Lesson 9B "Before they were stars..."

What some well-known celebrities did before they were famous, provides the context to introduce and practice the simple past of the verb be (was / were). First, Sts try to guess the previous jobs of eight celebrities and then they listen to see if they were right. In Pronunciation, Sts practice the sound /ər/, which is used in were /wər/ and then practice the strong and weak forms ofwas and were. The vocabulary focus in the lesson is on prepositions with places, in, at, and on (e.g., at the airport, in bed, on a bus) and in the fial speaking activity grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary are brought together when Sts ask and answer questions about where they were at various times the previous day.