Lesson 7A At the National Portrait Gallery

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. In Listening and Writing, Sts listen to five clues about famous people and then have to guess who they are. They then write their own clues and get a partner to guess the person.