Lesson: Essentials/42

Grammar

1. Fill the blanks with the past continuous:

1. When she called us we _______ (correct) our exercises.
2. The children _______ (cry) 5 minutes ago.
3. I _______ (study) Geography when you called me.
4. Lucy _______ (sing) in the garden.
5. Those girls _______ (look) for you.
6. Me and my friends _______ (watch) TV in my bedroom.
7. That man _______ (build) a doghouse.

2. Change he sentences from the simple past to the past continuous tense:

1. She walked to school
2. They played chess last night.
3. It rained a lot.
4. We wrote love poems.
5. I helped my mother with the lunch.
6. The teacher explained the lesson to the students.
7. They played a new game last weekend.

Pronunciation

Examples
dress	head
bed	many
medal	dead
fell	pen
test	nest

Vocabulary

• To build - built
• To lay - laid
• House
• Building
• Construction
• Shape
• Size
• Tall
• Short
• Huge
• Structure
• Budget

Extra Vocabulary

Construction

• Ladder
• Cement
• Cinder block
• Lumber, wood
• Brick
• Carpenter
• Crane
• Architect
• Foreman
• Blueprint
• Mason
• Steel girder
• Wheel barrow
• Jackhammer
• Earplugs
• Construction worker
• Welder
• Blow torch
• Bulldozer
• Forklift
• Steamroller
• Dump truck

Construction

Phrasal Verb

ask for something
pedir algo

• They are asking for a glass of water.
  • Eles estão pedindo um copo d'água

1. Translate the sentences into Portuguese:

1. He always asks for money on weekends.
2. They will ask for help in case they need it.

2. Translate the sentences into English:

1. O aluno está pedindo a caneta.
2. Precisamos pedir mais informações sobre esse assunto.

3. Make to sentenes using the phrasal verb ask for something:

Conversation

1. Are you interested in the construction area?
2. What´s the worst part of constructing something?
3. What´s the best part of constructing something?
4. Which do you think is worst, to construct or to remodel? Why?
5. Would you like to build a house? What would be so necessary to have in it?
6. What´s the favorite room in your house/apartment? Why?
7. What´s your favorite color for houses?
8. Do you know how to paint a wall?
9. Are you afraid of using a ladder? Why?
10. Which skill do you think you have to do a home improvement?

Travel Bites

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Prepositions

1. Look at the pictures below and write two sentences using the preposition through:

Review

1. Answer the questions using the past continuous. See the example below.

• What were you doing yesterday?
• watch a movie / friends
• I was watching a movie with my friends.

1. What was she doing yesterday? (study for the test / alone)
2. What were they doing yesterday? (buy a newspaper / get information)
3. What were you doing yesterday? (drink water / after gym)
4. What was he doing yesterday? (prepare the paper / the class)
5. What was the lady doing yesterday? (go to the beauty parlor / look beautiful)
6. What were the players doing yesterday? (practice / for the next game)
7. What was the policeman doing yesterday? (give a ticket / to the bad driver)

2. Rewrite the sentences following the model.

• The worker was feeling bad. / tired / sick
• The worker was feeling tired.
• The worker was feeling sick.

1. The architect is changing the project. / color of the house / decorating the new house
2. The workers need more bricks to continue the construction. / cinder block / cement
3. I need a ladder to fix the lamp. / the window / to reach the roof
4. The foreman has to contract new people. / to increase the productivity / extend the deadline (deadline = prazo final)
5. That crane is huge. / not safe / That dump truck
6. We´ll buy a lot of board wood to construct the dog´s house. / My neighbor / cat´s
7. The party next door is very noisy / so

3. Use the simple past or past continuous in the sentences below:

1. We _______ (live) in France when the war _______. (begin)
2. While you _______ (talk) to Jane I _______ (wait) for you.
3. She _______ (drive) to the airport when someone _______ (call) her.
4. I _______ (read) your letter when you _______ (phone).
5. When he _______ (get) up, we _______ (have) lunch.
6. We _______ (live) in Spain when we _______ (study) art.
7. I _______ (look) at that building when the architect _______. (arrived)

4. Text listening

Answers

1. The mason needs to wear the earplugs during work.
2. They need 2,000 more bricks to finish constructing the wall.
3. The engineer lost the blueprint.
4. The crane is rented until tomorrow.
5. We need the forklift to get these materials.
6. The wheel barrow is broken.
7. This cement is not the best one.

5. Read the text and answer the questions below without reading the questions:

The Car Accident

Yesterday I saw a car accident. I was standing on the corner, waiting for the green light. The other light changed from green to yellow. Then I saw a sports car. The man driving the sports car was driving very fast. He wanted to get through the yellow light but when he got closer it turned red. On the other street, a tow truck started to move forward. The driver of the sports car tried to stop but it was too late. He smashed into the side of the tow truck. The man in the sports car got out of his car very slowly. He had a cut on his head and he was stumbling around. The man in the tow truck was not hurt. He called an ambulance with his cellphone. By then a crowd was gathering. Some people were watching from distance, others were helping the injured man. Then the ambulance arrived. The paramedics put the injured man on a stretcher and drove him to the hospital.

UNKOWN WORDS:

to stand - pôr de pé; suster; sustentar; colocar; aguentar; honrar; manter-se; permanecer

to smash - esmagar; romper, quebrar; destruir (-se); amassar; falir; bater; chocar-se

to stumble - tropeçar, falhar, fracassar

to gather - reunir, recolher, colher; acumular; juntar, unir; entender

stretcher - maca

1. When did the accident happen?
2. Where did I see the accident from?
3. What did the sports car do?
4. What happened when the tow truck stared to move?
5. What was Mrs. Bells doing?
6. Did anybody get hurt?
7. Where did the injured man have to go?
8. Now it´s your turn to retell the same story but with your own words to the teacher.

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