WARM UP
Read aloud these words correctly
rent
/nt/
warned
/nd/
sing
/ŋ/
Unit 4: FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY

LESSON 2: LANGUAGE
/nt/
announcement
student
advertisement
spent
environment


/nd/

second
friend
understand
planned
grand


/ŋ/
interesting
teaching
exciting
helping
training

1. Listen and repeat
I. Pronunciation
I don’t understand what the second friend says.
It is interesting and exciting to teach English to children in disadvantaged areas.
That student didn’t listen to the announcement for the job advertisement
2. Practise saying the following sentences. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the ending sounds /nd /, /ŋ/ , /nt/
II. Grammar
IRREGULAR PAST TENSE VERBS
+ do
+ build
+ read
+ find
+ tell
+ win
+ did
+ built
+ read
+ found
+ told
+ won
Exercise 1: Rewrite these sentences
I hardly ever wear jeans to school.(yesterday)

2. My sister and I buy a lot of clothes in the summer.( last summer)

3. My father sometimes reads newspapers in bed.( last night)

4. My mother makes my bed on weekends( last Sunday)

5. I write letters to my grandparents at the weekend.
( yesterday afternoon).


-> I wore jeans to school yesterday
=> My sister and I bought a lot of clothes last summer

=> My father read newspapers in bed last night

=> My mother made my bed last Sunday


=> I wrote letters to my grandparents yesterday afternoon

The past simple vs . the past continuous with “ when” and “ while”
We use the past simple to talk about an action that interrupts it.
We use the past continuous to talk about an action in progress.
* However, we often use the the past simple with the past continuous by using “when “ or while”
When I was taking a bath, the telephone rang.
The telephone rang when I was taking a bath.
While I was taking a bath, the telephone rang.
The telephone rang while I was taking a bath.
Exercise 2: Matching and completing
1. d 2. c 3. e 4. b 5. a
Exercise 2: Matching and completing