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Target Language

Waiter: Welcome to Molly’s! Do you have a reservation?

Customer 1: Thank you! Yes. It’s under the name of Murphy. Ann Murphy.

Waiter: Ah. A table for three? Here’s your table. Please take a seat. Here are our menus. I’ll be back in a minute to take your order.

(5 minutes later)

Waiter: Are you ready to order or would you like a few more minutes?

Customer 1: I think we are ready, thanks. I’d like the Mixed Board.

Waiter: Any you, sir?

Customer 2: I’ll have the Bruschetta, please. On gluten-free bread.

Waiter: Good. And what can I get for you?

Customer 3: I’d like the Nachos, please.

Waiter: Would you like the meat or vegetarian option? That’s Chili Con Carne or Black Bean Chili.

Customer 3: I’d like the vegetarian Nachos, please. And could I have the sour cream on the side?

Waiter: Yes, certainly. So …I have 1 Mixed Board, 1 Bruschetta on gluten-free bread and 1 Vegetarian Nachos with sour cream on the side. Is that correct?

(customers nod)

Waiter: And can I get you something to drink?

Customer 1: We’ll have bottle of your house white wine, please.

Waiter: Wonderful. Could I get you the Two Tracks Sauvignon Blanc? It’s a New Zealand wine. Or would you prefer the Italian Pinot Grigio?

Customer 1: Ah. The Two Tracks, I think. And a jug of water, please.

Waiter: Great. I’ll be back with your drinks shortly.

British Council

F1: (phone ringing) Majestic Hotel, can I help you? 

M1: Yes, I’d like to find out about your room rates in July, please. 

F1: One moment, please. I’ll put you through to reservations. 

F2: (click) Reservations, can I help you? 

M1: Yes, I’m enquiring about room rates in July, please. 

F2: Yes, of course, sir. Do you have specific dates in mind?

M1: Yes, we’re thinking of coming up the weekend of the 6th of July and staying for about a week, going back on Saturday the 13th or Sunday the 14th. 

F2: I see, sir. And for how many people would that be? 

M1: Well, there’s myself, my wife and our two children. They’re 9 and 5. 

F2: Well, there are various options. (Typing) We could do a double for you and your wife, and a room with two singles for your children. Not adjacent though. 

M1: Is it not possible to have a family room for all of us? 

F2: Yes, that is a possibility.Just let me check those dates for you. It is a very busy time of year, as I’m sure you realise! 

M1: Yes, I appreciate that. 

F2: Mmm (typing), ah. Well, I can offer you a family room for the nights of Saturday the 6th through to the night of Thursday the 11th,but I’m afraid there are no family rooms for the second weekend. They’re all booked already, I’m afraid. 

M1: Oh dear. Er, so that would mean either leaving on Friday or moving to two rooms for the last one or two nights, would it? 

F2: Yes, I’m afraid so… but I see we do have a suite available for all the nights you’re interested in.That would give you two separate bedrooms, a sitting room, bathroom of course, and the one we have available also has a large balcony and a terrific sea view. 

M1: Oh! That sounds wonderful. But what about the price? Can you do any special deals on that? 

The Kobe Bryant story.

