5TSO Unit 4 Step 3: Whodunnit?

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Step 3 Whodunnit?

Describing past situations

ex. 1, p. 189

Read the short summary of Catch Me If You Can. Then write questions to the answers below.

a ---- ?

He partied in every capital in Europe.

a Where did he party?

He partied in every capital in Europe.

b ---- ?

He had four aliases: Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams and Ringo Monjo.

b How many aliases did he have?

c He had four aliases: Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams and Ringo Monjo.

c ----?

The police called him the Skywayman.

c What did police call him?

The police called him the Skywayman.

ex. 2

Here are a few sentences from the summary in exercise 1.

e.g. He cashed over $ 2.5 million in forged checks.

The law caught up with him.

a What tense is used?

b What is the difference between the two verb forms?

ex. 2

a What tense is used? The past simple.

b What is the difference between the two verb forms?

The verb in sentence 1 is regular (cash --> cashed).

The verb in sentence 2 is irregular (catch --> caught)

What is the correct negative form of the past simple (e.g. to see)

1. I don't see
2. I don't saw
3. I didn't see
4. I didn't saw

What is the correct interrogative form of the past simple (e.g. to find)

1. Do you find?
2. Have you found?
3. Did you find?
4. Did you found?

c Do you remember how to form this tense for regular verbs? Complete the grid.

ex. 3

Complete the text using the past simple form of the verb. Mind the irregular verbs! Check the grammar in the Summary of Unit 2 (p. 93) if you are not sure.

Work together with your shoulder partner.

Take turns: A fills in the correct form for 1st verb, B for the 2nd verb etc.

Timing: 5 min.

correction: diddit

ex. 4

Read the extract of Catch Me If You Can (p. 191-192) and answer the questions. Indicate in the text where you found the answer.

a) How did Frank convince the sales representative to give him more information about the ID?

b) What information is carried on a Pan Am ID?

c) How did he resolve the problem of the missing logo and company name?

a) How did Frank convince the sales representative to give him more information about the ID?

b) What information is carried on a Pan Am ID?

c) How did he resolve the problem of the missing logo and company name?

Practice

Go to Smartschool > Engels 5TSO > Oefeningen > Unit 4: grammar

(Bookwidget on 'making questions' and past simple/past continuous)

Look at this sentence from the text.

I was wondering how to resolve the problem when a display in the window of a hobby shop caught my eye.

Ex. 7 p. 194

Decide which exercises you are going to do.

Medium level: ex. 8-9

High level: ex. 10