Warm up: Chatting

=> what did you do last weekend?
=> what did you watch yesterday?
=> who did you meet two days ago?

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+ Usage:
- We use the past simple to talk about completed actions.
- in the past.
- We often use specific time expressions. Such as yesterday, last month, ( three...)
week ago or in ( 1999… ) with the past simple.
+ Example: we taught English to children in a primary school last summer.

1. Circle the correct answer A, B, or C to complete each sentences.
1. Green School
vegetables for an orphanage last spring.
A. is growing
B. grew
C. grows
2. Children
plastic bottles for recycling a month ago.
A. are collecting B. collect
C. collected
3. We
English to children in a primary school last summer.
A. are teaching B. taught
C. teach
4. Our school club
gloves for old people in nursing homes last winter.
A. made
B. is making C. make
5. We
bottles to help the environment last month.
A. are reusing
B. reuse
C. reused

2. Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the given verbs.
1. Care for Animals (take)
care of thousands of homeless dogs and cats last year.
2.
teenagers (join)
Lending Hand in 2015?
3. We (help)
the elderly in a village last summer.
4. Last year, we (send)
textbooks to help children in a rural village.
5. Tom (volunteer)
to each Enlish in our village last winter.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

took
did, join
helped
sent
volunteerd

3. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs from the box.
Plant
Recycle

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

read
pick up

cook

The club members
food for pateints every Sunday.
you
those trees in the playground last moth?
Nick and his friends
rubbish on the beach now.
Tom
the plastic bottles, and now he has some nice vases.
We often
books to old people in a nursing home.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

cook
did, plant
are picking up
recycled
read

4. Write complete sentences from the prompts.
1. Last year / our club / donate / books / childen in rural areas.
2. Children / send / you thank-you cards / a week ago?
3. I / teach / two children in grade 2 / last summer.
4. Last spring / we / help / the elderly / nursing home.
5. How / you / help / people / in flooded areas / last years?
1. Last year, our club donated books to children in rural areas.
2. Did children send you thank-you cards a week ago?
3. I taught two children in grade 2 last summer.
4. Last spring, we helped the elderly in a nursing home.
5. How did you help the people in flooded areas last years?

5. Work in pairs. Tom is from the Red Cross. Look at the fact sheet and ask Tom about his
projects in 2016 and 2020.
Projects / Year
Help Lonely
People / 2016

Support Ill
People / 2020

Activities
- help 200 lonely
people
- answer calls from
lonely people
- visit museums with
them
- help ill people at
their home
- read books to ill
people

Example:
Tom: I'm from the Red Cross.
I worked on the Help Lonely
People project in 2016.
Lan: What did you do?
Tom: We helped 200 lonely people…