Работа над темой "Narrative Tenses"

Разделы: Иностранные языки

Theme of the lesson: Narrative Tenses. Music.

The aim:

  1. To revise with the students the past continuous and practice the using of narrative tenses: past simple, past continuous and past perfect.
  2. To read the extracts from Sir Paul McCartney’s life, to describe pictures and questions.
  3. To practice students’ listening and speaking habits connected with music.
  4. To teach students to love music and to know more about famous groups and singers.

Visual aids: electronic book, pictures of the members of group Beatles: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Wings and Stella McCartney, tape recorder, interactive board.

Procedure of the lesson:

  1. Organization moment.
  2. Checking up home task. Essay on the topic “My Favorite film”.
  3. Generalization of Grammar. Narrative tenses.
    A * Explain that narrative tenses mean the tenses used to tell a story in the past.
    B * Get SS to read the rules carefully and complete them.
  1. Use the past simple to talk about consecutive actions in the past.
  2. Use the past perfect to talk about something which happened before the past time we are talking about.
  3. Use the past continuous to describe to describe a longer continuous past action.

Narrative tenses: past simple, past perfect, past continuous

Use Example Notes/Problems
Use the past simple to talk about consecutive actions in the past. She bought a newspaper and then she had a coffee in a small café. (= she had a coffee after she bought the paper.)
Use the past perfect to talk about something which happened before the past time we are talking about. When she went to pay, she saw that they had made a mistake in the bill. (= they made the mistake before she paid.)
Use the past continuous to describe to describe a longer continuous past action. The sun was shining when she left the café. The sun was shining= a longer continuous action; she left= a shorter action which happens in the middle of the continuous one.

PRACTICE

Task: Read an extract from Paul McCartney’s biography. Put the verbs on the right in the Past simple, Past continuous or Past perfect.

How did you hear of John Lennon’s death?

It_________ early in the morning and it _________ be, rain
I_________ at my office when I ______ a phone call. work, get
It_________ an American journalist who_________ me that be, tell
John _________. A fan ________ him when he be killed, shoot
___________into a hotel in New York. I ________ horrified. go, be
First _________ thinking, ‘Will I be next?’ But then start
I ____________that it was the end of everything. When I ____ realize, get
Home that night I ____________ . cry

Tasks on electronic book. 

Put the verbs in the right form.

  1. Jane _________ (wait) for me when I ________ (arrive).
  2. ‘What________ (you/do) this time yesterday?’ ‘I was asleep.’
  3. How fast _________ (you/drive) when the accident _________ (happen)?
  4. We were in a very difficult position. We ______ (not/know) what to do.
  5. John ________ (take) a photograph of me while I ______ (not/look).
  6. I haven’t seen Alan for ages. When I last _______ (see) him, he _________ (try) to find a job in London.

 BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY 

  1. Do the ‘20th century pop’ quiz in pairs.
  1. Where did the pop group Abba come from?
  2. What kind of music did Bob Marley and the Wailers make famous?
  3. Which Michael Jackson album sold 28mln.copies in 1982?
  4. Which Irish group couldn’t find what they were looking for in the 1980s?
  5. Which British group do the Gallagher brothers belong to?
  6. Which British group couldn’t ‘get no satisfaction ‘ in 1960s?
  7. Which hit single made the Spice Girls famous in 1977?
  8. Which Californian group made surfing famous in the 1960s and 1970s?
  9. Which song by Los del Rio did President Clinton dance to in 1995?
  10. Who wrote the lyrics for the Beatles’ songs?

B. Talk to a partner.

  • What kinds of music do you like?
  • Who is your favorite group or singer?
  • When and where do you listen to music?
  • Do you listen to music when you study? What kind?
  • How often do you buy CDs or cassettes?

READ BETTER

A. Read some extracts from Paul McCartney’s recent biography, Many Years from Now. Match the questions to the extracts. 

  1. Are any of your lyrics about real people and events?
  2. Are you disappointed that none of your children are musicians?
  3. When did you and John begin to write songs together?
  4. How did you feel about becoming Sir Paul McCartney in 1997?
  5. When did you and John Lennon meet?
  6. Why did you decide to make your wife a member of your group Wings?

B. Read the paragraphs and number the events in chronological order.

  1. Paul met John Lennon.
  2. John Lennon’s mother died.
  3. Paul and John formed the Beatles.
  4. Paul McCartney’s mother died.
  5. Paul wrote Let it be.
  6. Paul became Sir Paul McCartney.
  7. The Beatles broke up.

LISTEN BETTER

Read the lyrics of Let it be with the Glossary, and then listen to the song. Is it positive or negative? Can you remember what made Paul McCartney write it?

Let it be

When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom let it be.
Let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken-hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
But though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.

And when the nights is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom let it be.

HOMETASK: Workbook ex. 1-2 p 54.