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Make your own animation quickly and economically with GoAnimate. Reach prospects and customers with animated videos online about your business and products.

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Complete the story. Yesterday evening I ______ (be) at home, sleeping in front of the television, when I ______ (hear) a strange noise . I ______ (wake) up and ______ (run) to the window. Can you guess what I ______ (see) in the garden? A flying saucer! I ______ (think) I was dreaming so…

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1.Present your work

2. Answer your peers'

comprehension questions

3.Answer the following Questionnaire for each of the stories you have watched

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T73JMQ2

4. Roleplay each other's

story in your groups

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Prepare comprehension questions on your stories  for the other groups using an e-tool eg kubbu ( http://www.kubbu.com/ ) , , proprofs quiz school ( http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/  ) etc

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1. Work in groups and turn your story

or script into a film strip or cartoon animation

using Go Animate( https://goanimate4schools.com/public_index), Fluxtime( http://www.fluxtime.com/), Toodoo ( http://www.toondoo.com/ ) Powtoon ( http://www.powtoon.com/ )

or any other relative e-tool.

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Wikispaces was founded in 2005 and has since been used by educators, companies and individuals across the globe.

Unfortunately, the time has come where we have had to make the difficult business decision to end the Wikispaces service.

We first announced the site closure in January 2018, through a site-wide banner that appeared to all logged-in users and needed to be clicked on to dismiss

During the closure period a range of banners were shown to users, including a countdown banner in the final month. Additionally, the home page of Wikispaces.com became a blog, detailing the reasons for the closure. Private Label Site Administrators were contacted separately regarding the closure

Wikispaces Tier

Closedown Date

Classroom and Free Wikis end of service

31st July 2018

Plus and Super Wikis end of service

30th September 2018

Private Label Wikis end of service

31st January 2019

Why has Wikispaces closed?
Approximately 18 months ago, we completed a technical review of the infrastructure and software we used to serve Wikispaces users. As part of the review, it became apparent that the required investment to bring the infrastructure and code in line with modern standards was very substantial. We explored all possible options for keeping Wikispaces running but had to conclude that it was no longer viable to continue to run the service in the long term. So, sadly, we had to close the site - but we have been touched by the messages from users all over the world who began creating wikis with it and now running them on new platforms.

The Wikispaces team

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Wikispaces was founded in 2005 and has since been used by educators, companies and individuals across the globe. Unfortunately, the time has come where we have had to make the difficult business decision to end the Wikispaces service.

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ELC Study Zone: Negatives and Questions in the Simple Past Tense

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In the simple past tense, negative and question forms are made using the auxiliary verb "do" (in its past form, "did") followed by the simple form of the main verb. This page explains the rules.

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1. Let's arrange ourselves in groups

of 4 or 5 and decide on the topic of an

imaginary story, event or experience of yours to narrate.Report to class.

2. Open googledocs and take turns

writing your story collaboratively.

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5. Report your findings about your

partner to the class.

Who had the most interesting weekend?

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4.In pairs ask each other questions

about your last weekend

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3. In pairs take turns to

roleplay the dialogue.

I have muted the voice.

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2. Let's talk about the form of the

questions and negations in past tense

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1. Watch, listen, read and notice

the way the kids ask questions about the past.
Choose the video '' Talking about the weekend''

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(also called the simple past tense)

( Click here to learn about how to USE the past simple)

It's similar to the present simple because it has different rules for the verb 'be', which becomes 'was' or 'were':
The Past Simple with 'be'
Here's how to make the positive:

To make the negative with 'be', just add 'not':

Here's an exercise to practise the positive and negative forms with 'be'

To make a question, just like the present simple, we change the position of 'was / were' and the subject.

Here are the past simple 'yes / no' questions with 'be':

And the 'wh' questions with 'be' (the question word just goes at the beginning, everything else is the same):

And here's an exercise for 'wh' and 'yes / no' questions

Here's another exercise with 'be' (this time it's all forms - positive, negative and questions)
Would you like more practice? Get a new grammar lesson every day, a new listening lesson every week, lots of extra lessons and personal help from me by email? Click here for more information.

The Past Simple (Simple Past) with Other Verbs

We make the past simple just like the present simple except we use 'did' instead of 'do / does'. It's really easy because 'did' doesn't change, even with 'he / she / it'.

The positive:

We usually make the positive by adding '-ed' to the infinitive. For example, 'play' becomes 'played'. However, there are some irregular verbs, for example 'go' becomes 'went' and 'run' becomes 'ran'.

(Here's some help if you are not sure how to pronounce '-ed' at the end of a verb).

Click here for a list of 50 common irregular verbs (PDF file)

Click here for an exercise about irregular verbs in this verb tense

Click here for another irregular verb exercise

In the negative there aren't any irregular verbs. All verbs use 'did not (didn't) + infinitive':

Here's an exercise about the negative form

Questions are also very easy. Just put 'did' before the subject, and the infinitive after it.

Here are the 'yes / no' questions:

And here's an exercise about 'yes / no' questions

To make a 'wh' question, of course, put the question word at the beginning of the sentence:

And here's an exercise about 'wh' questions

Here are some exercises about making all the forms:
Mixed Exercise 1
Mixed Exercise 2
Mixed Exercise 3
Mixed Exercise 4
Click here to learn about when we use this tense

Would you like more practice? Get a new grammar lesson every day, a new listening lesson every week, lots of extra lessons and personal help from me by email? Click here for more information.

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( Click here to learn about how to USE the past simple) It's similar to the present simple because it has different rules for the verb 'be', which becomes 'was' or 'were': The Past Simple with 'be' Here's how to make the positive: To make the negative with 'be', just add 'not': Here's an exercise to practise the positive and negative forms with 'be' To make a question, just like the present simple, we change the position of 'was / were' and the subject.

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Complete the story. Yesterday evening I ______ (be) at home, sleeping in front of the television, when I ______ (hear) a strange noise . I ______ (wake) up and ______ (run) to the window. Can you guess what I ______ (see) in the garden? A flying saucer! I ______ (think) I was dreaming so…

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4. Work on the one of the following fill-in exercises

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Storytelling - Simple Past Tense | Learn English

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Learn English. 1 FREE English lesson added every single day. Grammar, vocabulary, listening & reading

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3. Practise past tenses doing the following matching game.

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1.Do the matching quiz and notice the structure of the verbs.

2. Let's talk about the form and the use of the tense (regular and irregular)

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Talking about the past