: Hello! How are you?
Tania: I’m fine, thanks for asking. So, where do you want to go first?
Tania: Let’s go to the food court and then do some window shopping.
Linda: Great! I think I need to buy some new shoes anyway.
Linda: What would you like to eat? I think I want a cheese burger.
Claudia: I ate cheese burgers last night, I prefer fried chicken.
Tania: So, do I
Linda: I would eat some chicken too. Ok! So, three orders of fried chicken, French
fries and diet cokes coming up!
Tania: So, what did you do last weekend Claudia?
Claudia: Well, on Saturday morning I cleaned my house.
Then, in the afternoon I took a nap, but my cousin Sandra woke me up at five
o’clock.
She wanted me to go to the movies with her.
There, we met some cute guys. But I wanted to go to the ice cream shop, so they
went to the movies and we ate some sundaes.
And on Sunday, I stayed home. I watched some movies, and I did my homework.
What did you do last weekend?
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Tania: Well, I was with my boyfriend. On Saturday, my boyfriend Charlie and I dined
out. And later that evening we went to the arcade.
On Sunday, we stayed home as well. But I didn’t do any homework. In the afternoon,
we took out the karaoke and sang lots of old songs.
Linda: Oh, that sounds like a lot of fun!
Tania: Yeah, it really was!
Let´s get inside
Listen to Tania and Linda´s phone call. Then, drag and drop the numbers to the
correct place to organize the conversation.
GIRLS TIME!
Tania: Ok, great! So let´s meet by the door number 1 on Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Linda: Yeah, perfect!
Tania: Hello?
Linda: Hi, Tania! How are you?
Tania: Ok, see you tomorrow!
Linda: See you!
Tania: Yeah! We can go to the mall and eat some ice cream.
Linda: Yeah, that sounds great! Let’s go to the mall. Actually, I went to the ice cream
shop last Saturday, and we had a great time, it was really fun.
Tania: Fine, thanks… and you?
Linda: Very good. I just talked to Claudia. She said she wants to go out sometime
to catch up. Are you free tomorrow evening?
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Let´s analyze
Remember that when we want to talk about something that happens now or
happens all the time, we use the actions in one way:
I eat cheese burger.
You are a student.
He wakes me up at five o’clock.
She wants me to go to the movies with her.
It is fun to sing.
We go to the arcade.
They sing a lot of old songs.
But if we want to talk about something that already happened and referring to
past events we need to change these actions into past tense. For example:
I eat cheese burger every week.
You are a student.
He wakes me up at five o’clock every
day.
She wants me to go to the movies with
her.
It is fun to sing.
We go shopping every month.
They usually sing a lot of old songs.
I ate cheese burger last night.
You were a student.
He woke me up at five o’clock this
morning.
She wanted me to go to the movies
yesterday.
It was fun to sing last week.
We went last weekend.
They sang a lot of old songs last
Sunday.
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Let’s check what you just learned. Listen to the activities Tania and Claudia did last
weekend! Then, select a verb and drag it into the correct gap. Click on the next
link to get help with the vebs.
ACTION
ACTION IN THE PAST
(Infinitive form)
Am / is
Eat
Clean
Do
Dine
Leave
Meet
Sing
Stay
Take
Want
Watch
Go
Wake
(Past tense)
Was
Ate
Cleaned
Did
Dined
Left
Met
Sang
Stayed
Took
Wanted
Watched
Went
Woke
We can also ask questions about things that already happened, pay attention to
the order of words as it is the same you learned for present tenses before:
Were you at the party?
Was she your girlfriend in 2005?
What did you do last weekend?
Where did you go?
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Notice that, when we ask about something that already happened, we use “were”
and “was” instead of “am”, “is” or “are” and, “did” instead of “do”
PRESENT TENSE
Do
Am / Is
Are
PAST TENSE
Did
Was
Were
Notice that you can add some expressions to the sentences to refer to things that
happened already. For example:
Yesterday Last year
For two years
Last weekend
At 8:00 o’clock
Before
On Monday
For three hours
Let´s read some more examples:
We went to the ice cream shop on Saturday.
I ate cheese burgers last night.
On Sunday, I stayed at home.
On Saturday, morning I cleaned my house.
What did you do last weekend?
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Past
Yesterday
July 24th, 2013
Last week
It was 1:30pm
An hour ago
A little while ago
A long time ago
In the past
This morning
Present
Today
July 25th, 2013
This week
It is 2:30pm
now
At this moment
These days
nowadays
At this time
To transform statements into negative ones we use “wasn’t, “weren’t and “didn’t”.
Mike was at the party
Mike wasn’t (was not) at the party
We were at the party
We weren’t (were not) at the party
Andrea danced at the party
Andrea didn’t (did not) dance at the party
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Credits
Pedagogical Direction
Paul Cifuentes
Carlos Javier Amaya
Direction of Art
César Páez
ICT Leadership
Yeison Ospina
Quality management
Juan Carlos Rojas
Script Composition
Lina Váquiro
Mónica Aldana
Content Support
Mónica María Arcos Hoyos
Multimedia Development
Graphic designers
Diana Duque
Jose Mario Alzate
Programming engineers
Felipe Becerra
Voices
David Molina
Ciany Nelson
San Andrés support team
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