LESSON 2 GAME OVER

 LESSON 2 GAME OVER

AIMS: VIDEO GAMES

Past Simple and Past Progressive

My Great Wii

PRE-READING

How much time can you spend playing videos games?

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Hi, Peter!

You know that I´m a video games addict. Well, yesterday I got something I wanted for long.

Nintendo Wii. To say that it´s amazing is to say nothing. It communicates wirelessly with input devices.

In my opinion, it revolutionized how people play video games. I was playing all day and couldn’t have enough of it. I tried snowboarding, mountain biking and rollerblading. My girlfriend Carry was playing with me too.

She really enjoyed racing cars and kung fu fighting. She was close to win several times, but it was too hard since it was her first time playing. When Carry was losing she was getting angry. Anyway, it was so much fun, we couldn´t stop. We were jumping back and forth. The best thing is that remote has a wrist band, so when we got really excited we didn´t destroy the screen. Hope you visit me soon and we´ll play together.

Mario

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER

1.- How long was Mario Playing?

a) He was playing for three hours.  b) He was playing all day.

2.- What games did he try?

a) He tried bike and tennis.  B) He tried bike and snowboarding.

 3.- Why was Carry getting angry?

a) She was getting angry because she was losing.  b) She was getting angry when she was winning.

4.- What game did carry enjoy the most?

a) She enjoyed Karate fighting.  B) She enjoyed kung fu fighting.

SPEAKING ACTIVITY

Describe your favorite video game to your classmates and ask which one is their favorite.

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Grammar

Past simple is used for:

* Complete actions in the past.

* Completed actions that happened one after the other.

*past habits or repeated actions in the past.

Examples:

I finished my work 2 days ago.

We had dinner and then we slept .

She used to smoke a lot.

Past progressive is used for:

*An action in progress at a certain time in the past.

* actions that were happening at the same time .

* an action in progress that was interrupted.

Examples:

They were studying yesterday from 2 to 5 p.m.

Danny was cooking while you were resting.

MAKE YOUR OWN EXAMPLES USING THESE 2 TENSES.

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