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Môn học: Tiếng Anh Căn Bản 4

Unit 6: Past lives

Topic 1: Famous face

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1 Hello class. Welcome all of you to Famous faces – lesson 6a.

2 In this lesson, you will learn some new words about time expressions before reading
an article about famous faces in the history and answer questions. You will also learn
about Past simple and regular Verbs in the Grammar part. For pronunciation, you will
learn how to pronounce -ed ending. Finally, you will talk about family members’
history in the Speaking part.

3 In my hand now, it’s a 50 thousand note. Do you know which famous face is on this
note?

The answer is Uncle Ho. Who is he? Is he a king? A president?

He was our first president.

We’re going to read an article about faces and places on money.

4 Before you read, there are some new words in the article you need to know.

First of all, revolution (paragraph 1) means an attempt, by a large number of people,

to change the government of a country, especially by violent action.

5 Second, currency (paragraph 2) means the system of money that a country uses. For
example, VN đồng, US dollar.

6 The third word, ‘instead’ means in the place of somebody/something. In this photo,
instead going on the road most people choose, this man chooses the other one.

7 Now read and match the paragraphs (1–3) with the pictures (a–c).

8 OK, now read the article again and mark these statements true (T) or false (F).

1 George Washington was an American president.

 2 His face is on every ten-dollar note.

3 Euro notes have famous faces on them.

4 Some euro notes have pictures of cities.

5 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were artists.

6 Their faces are on different Mexican notes.

9 Let’s check answers.

1. T – look at paragraph 1, line 1.

George Washington was the first president of the United States of America.

2. F – Look at paragraph 1, the last line.

Now his face is on the US one - dollar note and it is famous around the world.

3. F – Look at paragraph 2, line 2 and 3

The new notes were different from the traditional money because there weren’t
any famous people on the notes.

4. F – Look at paragraph 2, the last sentence

Instead, there were pictures of different types of buildings from different times
and faces across Europe.

5. T – Look at paragraph 3, the first 2 sentences.

Frida Kahlo painted and studied art when she was young. On August 21, 1929,
she married the artist Diego Rivera and they lived and worked in Mexico City.

6. F – Look at paragraph 3, the last sentence.

Today, Frida and Diego’s faces are on the Mexican 500 - peso note.

10 Let’s move to the next part of our lesson today: Grammar : was and were.
 Look at the Grammar box and read the sentences again.

Answer the questions.

1. Are the sentences about the past or the present?

We can see that these people lived and died in the past, so all of the sentences talk
about the past.
2 What is the infinitive form of the verbs in bold?

The infinitive form of the verb is ‘to be’.

3 Which form do we use for you/they/we?

We use ‘were’

4 Which form do we use for I/he/she/it?

We use ‘was’

11 Look at this table, we can see that in affirmative sentences, we use ‘was’ for singular
subjects like ‘I, she, he, it and singular nouns, but we use ‘were’ for plural subjects like
‘we, you, they, plural nouns’.

In negative sentences, we add ‘not’ after ‘was’ and ‘were’, so we have ‘was not ‘ and
‘were not’. The contracted forms are ‘wasn’t and weren’t’

In questions, we just move ‘was’ and ‘were’ before the subject, like these examples.

Was Lisa at work yesterday?

Where was the party?

The short answers will be: Yes, subject + was / were

 Or No, subject + wasn’t / weren’t

12 Let’s move to the exercise now. Choose the correct options to complete the text about
Queen Elizabeth.

1. She – so the answer is ‘was’.

2. She – so the answer is ‘was’.

3. ‘nine countries’ – so the answer is ‘were’.

4. ‘the Queen’s face’ – so the answer is wasn’t.

5. ‘any happy faces’ – so the answer is weren’t.

6. ‘a happy face’ – so the answer is wasn’t.

13 To talk about past events, we usually have time expressions such as ‘yesterday’ or
‘ago’ or ‘last night, last month, last year’

In this exercise, you have to number these expressions in order from past to present.

Number 1 is already done as an example.

Can you do it now?

Let’s check answers:

2g, 3c, 4d, 5a, 6j, 7i, 8k, 9e, 10b, 11h

14 In this exercise, you have to write questions using ‘was’ and were.

Remember to put ‘was’ and ‘were’ before the subject of the sentence.

The answers are following:

1 When were your grandparents born?

2 When was your last holiday?

3 Where were you on January 1st this year?

4 What month were you born in?

5 Who were some famous people in the twentieth century?

15 So, we know that verb ‘to be’ in the past simple is was and were, what about other
action verbs?

Look at the sentences in this box.

What do we usually add to regular verbs to make the past simple?

We add ‘ed’.

What is the difference about the verbs live, study and travel?

Live ends in -e, so we only add -d.

Study ends in -y and the y changes to i then we add -ed.

Travel doubles the l.

OK, so the rule is that usually we add ‘ed’ after action verbs to make the past simple
form.

E.g: wish -> wished, enter -> entered

But with verbs ending in ‘e’ like ‘live’ or ‘smile’ or ‘bake’, just add ‘d’

E.g: like -> liked, smile -> smiled, bake -> baked

With verbs ending in a consonant followed by ‘y’ like ‘study’, or ‘carry’, we change
‘y’ into ‘I’ and and ‘ed’

E.g: study -> studied, carry -> carried

With verbs ending in a vowel followed by ‘y’, we simply add -ed with no changes.

E.g: play → played, stay → stayed

With one – syllable verbs ending with a consonant and before it is a vowel, we double
the last consonant and add ‘ed’.
 For example: stop -> stopped, plan -> planned

16 Now complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs.

(pause)

Let’s check the answers:

1. Live -> lived

2. Study -> studied

3. Paint -> painted

4. Die -> died

5. Travel -> travelled

6. Work -> worked

7. Finish -> finished

8. Start -> started

17 Alright, let’s move to Pronunciation of ‘ed’.

Sometimes -ed adds an extra syllable to verbs in the past simple. First, listen to these
regular verbs and write the number of syllables.

So, we can see that, with verbs ending with the ‘t’ or ‘d’ sound, we we add ‘ed’, it
becomes ‘tid’ or ‘did’,

For example, want -> wanted, need -> needed.

So it increases the number of syllables of the verbs.

With other verbs ending with the sounds of ‘/p/, /k/, /f/, /s/, /ʃ/, /tʃ/, we add ‘t’ sound.
It’s very light, and it doesn’t add any syllables to the verbs.

For example, stop -> stopped, wash -> washed

Cook -> cooked, laugh -> laughed, kiss -> kissed,

 Watch -> watched.

Now listen again and repeat.

18 Now, write five sentences about someone’s life (e.g. someone in your family or a
famous person).

These are questions for you to get ideas.

1. When was he / she born?

2. Where was he /she born?

3. When he/ she was young, what did he / she do after class?

4. When did he/ she get married?

5. What did he/ she do when he / she was 20 years old?

18 This is what we have learnt today. Thank you for your attention and good bye.