1. Download the file suggested in the  “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make copies for students.

2. Ask students what an unexpected situation they can think of when they think of their dad’s car, or their sister’s bike,

3. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to work individually.

4. Ask them to read the 4 situations and pay close attention to the words in bold.

5. Review past tenses, regular and irregular, briefly so students feel more confident with the exercise.

6. Check answers with students.

7. Go back to the words in bold and write a couple of examples on the board ‘A few months ago I was walking down the street____’ and ask students to give you two possible unexpected situations using this cue sentence.

8. Ask volunteers to share their answers with the class and correct them as necessary.

9. Continue working with the same worksheet and as students to read the ‘Birthday surprise’ story and pay attention to the words in bold that will help them understand when this happened.

10. Help with vocabulary as needed and ask students to share their answers with the class.

11. Ask students to work in pairs and use the same questions, ‘When? What happened? Where? Who? How did he/she feel? To discuss the previous stories.

12. Have volunteers share their answers with the class.

1. Download the file suggested in the  “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make copies for students.

2. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to read the title and guess what the reading is about.

3. Tell students they are going to work in pairs and find 30 mistakes in the text and correct them. Read the example.

4. You may want to review some irregular and regular verbs in the past as well as the affirmative and negative forms.

5. Suggest students underline the time expressions in the past in the text so they can easily identify the context.

6. Monitor the activity and depending on how you see the class reacts, ask them to work on the first paragraph.

7. Have some students read the sentences and ask the class to listen and correct, suggest, ask questions as necessary.

8. Ask the paragraph aloud for students’ final confirmation.

9. Have a volunteer read the first past again and ask students to continue working the same way on the second paragraph in pairs.

10. Monitor and offer help as needed.

11. Invite students to read their paragraphs to another pair of students and make corrections if necessary.

12. Ask pairs of students to now write questions about the event that give us more details and information, ‘What happened? When? Who? Which? Etc.

1. Download the file suggested in the  “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make copies for students.

2. Download the file and make copies for students. Before class, cut the story along the dotted lines into 11 sentence strips. For a class of more than 11students, some students will double up with a partner.

3. Distribute the sentence strips randomly, and have your students memorize their sentences. (Give them a 2 or 3 minutes for this.)

4. Then, have them return the sentence strips to you, and then stand up. They should walk around the classroom and say their sentences to their classmates and try to figure out the order of the sentences. Have them write their sentences on the board – don’t insist on100% grammatical accuracy at this point.

5. Monitor the activity and offer some help if your students have difficulty.

6. You may repeat the activity one more time for students to gain more practice.

7. Have some volunteers narrate the experience and ask the class to listen to them attentively.

8. Ask students to remember what happened in the story, who was involved, and other details.

9. Distribute the worksheet and tell students to complete the event using the given verbs in the past.

10. You may want to review the past tense of such verbs in order to control the exercise or ask students to put the verbs in the past first before they actually start reading.

11. Ask students to start working and wait for reactions, let’s see who notices it is the same story but in a different format.

12. When they are finished, ask them to sit in pairs and check their answers. In case they have questions and doubts about the verbs ask them to find another pair and ask those questions.