DESCRIPTION: Review week — irregular past-tense verbs, clothes and military vocabulary, must/may, military time, punctuation, and a pronunciation reference. No new material.
INTRO: This is review week — no new material, just making sure last week's lessons still obey you. In this part you'll drill the irregular past-tense verbs and answer questions about the past. First, listen and repeat each pair: the present form, then the past.
INSTRUCTION: Listen and repeat each pair (present — past).
# Source: ST §He Didn't Drink Milk. He Drank Coffee. (recast: heard stimulus + visible cue)
$PRODUCE Say What Really Happened
ID: l5-s11
INTRO: You'll hear a sentence about what somebody did NOT do, and see a cue word on screen. Set the record straight: say what really happened, using the past tense.
INSTRUCTION: Change the negative sentence to the affirmative, using the cue.
INTRO: Now some questions about you and your week. Answer aloud in a full sentence, in the past tense. If a question isn't about your life, invent a believable answer — nobody will check whether the television really cost three hundred dollars.
INSTRUCTION: Answer each question aloud in a full sentence.
RUBRIC: The simple past tense is the point — a full-sentence answer in any other tense fails. Accept any grammatical, plausible answer; the learner may invent the details (names, places, prices, times).
# SKIPPED (book): Listening Skills "SAME/DIFFERENT" (word pair discrimination), "LISTEN AND WRITE" (paragraph cloze dictation), and "LISTEN AND CIRCLE" (paragraph comprehension). All are instructor-read with no recorded stimulus, and the exact texts/keys for the paragraphs are not provided in the book. Convertible later if fabricated.
# Source: ST §Pants and Socks Are Clothes (recast: spoken word, audio-first)
$SELECT Sort the Words into Groups
ID: l5-s6
INTRO: In this part you'll sort the week's vocabulary and dust off "must", "wear", and military time. First: you'll hear a word — tap the group it belongs to: clothes, military, colors, or seasons.
INSTRUCTION: Tap the correct group for the word you hear.
INTRO: Classroom law, review edition. You'll hear a cue — say a full sentence with "You must" or "You must not". Decide which one; the rules haven't changed since last week.
INSTRUCTION: Make a sentence aloud with "must" or "must not".
INTRO: Iris went shopping, and her story has lost all its capital letters and punctuation. Type each sentence correctly — here, the capitals and the marks at the end are exactly what's being graded.
INSTRUCTION: Type the sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation.
INPUT: type
CHECK: exact
NORMALIZE: strict
TEMPLATE: iris went to a clothing store last week
RESPONSE: Iris went to a clothing store last week.
TEMPLATE: she bought a blue coat for the winter
RESPONSE: She bought a blue coat for the winter.
TEMPLATE: she wants to wear the coat to the october dance
RESPONSE: She wants to wear the coat to the October dance.
TEMPLATE: she has a blue dress and blue shoes
RESPONSE: She has a blue dress and blue shoes.
TEMPLATE: iris went to the store again this morning
RESPONSE: Iris went to the store again this morning.
TEMPLATE: she bought gloves
RESPONSE: She bought gloves.
TEMPLATE: what color are her gloves
RESPONSE: What color are her gloves?
TEMPLATE: are they blue, too
RESPONSE: Are they blue, too?
# Source: ST §Alphabetical Order
$SELECT Alphabetical Order
ID: l5-s9
ORDER
INTRO: One last sorting job for this part: put the words in alphabetical order, first letter, then second, then third. Dictionaries do this all day.
INSTRUCTION: Tap the words in alphabetical order.
TEMPLATE: Put these words in alphabetical order.
OPTION: a | captain
OPTION: b | cost
OPTION: c | color
OPTION: d | clerk
OPTION: e | can
ANSWER: e,a,d,c,b
TEMPLATE: Put these words in alphabetical order.
OPTION: a | dollar
OPTION: b | doctor
OPTION: c | don't
OPTION: d | downtown
OPTION: e | door
ANSWER: b,a,c,e,d
$LESSON 5-3: The Big Review Check and the Sounds of English
# Source: ST §The Best Answer Is
$SELECT Review Check — Choose the Best Answer
ID: l5-s7
INTRO: The big review check: twenty questions mixing everything from this week — past tense, must and may, time expressions, clothes. Read each sentence and tap the best answer. Take your time; the questions aren't going anywhere.
INSTRUCTION: Tap the best answer.
