UNIT 4: AT SCHOOL
: Language Focus (p.44)
a) One day/I/field
buffalo/graze/tiger/come
b) It/ask/why/strong/buffalo/
my servant/and I/its master
*Check up: Use these suggestions to write completed sentences
1, The simple past tense(Thì quá khứ): dùng để diễn tả
- Một thói quen ở quá khứ
- Hành động hoàn tất vào một thời điểm xác định ở quá khứ
a/ cách chia:
(+) S + V-ed / V2 + O Last year, my family went to Nghe An.
(-) S + didn’t + V0 + O He didn’t go to school yesterday.
(?) (wh_) + did + S + V0 + O? When did they leave?
b/ V_ed (những động từ có qui tắc)
- V 1 vần, có 1 nguyên âm + 1 phụ âm : gấp đôi phụ âm +ed
Ex: stop – stopped
V 2 vần, nhấn âm 2, tận cùng = 1 nguyên âm + 1 phụ âm :
gấp đôi phụ âm +ed
Ex: admit – admitted, transmit - transmitted
- V tận cùng = phụ âm + y : bỏ y ,+ ied
Ex: try – tried, carry – carried
- V tận cùng = 1 nguyên âm + y: +ed
Ex:obey – obeyed, play – played
I. Grammar
c/ cách phát âm ED
/id/ khi ed đứng sau t, d (tiền đô)
Ex: awarded, invented
/t/ khi ed dứng sau ch , x, gh, c, f, k, p, s, sh,
(chàng xuống ghềnh có fà không phải sợ sông shâu)
Ex: looked, washed,changed
/d/ những trường hợp còn lại
Ex: received, covered
d/ Key words: last, yesterday, ago; ,once,
once upon a time (ngày xưa),
when + S + V(simple past)…
2/ Prepositions of time
In : tháng/ năm/ mùa/ buổi (note: at night)
On : ngày/ thứ/ tháng+ngày/ tháng+ngày+năm/thứ+buổi
At : giờ
Before (trước khi), after (sau khi), between….and…(giữa…và…),
from…to…(từ…đến…)
3. USED TO (thöôøng, ñaõ töøng)
Subject + used to + +V1
Duøng ñeå dieãn taû thoùi quen trong quaù khöù
hoaëc moät ñieà gì ñoù chæ toàn taïi trong quaù khöù
(hieän nay khoâng coøn nöõa)
I used to go fishing when I was a kid
(Khi coøn beù, toâi thöôøng ñi caâu caù)
They used to live in London
(Hoï ñaõ töøng soáng ôû London)
That hotel used to be a cinema
(Khaùch saïn ñoù tröôùc ñaây laø raïp chieáu phim)
Trong caâu phuû ñònh vaø caâu hoûi, ta duøng trôï ñoäng töø did
She didn’t use to like opera, but now she likes it.
(Tröôùc ñaây coâ ta khoâng thích nhaïc kòch, nhöng nay coâ ta thích noù)
Did you use to go there?
(Tröôùc ñaây anh coù thöôøng ñeán ñoù khoâng?)
II.Practice
Exercise 1. Write the past simple form of each verb.
took
went
flew
had
were/was
did
rode
ate
sat
came
Exercise 2. Complete the dialogue below. Use the past simple.
Lan: Did you eat
Nga: No, I ate noodles.
Ba: How did you get to school?
Nam:

Minh: Where
Hoa: I was at home.
d) Chi: Which subject did you have yesterday?
Ba:

rice for lunch/ dinner?
were you yesterday?
I walked to school./ I rode to school./ I went
to school by bike.
I had English./Math…
Exercise 3. Look at the pictures. Complete the dialogue. Use used to and the verbs given: live, stay, have, be.
Nga: where is it? It’s isn’t in Hanoi.
Hoa: No, it’s Hue. I used to stay there.

Exercise 3. Complete the dialogue. Use “used to” and the verbs given: live stay have be

Nga: Where is it? It isn’t Ha Noi.
Hoa: No, it’s Hue. I (0) there.
Nga: Is that you. Hoa?
Hoa: Yes. I (1) long hair.
Nga: Who is in this photo?
Hoa: That is Loan. She (2) my next-door neighbor.
Nga: Are they your parents?
Hoa : No. They’re my aunt and uncle. They (3)
in Hue, too.
used to stay
used to have
used to be
used to live
*Complete the sentences. Use the prepositions in the table.
a. I’ll see you Wednesday.
a. I’m going to Laos January.
b. I’ll see you Wednesday.
c. We must be there 8.30 and 9.15.
d. The bank closes 3.pm. If you arrive 3.pm, the bank will be closed.
e. I’ll be home seven because I want to see the seven o’clock news.
on
in
between
at
after
on
before
3. Look at the pictures then talk to your friends using “used to”
He/ride on a buffalo
ex: He used to ride on a buffalo.
They/go to school by bike
Mr Ha/come home by car
Nam and Minh/play table tennis
Nga/listen to the radio