Gifts from a trip

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Tom's messageListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9Past or now?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find the past formsGrammar exercise
11. 11Irregular verbs in the pastGrammar rule
12. 12Rosa's postcardGrammar exercise
13. 13Say it right: past formsSpeaking practice
14. 14Show and tell: my souvenirSpeaking practice
15. 15Let's discussDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: find the mistakeGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a souvenir I loveDiscussion

Words

• souvenir/ˌsuːvəˈnɪr/

  something you buy or keep to remember a place or a trip

• bring back/ˌbrɪŋ ˈbæk/

  to bring something with you when you come home from a trip (past: brought back)

• pack/pæk/

  to put your things in a bag or a suitcase for a trip

• local/ˈloʊkl/

  from the place where you are, or made there

• collect/kəˈlekt/

  to get things of one kind and keep them together, as a hobby

• wrap/ræp/

  to cover something with paper or cloth

• legend/ˈledʒənd/

  a story that people tell for many years, but that may not be true

• against the law/əˈɡenst ðə ˈlɔː/

  not allowed by the law

• fine/faɪn/

  money you have to pay because you broke a rule or a law

• memory/ˈmeməri/

  something you remember from the past (plural: memories)

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about trips.

1. When did you last take a trip? Where did you go?
2. Do you like shopping when you are on vacation?
3. What can tourists buy in your town or country?

Grammar rule

Irregular verbs in the past

Irregular verbs

Regular verbs take -ed in the past (walked, loved, learned). Many common verbs are irregular: they have their own past form.

Verb	Past	Verb	Past	Verb	Past
go	went	buy	bought	take	took
find	found	tell	told	send	sent
spend	spent	make	made	bring	brought
see	saw	eat	ate	lose	lost

Negatives and questions: did + the base form

• I didn't buy any souvenirs. (not didn't bought)
• Did you take any photos? Yes, I did. / No, I didn't.
• What did you bring back? (not What did you brought back?)

was and were don't use did: Was it expensive? It wasn't cheap.