Lesson aims
Students talk about what people
could and couldn’t do in the past. They also practice
sentence stress.
New language
People could buy books in
19
80.
They couldn’t buy e-books. What could people do
(before
19
80)?
Recycled language
information technology,
pronouncing years, past tense,
life,
was born
Materials
CD2
|
Word cards: see page TB
1
07
|
An old portrait-style photograph of a person and
a picture of a painted portrait (from books or the
Internet)
Warmer
•
Play
Pass the word cards
(see page xvi). When you say
Stop!
, students define the word or ask a question.
Presentation
•
Write some years on the board and practice
pronunciation. Remind students that we usually
pronounce years as two numbers (e.g.,
19
84 = Nineteen
eighty-four
), but we say
Two thousand …
for years 200
1
through 200
9
. Ask
When were you born?
•
Ask students
When did people take the first photograph?
Elicit guesses and then write
1
83
9
on the board.
Show
a photograph and say
Today people can take
photographs. They could take photographs in
1
840.
What happened in
1
83
9
and before? Did people take
photographs?
(
No
.) Show a painted portrait. Say
They
couldn’t take photographs. They could paint portraits.
•
Ask about different dates, helping them to reply with
could
or
couldn’t
, e.g.,
What about
19
56?
(
People could
take photographs.
)
And
1
824?
(
They couldn’t take
photographs.
)
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