Past Simple and Past Continuous II

Are Teens Texting their Lives Away?

Are Teens Texting their Lives Away?
 Read the article above (click on the link) and discuss:

• Do you think texting can be an addiction? Why or why not?
• Do you think texting too much can affect your behaviour in a bad way?
• Do you think texting too much can lead to physical problems?
  

Tell the story

Describe what happens in each slide using the simple past tense. 
Please, leave audio comments. 

Wear Sunscreen

Find the words that match these definitions in the Wear Sunscreen Listening Activity

1. Lotion to protect you from the sun _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2. Piece of advice _ _ _
3. Give _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
4. Become pale; no longer with bright color _ _ _ _ _
5. Remember _ _ _ _ _ _
6. Math problema _ _ _ _ _ _  _     _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
7. Happen to you when you don’t expect it to _ _ _ _ _    _ _ _ _  
8. Not busy  _ _ _ _
9. Careless _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
10. Tolerate _ _ _    _ _    _ _ _ _
11. Clean between your teeth with a dental “string” _ _ _ _ _
12. Good things other people say about you _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
13. Bad things other people say about you _ _ _ _ _ _ _
14. Criticize _ _ _ _ _ _
15. For ever _ _ _     _ _ _ _
16. Brothers and sisters _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
17. Make the distance smaller _ _ _ _ _ _    _ _ _    _ _ _ _
18. To have love affairs _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
19. Dream _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
20. Using again _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Wear Sunscreen

Read this text and fill in the gaps while listening to the file

Play Wear Sunscreen

WEAR SUNSCREEN 

____________  and ____________  of the class of ’99.

If I ____________  offer you only one ____________    for the ____________, sunscreen would be it. 

The long term ____________   of ____________  have been ____________  by ____________  whereas the rest of my ____________  has no basis more reliable than my own meandering ___________.

I __________ dispense this _______________ now.

_______________  the _______________ and _______________of your youth; oh _______________; you will not

_______________ the _______________and _______________of your youth until they’ve faded.

But _________ me, in ___ years you’ll look back at _________ of yourself and

recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much _________ lay before

you and how _________ you really looked….

You’re _________ as _________ as you imagine. 

Don’t worry about the _________ ; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by _________ bubblegum. The real _________ in your life are apt to be things that _________ crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at ___pm on some idle _________ . 

Do one _________ everyday that _________ you. 

Sing. 

Don’t be reckless with other people’s _________ , don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. 

Floss. 

Don’t _________ your time on _________ ; sometimes you’re _________ , sometimes you’re behind_________ …the race is _________ , and in the end, it’s only with _________ . 

_________  the compliments you receive, _________ the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me _________ . 

_________  your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. 

Stretch.

Don’t feel _________ if you don’t know what you want to do with your

life…the _________ interesting people I know didn’t know at ____ what they

wanted to do with their _________ , some of the most interesting ____ year

olds I know still don’t. 

Get plenty of calcium. 

Be kind to your _________ , you’ll miss them when they’re gone. 

Maybe you’ll _________ , maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have _________ ,maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll _________ at 40, maybe you’ll _________ the funky chicken on your ___th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your _________ are half chance, so are everybody else’s. 

_________ your body, use it every way you can…don’t be _________ of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the _________ instrument you’ll ever own...

Dance…even if you have _________ to do it but in your own _________ room. 

Read the _________ , even if you don’t _________ them. 

Do NOT read _________ magazines, they will only make you feel _________ . 

Get to know your _________ , you never know when they’ll be gone for _________ . 

Be nice to your _________ ; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. 

Understand that _________ come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. _________ hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were _________ . 

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you _________ ; 

live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you _________ . 

_________ . 

Accept certain inalienable _________ , prices will _________ , politicians will philander, you too will get _________ , and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were _________ and _________ respected their elders. Respect your elders. 

Don’t expect anyone else to _________ you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never _________ when either one might run out. 

Don’t mess too much with your _________ , or by the time you're 40, it will

look ____. 

Be careful whose _________ you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, _________ over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. 

But trust me on the _________ …

Past Simple and Past Continuous I

We are going to practise the use of Simple Past and Past Continuos. You will have to create at least three comic strips and describe the sketches so as to use the Simple Past and the Past continuous tenses.

Here's an example:

Yesterday... I was reading a book to my little sister... 

when suddenly... someone knocked at the door.

This comic stip was created at www.makebeliefscomix.com, you can go there to create your own.