TEMPLATE: Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are eating at a ____ downtown.
OPTION: a | rank
OPTION: b | color
OPTION: c | restaurant
OPTION: d | season
ANSWER: c
TEMPLATE: Did you salute the colonel?
OPTION: a | Yes, I was.
OPTION: b | Yes, I wasn't.
OPTION: c | Yes, I did.
OPTION: d | Yes, I am.
ANSWER: c
TEMPLATE: ____ did it cost?
OPTION: a | How much
OPTION: b | How many
OPTION: c | How does
OPTION: d | What much
ANSWER: a
TEMPLATE: Tom had to ____ his coat. It was hot inside the classroom.
OPTION: a | take off
OPTION: b | put out
OPTION: c | take
OPTION: d | put on
ANSWER: a
TEMPLATE: After you smoke, you ____ put your cigarette in a butt can.
OPTION: a | like
OPTION: b | didn't
OPTION: c | must
OPTION: d | did
ANSWER: c
TEMPLATE: My brother ____ soccer last year.
OPTION: a | plays
OPTION: b | play
OPTION: c | playing
OPTION: d | played
ANSWER: d
TEMPLATE: I ____ my friends in Canada two years ago.
OPTION: a | visited
OPTION: b | visits
OPTION: c | visiting
OPTION: d | visit
ANSWER: a
TEMPLATE: What time did the game ____? At midnight.
OPTION: a | ended
OPTION: b | started
OPTION: c | end
OPTION: d | play
ANSWER: c
TEMPLATE: Tim and Mary danced from 7:00 p.m. to midnight. They danced ____.
OPTION: a | military time
OPTION: b | the day after tomorrow
OPTION: c | all night long
OPTION: d | on time
ANSWER: c
TEMPLATE: I ____ come to class on time.
OPTION: a | want
OPTION: b | report
OPTION: c | like
OPTION: d | must
ANSWER: d
TEMPLATE: You ____ leave the classroom at 8 o'clock.
OPTION: a | start
OPTION: b | again
OPTION: c | may
OPTION: d | like
ANSWER: c
TEMPLATE: We worked for two hours; then we ____.
OPTION: a | take a break
OPTION: b | took a break
OPTION: c | break
OPTION: d | put a break
ANSWER: b
TEMPLATE: Mother and the children cooked and cleaned from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. They cleaned ____.
OPTION: a | all night
OPTION: b | before morning
OPTION: c | after night
OPTION: d | all morning
ANSWER: d
TEMPLATE: The movie ____ at 7:30 p.m., and it ended at 9:30 p.m.
OPTION: a | begins
OPTION: b | began
OPTION: c | begin
OPTION: d | is beginning
ANSWER: b
TEMPLATE: Yesterday, the clerk ____ John a tie.
OPTION: a | bought
OPTION: b | helped
OPTION: c | cost
OPTION: d | sold
ANSWER: d
TEMPLATE: Student: ____ I go to the dispensary?
TEMPLATE: Teacher: Yes, after class.
OPTION: a | May
OPTION: b | When
OPTION: c | Take
OPTION: d | Must not
ANSWER: a
TEMPLATE: I went downtown ____.
OPTION: a | tomorrow
OPTION: b | the day before yesterday
OPTION: c | now
OPTION: d | the day after tomorrow
ANSWER: b
TEMPLATE: Were you awake or ____ at midnight last night?
OPTION: a | asleep
OPTION: b | fall asleep
OPTION: c | sleep
OPTION: d | fell asleep
ANSWER: a
TEMPLATE: ____, Mike! You're late for school.
OPTION: a | Fall awake
OPTION: b | Fall asleep
OPTION: c | Wake up
OPTION: d | Take off
ANSWER: c
TEMPLATE: Rita learned to swim 10 years ago. She swims every day. She can swim ____.
# SKIPPED (book): "A PUZZLE", "CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1", "ANOTHER PUZZLE", "CROSSWORD PUZZLE 2", and "LOOK FOR THE WORDS." (word search). Puzzles are spatial/written activities unsupported by the app format.
INTRO: Here's a reference chart of the consonant sounds of English, each with example words. Tap any word to hear it — the symbols are for reference; the sounds are the point.
INTRO: And the vowel sounds — fourteen of them, which is more than the alphabet admits to. Tap the example words and listen for the vowel each row shares. That's the week reviewed; see you in the next lesson.