tailieunhanh - New Headway Beginner Teacher's Resource Book_5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'new headway beginner teacher's resource book_5', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Saying years was were born Past Simple - irregular verbs When s your birthday Happy Birthday Introduction to the unit rhe title of this unit is Happy Birthday and it focuses on the birth dates and lives of famous people. This s the vehicle for the presentation of was were born which is extended to general uses of the past of to be. The positive forms of Past Simple irregular verbs are also presented in a story context. Students learn how to say dates in English with focuses on months irdinal numbers and years. Skills practice is provided in the Vocabulary and reading section. Language aims Saying years The Starter section teaches students how to read dates in English. This highlights dates before 2000 . 1961 - nineteen sixty-one and the use of and in dates after 2001 . 2008 - two thousand and eight. POSSIBLE PROBLEMS How students say dates in their own language can often create problems with dates in English. Some languages divide the date differently . 1999- one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine so students need help with dividing the century and years correctly. The use of and in dates after 2001 also needs highlighting. was were The past of to be is introduced in all forms. Students first contact with the past forms is with was were born and then students move on to general uses of was were. POSSIBLE PROBLEMS was were Students usually make the switch from present of be to past relatively smoothly although they need a lot of practice in which subjects take was and which take were. Pronunciation can present a problem in that the vowels in was and were both have weak and strong forms was 9 and o and were 9 and 3 . The weak form a is in the positive and question forms and strong forms o and 3 are in negatives and short answers She was at school. She wasn t at school. Was she at school Yes she was. No she wasn t. They were at school. They weren t at school. Were they at school Yes they were. No they weren t. Ji W9Z 9t sku l Ji WDznt 9t sku l W9Z Ji 9t .