Listen to Sean Davis (1 st ) Julia Chen (2 nd ) Roberto Moreno (3 rd )

1. Are you having a bad week? Listen to Sean Davis (1st) Julia Chen (2nd) Roberto Moreno (3rd) 1st - Listen for key words 2nd- Write down what you heard. Compare with your partner. 3rd – Listen again for more detail 4th – Write down more details. Compare with your partner. 5th – Listen for the final time 6th –Write down again. Compare with your partner.

2. Strange Things Happen! to shiver – for your body to shake involuntarily because of the cold 1. Put the story in the correct order. 2. Did you order the story correctly? It was just after midnight on November 8th last year. She was wearing a light colored raincoat and a red scarf. …on his face and he shivered. Everything felt strange. Suddenly, a young girl stepped out in front of him. Since then several people have seen her ghost here.” Frank Sharpe was driving home from work. While he was looking under the car, he felt a cold wind… He was still looking under the car when a police car pulled up. “A girl was killed in a car crash on this road in November 1965. The road was clear and he was driving carefully. The police officers weren’t surprised when Frank told them his story. …to his surprise, there was nothing there. He got out and looked under the car but… Frank tried to stop but it was too late.

3. 3. Now, underline the past simple verbs and the past progressive verbs circle Past progressive is used to give background details in a story past progressive = was/were + ing It was just after midnight on November 8th last year. Frank Sharpe was driving home from work. The road was clear and he was driving carefully. Suddenly, a young girl stepped out in front of him. She was wearing a light colored raincoat and a red scarf. Frank tried to stop but it was too late. He got out and looked under the car but, to his surprise, there was nothing there. While he was looking under the car, he felt a cold wind on his face and he shivered. Everything felt strange. He was still looking under the car when a police car pulled up. The police officers weren’t surprised when Frank told them his story. “A girl waskilled in a car crash on this road in November 1965. Since then several people have seen her ghost here.”

4. The past progressive is used to talk about an action in progress in the past “Yesterday lunch time I was eating lunch.” The action is often interrupted by a shorter action (past simple) or a time expression “Yesterday lunch time I was eating lunch and suddenly my telephone rang.” “Yesterday evening I was watching TV when somebody knocked at the door.” “While I was studying in America, I met so many great people.” “My mother found my cigarettes, while she was cleaning my bedroom.” “Last nightat 6pm I was eating dinner.” “In 2006 I was living and working in Thailand.”

5. Past simple vs. Past Continuous • “Last night at 6pm I was eating dinner.” • - i.e. dinner was in progress at around 6PM • “I ate dinner at 6pm last night.” • i.e. a shorter, completed action in the past

6. Clip 1 – Amember of the public was helping a zoo keeper in an empty cage when suddenly… (the cage opened, a gorrilla came in, screamed, hid behind the zoo keeper, slowly walked out, but laughed when they realized it was a prank). Clip 2 – People were taking a photo for a man when suddenly… (the gorilla’s cage door opened, growled, looked scared and screamed, tried to escape, but laughed when they realized it was just a prank). Clip 3 – People were watching a gorilla paint when suddenly… (turned the painting around and showed the words help, were shocked and confused, but laughed when they realized it was a prank). Clip 4 - A security guard was sleeping when suddenly… (took a mouse from a cage, hid the mouse, put the tail in the security guards mouth, were shocked and surprised, thought the mouse was in the guards mouth, but laughed when they realized it was a prank).