Lesson 20 - Elephant in India

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Lesson 20 Angry elephant in India

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Today

• Angry elephant in India
• Grammar explanation
• Independent work
• Quizizz 

Goals

• You know what the XXXXX is.
• You know how to use the XXXXX in affirmative (+) sentences. 

Video

• We are going to watch a video.
• Look at the video and answer the following questions:

1. What happened in the video?
2. Do you think this should be legal?

Angry elephant in India

• What happened in the video?
• Do you think this should be legal? 

Angry elephant in India

• Take out your notebook
• Write down the missing words

Angry elephant in India

Last month, at a festival in India, there ____ four elephants and one of them _____ free. It ___ aggressive and it _______ to throw parked vehicles around. It ________ twenty-seven vehicles.

  

Two people _____ to calm it down and _____ to while sitting on the back of the animal. Luckily, the elephant ____ no one.

Angry elephant in India

Discuss with your neighbor for 5 mins.

• Which words did you both write down?
• Did you spell them the same or are there differences?
• What do you notice about these words?

Angry elephant in India

Last month, at a festival in India, there were four elephants and one of them broke free. It was aggressive and it started to throw parked vehicles around. It attacked twenty-seven vehicles.

Two people hoped to calm it down and tried to while sitting on the back of the animal. Luckily, the elephant hurt no one.

Source

Drag and drop

• You will see the words from the story.
• What are the words in the present simple?
• Drag the words to the correct past simple ending.
• Example: match -> matched = -ed

-ed

-d

-ied

irregular

were/was

broke

started

attacked

hoped

tried

hurt

Past simple form

• Add -ed: want -> wanted

• Add -d: like -> liked

• Add -ied: study -> studied

• Irregular: go -> went

Past simple to be

the verb to be has two forms in the past simple

was and were

I was

He was

She was

It was

You were

We were

They were

Past simple when

Talk about finished actions at a specific moment in the past

Signal words:

yesterday, last week, a year ago, on Tuesday, this morning,

at 5 a.m., an hour ago, etc...

Past

Present

X

Past simple examples

• Yesterday, I walked to school.
• This morning she ate breakfast.
•  We studied very hard last night.
• You ate way too much chocolate at the cinema.

• Can some of you give me a sentence?

Independent work

• You may listen to music on your laptop.
• If you have a question, raise your hand and the teacher will tell you to come to the desk.
• Work on these assignments in your notebook.
• Finished? Study the irregular verbs or British Council vocab.

• Worksheet

Goals

• You know what the XXXXX is.
• You know how to use the XXXXX in affirmative (+) sentences. 

Did we reach our goals?

• You know what the past simple is.
• You know how to use the past simple in affirmative (+) sentences. 

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Study: Irregular verbs 1-70 + British Council Vocabulary