UNIT 2- IRELAND:

Changes

SI BADALONAENGLISH 4BTEACHER: Humbert Burcet

• VOCABULARY: • The urban landscape + Extreme adjectives

• GRAMMAR: • Past Simple & Cont. + Used to

• LISTENING & SPEAKING: Likes and dislikes• READING & WRITING: My town, then/now

• VOCABULARY: Urban landscape• GRAMMAR: Past Simple and Cont.

• DUBLIN!• Capital city of

Éire/The Republic of Ireland

APPEARANCE• What do young Londoners

look like?

BRIDGE

STREET LAMP

BLOCK OF FLATS

ADVERTISEMENT

THE SPIKE

TRAFFIC LIGHT

RAILWAY

RECYCLING BIN

MOTORWAY

PAVEMENT

GRAFFTON STREET

POST BOX

CAR PARK

FACTORY

VOCABULARY

• PHONE BOX• TRAFFIC LIGHTS• STREET LAMP• ADVERTISEMENT• RECYCLING BIN• POST BOX• PAVEMENT

2.1. URBAN LANDSCAPE

1. BRIDGE2. FACTORY3. BLOCK OF FLATS4. MOTORWAY5. CAR PARK6. RAILWAY

VOCABULARYIt’s

cold.

It’s freezing!!

It’s boiling!!

It’s hot.

Extreme1. TERRIBLE2. FANTASTIC3. ENORMOUS4. TINY5. GOURGEOUS6. FILTHY7. STARVING

Normal1. BAD2. GOOD3. BIG4. SMALL5. BEAUTIFUL6. DIRTY7. HUNGRY

2.2. ADJECTIVES

It’s boiling!!It’s freezing!!

small

tiny

BIG

HUGE

hungry

starving

Bad situation

Terriblesituation

Emigrate to the USA

Irish Potato Famine.In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. 1 million people died and a

million more emigrated from Ireland. The population fell by between 20%

and 25%.[

1845-1852

DIRTY

FILTHY

Beautiful Gourgeous

Dolores O’RiordanThe Cranberries

Andrea CorrThe Corrs

Good economy

Fantastic economy

Now... bankrupt

The Celtic TigerRapid economic growth

1995-2007

GRAMMAR was/were (not)

• NOT• (wasn’t)• (weren’t)

• I was• YOU were• HE• SHE was• IT• WE were• YOU were• THEY were

I was a journalist in 2008.

Mauricio was born in Bolivia.

You were 2nd ESO students. Before.

I wasn’t a dentist.

You weren’t at university

Navjot wasn’t in Brazil.

Question: to be (past simple)

• I was your teacher.• Was I your teacher?

• You were my student.• Were you my student?

• It was my dog.• Was it my dog?

YOUsubject

wereverb

?

GRAMMAR: Past SimpleAFFIRMATIVE

• I• YOU • HE• SHE• IT• WE• YOU• THEY

readeatdrinklistenplayspeakswimwrite

readatedranklistenedplayedspokeswamwrote

PLAYED

REGULAR IRREGULAR

GRAMMAR: Past SimpleNEGATIVE

PLAYWRITE

did not(didn’t)

• I• YOU • HE• SHE• IT• WE• YOU• THEY

I DIDN’T PLAY FOOTBALL IN THE

BREAK

*DIDN’T PLAYED *DIDN’T WROTE

GRAMMAR: Past SimpleQUESTION

• You played football.• Did you play football?

• He wrote a book.• Did he write a book?

YOUsj

PLAYverb

?DIDaux

PLAYED

PAST SIMPLEAFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE QUESTION

• I /you • He/She/It workED …did not work Did she work?• We/You/They

• USAGE 1. To talk completed actions in the past.

• CLUES! -Last night, yesterday, last year, in 2004…-When (quan): (When I was twelve I won a competition)

Yesterday I cooked dinner and I rang my best friend. However, I didn’t set the table. Did you do it? No, Dani did. When did he do it!?

PAST CONTINUOUSAFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE QUESTION

• I was working was not working Was I working?• You were working were not “ Were you working?• He/She/It was working was not “ Was he working?• We/You/They were working were not “ Were we working?

USAGE 1. An action that was in progress at a specific time in the past.

CLUES! -While (mentres): While I was working on my computer, the light went off.-All weekend…:

Last summer I was travelling around Europe. I wasn’t enjoying my holidays, it was for

work. Mates were coming for the first time. They were American. Were you working

during the whole summer?

I was sleeping...

...when my phone

rang

11pm 8am