First meetings Vocabulary relationships (1) Grammar

you/we/they +were+ verb+ing
NEGATIVE
I/he/she/it + wasn’t+verb+ing
you/we/they +weren’t+verb+ing

2. 
   Checkin G2.2 pl22
   

3. 
   R2.3. P. Listen and practise.
   

t ravelling back from China /was/woz/ travelling back from China /was /wsz/ travelling back from China and we met on the plane.

4. 
   a) Hilary is talking about how she met Ken. Choose the correct verb form.
   

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  I first met/wasmeeting Ken when we waited/were waiting in a supermarket queue.-met/were waiting
  
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  It rained/was raining so he offered/was offering me a lift home,
  

-was raining/offered

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  While we drove/were driving to my flat, he gave/lazgiving me his phone number.-were driving/ gave.
  
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  I saw/was seeing him in the supermarket again a few days later.-saw
  

2. 
   Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or Past Continuous and complete Hilary’s story.
   

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  He was talking to a friend and he seen’t me
  
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  So I was leaving while they wait to pay.
  
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  I was walking home when a car stop next to me. It was him.
  
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  I invited him to dinner-and that was 20 years ago!
  

2. 
   R2.4Listen and check,
   

VocabularyRelationships (1)

5. 
   a)Tick the phrases you know. Then do the exercise in V2.2p121.
   

go out with someone get engaged to someone ask someone out go on a date get married to someone fall in love with someone meet someone for the first time break up with someone.

2. 
   Work in pairs. Put the phrases in 5a) in order. There is more than one possible order.
   

Listening and Grammar

6. 
   a) R2.5 Liam is talking about how he met Jenny. Listen and answer these questions.
   

1. 
   Was Jenny at Ben’s birthday party?
   
2. 
   When did Liam ask Jenny out?
   
3. 
   Why wasn’t their first date very good?
   
4. 
   What were they doing when Liam asked Jenny to marry him?
   
5. 
   What was Liam doing when she said yes?
   

2. 
   Listen again and choose the correct answer.
   

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  Liam and Jenny first met last year/two years ago.
  
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  They started going out in March/September.
  
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  He asked her to marry him eight/eighteen months later.
  
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  They got engaged a few days/weekslater.
  
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  They got married six weeks/monthsafter that.
  

c) In which month did they get married?


Vocabulary and Grammar
Help with Listening Weak forms (1): was and were

7. 
   a) Listen to the two different ways to say was and were.
   

	strong	weak
was	/woz/	/wez/
were	/wz:/	/wye/

b) R2.5Look at R2.5, pl46. Listen again and notice how we say was and were. Are was and were usually strong or weak in: a) sentences? b) questions? c) short answers?


Help with Grammar Past Continues: questions
8. a) Look at questions 4 and 5 in 6a). Then fill in the gaps in the rule.

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  We make questions in the Past Continuous with: question word +…….or………+……….subject +……….
  

2. 
   C heck in G2.3 pl22.
   

9. 
   Work in pairs. Student A- pl03. Student V–pl03. Follow the instructions.
   
10. 
    Choose a married couple you know well(yourself and your wife/husband, your parents, other relatives or friends). Make rotes about the couple. Use these ideas.
    

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  when, where and how they met
  
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  where they went on their first date
  
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  how long they went out together before they got married
  
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  when they got engaged
  
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  when and where they got married
  
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  any other interesting or funny information
  

9. 
   a) Work in groups. Tell other students about the couple you chose. Ask questions to find out more information.
   

Where were they living at the time?

My parents first met at work.



In Madrid. They were working for a ...




b) Which story is the most romantic, the most unusual or the funniest?