Activity1 While-speaking (What happened?)

Instruction

1. Work in pairs

2. Interview your partner about the following questions.

3. Come up to present your partner’s story in front of the class.

1. Did you have any………….…experience?

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2. What did it happened?

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3. Where were you?

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4. What were you doing?

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5. Who else was with you?

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6. How did you feel?

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Text 1

Vocabulary

strange (adj.) out of the ordinary; unusual

or striking

Example: I had a strange experience last

night.

disappear (v.) to pass out of sight; vanish Example: While we were talking, he

disappeared.

experience (n.) the apprehension of an

object, thought, or emotion through the

senses or mind.

Example: Slipping at the canteen is my

most embarrassed experience.

impossible (adj.) unacceptable; intolerable

Example: It was impossible to get in

because no one knew the password.

Vocabulary: Adjective of emotion

embarrassed (adj.) feeling or showing

embarrassment

Example: I was embarrassed when I met Boy

Prakorn.

angry (adj.) Feeling or showing anger; incensed or

enraged

Example: -I feel angry with my younger sister.

excited (adj.) being in a state of excitement;

emotionally aroused; stirred.

Example: My brother was excited, when he went

rafting last month.

scared (adj.) made afraid

Example: I sometimes get scared when I see a

sneak.

bored (adj.) feeling weary because one is

unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current

activity.

Example: We get bored when we are studying

geography.

nervous (adj.) easily agitated or distressed; high-

strung or jumpy

Example: We get bored when we are studying

geography.

Structure Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense

Past simple and Past continuous

Both the past simple and the past continuous refer to completed actions in

the past.

Most of the time when we are talking about such actions, we use the past

simple. This is by far the most common way of talking about the past.

She smiled and showed me an old picture.

She said they often talk for hours!

I asked her but she didn't know anything.

The company made 100 people redundant last year.

Only use the past continuous when you want to emphasize the continuity of

the action.

She was watching TV in the living room.

He was wearing the same clothes.

I was thinking about you the other day.

Were you expecting that to happen?

When we use these two forms in the same sentence, we use the past

continuous to talk about the "background action" and the past simple to

talk about the shorter completed action.

I was cooking dinner when an old man came into the kitchen.

We talked for while and then suddenly, while we were talking, he disappeared.

He was going out to lunch when I saw him.

The company was doing well when I last visited it.

S + V2 S + was/were + V.ing

Text 3

(Text script)

Telling a story

Lucy: I had a strange experience last night, at my grandmother’s

house.

Nick: Oh yes? What happened?

Lucy: Well, I was cooking dinner when an old man came into the

kitchen…but my grandmother lives alone.

Nick: Well, I guess he was a friend.

Lucy: That’s what I thought. So, we talked for a while and then

suddenly, while we were talking, he disappeared.

Nick: But that’s important… What did you do?

Lucy: I told my grandmother. She was watching TV in the living

room.

Nick: And what did she say?

Lucy: She smiled and showed me an old picture. It was the same

man.

He was wearing the same clothes.

Nick: OK. So, who was it?

Lucy: Her husband. But he died twenty-five years ago, before I was

born!

Nick: What? That’s strange.

Lucy: The really strange thing is my grandmother didn’t mind. She

said they often talk for hours!