References:

Main Literature:

1. Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones with Peter Maggs and Catherine Smith. New Inside Out. Pre-intermediate. Student’s Book. Macmillan, 2012.

2. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koening and Paul Seligson. New English File. Pre-intermediate. Student’s Book. Oxford, 2010.

3. “Adventures” by Ben Wetz for Pre- intermediate. Student’s book. Oxford University Press. 2011

Additional Literature:

4. T. Aspinall, A. Capel. Pre-Intermediate. Master Class. New Edition. Oxford, 2009.

5. R.Side and G. Wellman. Grammar and Vocabulary for CA. Longman, 2009.

HAND-OUT Discipline: English as a foreign language Lexical theme : Holidays Pre-intermediate Grammatical theme: Past Simple: regular and irregular verbs Practical lesson 6 Assistant-Professor G. A. Adilova

Warming-up: Give the equivalent of the proverb in Kazakh/ Russian. Envy never has a holiday.

GRAMMAR: Past simple regular and irregular

I You He She It We They	+ stayed in a hotel. went on holiday.	- didn’t stay in a hotel. didn’tgoonholiday.	Infinitive	Past
			Work stay like study stop	worked stayed liked(just add d if verb finished in e) studied(y>i after a constant) stopped(if verb finishes in consonant-vowel-consonant, double the final consonant)
?	Did you stay in a hotel? Yes, I did. Did you go on holiday? No, I didn’t.
Use the past simple to talk about finished actions in the past. -The past simple is the same for all persons. -Use the infinitive after Did…? and didn’t for negatives an questions: Did you go to the cinema yesterday? She didn’t do homework yesterday. -To make the past simple + of regular verbs add –ed: He cleaned his room yesterday. Remember the spelling rules. -Many common verbs are irregular in + past simple, for examplego>went.

1 Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple.

Two summers ago we had a holiday in Scotland. We _________ (drive) there from London, but our car ________ (break) down on the motorway and we _______ (spend) the first night in Birmingham. When we ______(get) to Edinburgh we ____________ (not can) find a good hotel- they _________(be) at full. We __________(not know) what to do but in the end we _______________(find) a bed and breakfast and we ___________(stay) there for the week. We _____________(see) the castle, _________(go) to the Arts Festival, and we____(buy) a lot of souvenirs. We_____(want) to go to Loch Ness but we (not have) much time and it____(be) quite far away. The weather____(be) good, but it____(start) raining the day we____(leave).