Correct the Errors!

Today We Will…

• Discuss Unit 4 Theme: Child’s Play

• Learn the form for past perfect tense and past perfect progressive tense

• Use past perfect and past perfect progressive to express ideas

• Identify cause and effect relationships

Our Last Unit!

• Theme of the unit is: Child’s Play

• What does child’s play mean?

• Listen to the song, “Pinball Wizard,” by The Who.

“Pinball Wizard”Background: • The song appears on the 1969

album, Tommy, by the British rock band, The Who.

• Tommy is a rock-opera about a young boy who becomes a pinball sensation.

• Tommy was made into a movie in 1975

• Elton John plays the former pinball champion and sings the song, “Pinball Wizard,” in the movie version of Tommy

Child’s Play

• The expression “child’s play” is used to refer to something that is easy to do.– Oh, running a triathlon? That’s child’s play.

• Textbook, page 33. Read the “Warm Up”

• Complete Exercise 2.

Child Prodigy

• What is a child prodigy? Can you think of examples? Discuss with a partner.

• Child prodigies:– Tommy is a pinball wizard. – Mozart is a musical genius.– Stephan Hawking is a physicist.

• Watch the video about a modern day child prodigy, Tanishq Abraham.

• Workbook, page 26, Practice 3

Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive

• Read the directions on your worksheet.

• How are the past perfect and past perfect progressive formed?

• Why is time important?– when, by the time, before, after, never

• Complete the remaining questions on the “Pinball Wizard” worksheet.

Forming the Past Perfect Tense• Past Perfect Tense

• Had + past participle

• Used to show a past action happened before another past action

• By the time John got home, Sue had already gone to school.

• She had taken Biology classes before she enrolled in college

• Negative Sentences

• Had + (not) + past participle

• She had not finished her homework when her mother came home.

• Question Formation

• Had she seen that movie already?

Practice Forming Present Perfect Tense

Directions:

• Textbook, page 35

• Read “The Past Perfect Tense”

• Complete Exercise 1 and 2

Forming the Past Perfect Progressive

• Past Perfect Progressive

• Had + been + verb –ing

• Used to talk about an action that was happening before or up to a specific time in the past

• She had been looking for an apartment for 2 months when she found a studio on West 86th Street.

• Negative Sentences

• Had + (not) + been + verb –ing

• I hadn’t been sleeping well this past week.

• Question Formation

• Had they been going to the gym all this time?

• Had you been waiting long before the taxi arrived?

Practice forming the past perfect progressive:

Directions

• Textbook, page 36

• Read “The Past Perfect Progressive”

• Complete Exercise 3 and Exercise 4

Form the past perfect progressive for the situation below:

He had been looking for a room for 3 to 4 months when his friend offered him a room.

Form the past perfect progressive for the situation below:

She had been working on her Master’s degree for 4 years when she got engaged in 1999.

Wrap up

• Homework:– Bring in a timeline for your favorite celebrity. – The timeline should have at least 5

accomplishments.

– Workbook, page 27, Practice 6– Workbook, page 28, Practice 7