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Unit 5 - Session 1: We're Family

This document provides an English lesson about talking about past life events. It includes sections on getting started by discussing family backgrounds, preparing by listing common life events and tenses to discuss them in, speaking activities where students ask each other questions about 3 life events from their past and take notes, and a progress check. The goal is for students to learn to talk about past events in their lives.

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Unit 5 - Session 1: We're Family

This document provides an English lesson about talking about past life events. It includes sections on getting started by discussing family backgrounds, preparing by listing common life events and tenses to discuss them in, speaking activities where students ask each other questions about 3 life events from their past and take notes, and a progress check. The goal is for students to learn to talk about past events in their lives.

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We’re family

Unit 5 | Session 1
One amazing day
Learning objective: talk about past events in your life
Unit 5 | Session 1
One amazing day
Learning objective: talk about past events in your life

Lesson overview

1 GET STARTED: Me and my family


2 PREPARE: Life events
3 SPEAKING: My life story
4 PREPARE: My weekend
5 SPEAKING: Your amazing weekend
6 Progress check
Get started: Me and my family

• When were you born? Where


were you born?

• Do you have any ……….?


When and where were they
born?

Their baby was born


on August 25 in Miami.
PREPARE: Life events
People usually do these things when they are …
PREPARE: Life events
• be born • graduate from college
• become a grandparent • have a baby
• buy a car • learn to drive
• buy your first house or apartment • meet your future wife/husband
• get married
• get your first job • retire
• start school

1 My mom and dad __________grandparents last year when my sister_______ her


first baby.
2 My brother (not) __________ a car until he ______ his first job.
3 My cousin (not) __________ school until she was seven.
Checkpoint
1 My mom and dad became grandparents last year when my sister had her first
baby.
2 My brother (not) didn’t buy a car until he got his first job.
3 My cousin (not) didn’t start school until she was seven.

• Are the affirmative verbs regular or irregular?

• How do you form the negative form of the simple past?

• Can you form a question from the first example?


Life events in past tense

Was/ • be born • graduate from college


Graduated
were
• become a grandparent • have a baby
Became Had

• buy a car • learn to drive


Learned
Bought • buy your first house or apartment • meet your future wife/husband
Met
• get married
Retired
Got
• get your first job • retire
Started
• start school
SPEAKING: My life story
. Ask and answer questions about 3 life events from their past. Monitor, prompting the students to ask
follow-up questions and find out as much as possible about each event. Take notes, you will report.
SPEAKING: My life story

Take notes, you will report.


Progress check
Now I can ...

 talk about life events and life stages


 ask people questions about their lives.

• Complete the survey. Send your

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Unit 5 | Session 1
One amazing day
Learning objective: talk about past events in your life

Thank you!

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