Past Simple Bookworms

BOOKWORMS

Module 2a

So what is the topic of our lesson

today?

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(

People who read a lot of books)

•Vocabulary: related to literature genre
•Reading & Listening: fiction’s great names
•Grammar: past simple (affirmative)

OUR OBJECTIVES FOR TODAY ARE:

LITERARY GENRES

 comedy

 Adventure

 Science fiction

 Drama

 Mystery

 Humorous story

 Biography

 Novel

 Legend

 Fairy tale

 history

TRANSLATE THE WORDS

 neat appearance (exp): to be clean and dressed well

 obsession (n): when you think of something all the time

 investigations (n): processes to find the answers to a crime or a

mystery

 at first glance (exp): the first time you look at sb/sth

 inspired (v): gave the idea to create sth

 brilliant (adj): very clever or good at what you do

 mysterious cases (exp): very difficult crimes to solve

 cape (n): a piece of clothing you wear over your shoulders

 magnifying glass (n): a piece of glass that makes things seem

bigger when you look through it

 imagination (n): ability to form ideas in your mind of new or

exciting things

WHO ARE THE AUTHORS

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CHARACTERS IN THE

PICTURES. WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?

WHO…

1. Solves crimes with the partner?

2. Always wants to be neat and tidy?

3. Doesn’t look like a detective?

4. Wrote adventure novels?

5. Travels in a submarine?

SYNONYMS

 well known

 unusual

 Amazing

 clever

 ordinary

 loyal

―strange
― intelligent
― extraordinary
― famous
― faithful
― typical

PAST SIMPLE

(THINGS THAT HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED!)

REGULAR VERBS

I walk to school I walked to school
I jump on my bed I jumped on my bed
I like it I liked it

Can you see how we have changed the verbs?

ADD
“ED”

PAST SIMPLE

(THINGS THAT HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED!)

IRREGULAR VERBS

 I go to school I went to school

 I write a letter I wrote a letter

 with irregular verbs: 2nd column of the table of

the irregular verbs

 yesterday,

 last year (week, month)

 a year ago (month, week, day),

 long ago

 during the

FIND IN THE TEXT:

 Regular verbs:
helped, smoked, created, appeared loved, tried,

etc.

 Irregular verbs:

 was, wore, could, sent, wrote, caught, etc