All right, so when I was 10 years old my mom and I were going on a trip for the weekend. I was a huge Knicks fan growing up. It was the 90s and they were actually good and that was exciting. I fell asleep the night before during the game and the internet didn’t exist yet so I didn’t have a cell phone i could check. The only option was a newspaper and we didn’t have one. So my mom fell asleep on the train and as I was sitting there kind of bored. I could see these two men sitting – I don’t know, maybe eight or so rows ahead of me – and they both had newspapers. I could tell because they were both really tall so you could kind of just see the back of their head and then this big newspaper and i decided that i was going to go ask them to borrow sports pages. I was kind of nervous about it because I was 10, but my mom was asleep so it also felt like this dangerous little activity I was going to go pursue. I think I decided that they must be athletes because they were tall ,so part of me thought ‘I’ll just tell them that I’m an athlete ,too, and then this will be fine.’ So I walked between the two of them and, uh, I think i did tap his hand um and say, ” Excuse me can I borrow the sports pages?”, and the guy on the left said to me, “Why do you want the sports pages?” And I said, ” Well because I’m a basketball player”. I’m pretty sure he laughed at that point because I was this like scrawny little girl at that point so he kind of fumbled through the newspaper and gave me the sports section. I was starting to thank him and turning to walk away and he said , “Wait, would you mind if I ask you a question?” And I said ‘ “Sure.” He said, ” Do you know who Kobe Bryant is?” I remember feeling embarrassed because I didn’t know who that is. And then he said, ” Well, come sit down sit with us for a minute, he’s going to ask you a question.” And that’s when I sat down next to Kobe Bryant! I remember he was kind of half leaning against the window, half facing me. I was between the two of them kind of looking back and forth trying to figure out what was going on. Eventually Kobe asked me if I thought that all high school athletes should go to college as opposed to going directly to the Pros. He didn’t come across as cocky and self-assured, he came across as a kid who was asking another kid what to do. I was a pretty precocious little kid so I immediately started lecturing him that everyone should go to college and that it was important for his future and his career and what if it doesn’t work out in the NBA? Then Kobe said to me that he had to decide tomorrow whether he was going to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers or not ,and then I told him that i still thought he should go to college. He takes the newspaper from me and offers to sign it and i have a copy of the picture here. It says ‘to Amy best wishes Kobe Bryant number 33 ‘and I proudly took it back to the schoolyard and showed all of my 10 year old friends who were duly impressed. This happened almost 20 years ago now and you might think that it was just some random story that happened to me at this point, but i’m now a middle school teacher and this story is like the coolest thing that’s ever happened. Whenever I retell it kids get really excited and say, ” Tell me the Kobe story again,” and it gives me a lot of credit with my students. So thanks, Kobe.

We divide the Simple Past Tense verbs into Regular and Irregular verbs to make them easier to study.

Be cautious when you pronounce these regular verbs.

The spelling of regular verbs in the Simple Past Tense

Irregular Simple Past Tense Verbs

Here are some examples of irregular verbs. There is no rule for the formation of irregular verbs. You need to memorise them!

The verb ‘to be’ in the Simple Past.

The Hare and the Tortoise

Complete the story with the past simple form of the irregular verbs. Use the table on the blog to help you. 

The Hare and the Tortoise 

One day the hare and the tortoise decided to have a race. The hare (1)_______ (know) that he (2)_________ (can) run faster than the tortoise. But the tortoise (3) _______ (be) more intelligent than the hare.’Yes, I’ll race you,’ (4)_________ (say) the clever tortoise. The tortoise (5) _____ (have) a clever plan. He (6)__________ (find) his brothers and sisters and he (7)__________ (tell) them to wait in different places along the path of the race. So they all (8)_________ (hide) behind the trees along the path. The race (9)_______ (begin)! The tortoise (10)______ (run) as fast as possible. But the hare (11) _______ (be) faster, of course. ‘This will be a very easy race’,(12)  _________ (think) the hare. So the hare (13)____________ (decide) to have a rest, and he quickly (14)_______ (fall) asleep at the side of the road. Suddenly, the hare (15)_________________ (wake up) and he (16)_________ (see) a tortoise ahead of him! ‘How did he get ahead of me?’ the hare asked himself. In fact, it (17) _________ (be) not his friend the tortoise: it (18)__________ (be) the tortoise’s sister. But to a hare, all tortoises look the same. The hare (18)_________ (run) past the tortoise easily. Soon, he (19)_____________ (can’t) see the tortoise, so he (20)__________ (sit) down and he (21)__________ (have) another rest. Then the hare (22)___________ (get up) and continued the race. But – as the hare happily (23)___________ (come) around the last corner before the finish line – his friend the tortoise crossed the line and (24)_________ (win) the race! 

Make yourself a calendar like the one below. Write down notes on what you did last week. Use your notes to write a paragraph.

Sequencing Events

When we tell a story we often use sequence words like the ones in the template below to show the order in which things happened.

Write down directions :

(a) from the school to the bank

(b) from the library to the petrol / gas station

(c) from the bank to the police station