Mr.Silva's Digital Planning: Talking about the past (Past Simple)

Listen to the conversation between Hana and Daniel and answer the questions. Answer using complete sentences.

1) What did Daniel do in Taiwan?

2) Who did he go with?

3) How was the local food in Taiwan?

4) How long did he go for?

5) Why did he go to Taiwan?

Assessment on Writing
Write a paragraph describing your favorite holiday vacations. Follow the questions to cover up the information and if there are some details you don't remember, just invent them.
1) What was your favorite holiday vacation in your life?
2) Where did you go on that vacation?
3) Who did you go with?
4) How did you travel to that destination?
5) How long was the trip to get there?
6) Where did you stay?
7) What did you do in that vacation? (Include 3 activities)
8) What did you eat and drink?
9) What was the best moment?
10) What was the worst moment?

Example:
My favorite holiday vacation was when I was 12 during Christmas. I went to Merida, a very beautiful mountainous city. I was with my dad, mom, brother, aunt, uncle and some cousins. We traveled in a car caravan of three. It took about 6 hours there, we stopped in different places to rest on the road. We stayed in a big family hotel called Magdalena. We hiked to the Pico Bolivar, visited the local zoo and tried different restaurants. We ate a lot of typical food, grilled meat, and drank hot chocolate. The best moment was when we visited the mountains because the view was amazing. The worst moment was when my brother and I got fever, called "Fiebre del Paramo", and had to go back to the hotel.

Assessment on Speaking
Prepare a presentation about an artist that you like and describe their story. Since we are working on past forms, the artist has to be a deceased one to avoid time use confusion. The presentation is going to be divided in 5 parts.

1) Introduce the artist.
Say who the artist is, why he/she is famous and why do you like him/her.
Example: Michael Jackson was the King of Pop. He was a very famous singer and dancer. I like this artist because I really like his music.

2) First Steps
Talk about his/her origins.
Example: Michael Jackson was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1958. His mother was Katherin Jackson and his dad was Joe Jackson. He lived in a small house with his three sisters and six brothers.

3) Artistic Career
Talk about his/her career.
Example: Michael Jackson career started in the child band called "The Jackson 5". They sang and danced pop song and had many hit songs. After the band split up, Michael Jackson began a solo career where he hand numerous great songs. During the 80s and 90s, he was seen as the King of Pop for his many successful videos, performances and for having record sales in different albums.

4) Historic Events
Talk about his/her best hits, movies, songs, moments, shows or actions.
Example: Michael Jackson's biggest hit was Thriller. Thriller was one of the most expensive and elaborated videos of its era, but also one of the most popular.The album where this single was released sold millions of copy.

5) The Final Days
Talk about his/her dead and what impact it had.
Michael Jackson died in June 2009. He died due to the misused of certain drugs by his personal doctor. His dead was a very sad event in the history of music and thousands of people went to his funeral. Nowadays, MJ is remember as a Pop Legend and an idol.

Mr.Silva's Digital Planning

Talking about the past (Past Simple)

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