Unit Two-2024

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<p>UNIVERSIDADE EDUARDO MONDLANE</p><p>POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT</p><p>Public Administration Course – Distance learning</p><p>ENGLISH I/2024</p><p>Unit Two: Important firsts</p><p>Focus: Time phrases often used in the past: at, on, in, ago</p><p>Debate Topic: Talk about your childhood memories!</p><p>Chat Topic: Time phrases often used in the past: at, on, in, ago.</p><p>Starting up: Revision of regular and irregular verbs (We can write the infinitive of a</p><p>verb and ask students to write the past tense of it).</p><p>Grammar spot</p><p>1.Past simple</p><p>- We use the past simple to talk about a finished action or state in the past. It can be</p><p>something that happened once or many times. We often say when it happened.</p><p>- How do we form the past simple of regular?</p><p>- What are the past forms of the verb to be?</p><p>- Put the sentences below into question and negative forms</p><p>He went to live in the United States</p><p>Cookery programmes were popular in the 1930’s</p><p>-</p><p>2. Complete the phrases with in, on, at, or Ø</p><p>a) Times: ------eight o’clock, ------ 12:15 midnight.</p><p>b) Days/dates: ------Wednesday, -----New year’s, ----- June 14th</p><p>c) Months, seasons, years, decades, centuries: ------june, -----</p><p>winter,----1998. ----1990’s, ----- the 21st century</p><p>d) Phrases with last and yesterday:</p><p>I saw him --- yesterday</p><p>We arrived ----- last night</p><p>They left --- yesterday morning</p><p>2. Which of these phrases is wrong with ago?</p><p>Ten weeks ago</p><p>A long time ago</p><p>Ten thousand years ago</p><p>A few minutes ago</p><p>Years ago</p><p>The summer ago</p><p>Summary: at + time</p><p>On + day/ date</p><p>In+ month/season/year/decade/century</p><p>We don’t use time phrase with last and yesterday We</p><p>don’t use ago after specific time periods with the</p><p>PRACTICE 1 Answer the questions using the time phrases</p><p>a) When is your birthday?</p><p>b) What time does this lesson finish?</p><p>c) What time did it start?</p><p>d) When did you last watch TV?</p><p>e) Which month does it usually start to get hot in our country?</p><p>f) What time do you usually go to bed?</p><p>g) In which year were you born?</p><p>h) In which decade did your parents grow up?</p><p>i) When did your grand parents get married?</p><p>j) When is your next holiday?</p><p>Practice 2</p><p>Complete the sentences below with information about yourself</p><p>a) The last exam I took was…</p><p>b) The last time I stayed up late was….</p><p>c) The last time I lost something important was…</p><p>d) The last wedding I went to was…</p><p>e) The last time I went for a run was…</p><p>f) The last long journey I went on was…</p><p>g) The last time I went to a restaurant was…</p><p>h) The last time I sang was…</p><p>i) The last video I rented was…</p><p>j) The last cup of tea/coffee I had was…</p><p>The end</p>