For this lesson, people in different countries around the world were asked to write a report about a memorable night. Two written reports by a young American woman and a Turkish man provide the context for the introduction of common simple past irregular verbs. Then Sts listen to a third report by a Spanish man. The vocabulary focus is common collocations of the key verbs go, have , and get (e.g. go out, get home, etc.).

Workbook page 45-46

Simple past regular verbs are introduced in this lesson.
The context is provided by the true storv of Princess Diana’s niece who took a taxi to what she thought was Stamford Bridge Stadium (the home of Chelsea Football Club) in London, but ended up in a remote village in the north of England also called Stamford Bridge. Princess Dianas brother has three daughters and it was never established which of the three girls ended up in the wrong place, but most newspapers assumed that it was Kitty, the eldest.

Workbook page 43-44

This lesson uses the context of historical figures to introduce and practice the simple past of the verb be (was / were). The grammar is presented through a conversation between two people who are looking at a photo of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Pronunciation and Speaking gets Sts to focus on sentence stress in simple past sentences and questions. The Reading picks up the topic of pictures of famous people at the National Portrait Gallery and then moves onto word formation, e.g. music - musician.