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DIDACTIC UNIT 7: “Return
“Return to the past”
DIDACTIC UNIT 7: “Return to the past”.
AUTORA: Mª Dolores Jiménez Rodríguez.
DNI: 44959635 V.
INTRODUCCIÓN:
La presente unidad didáctica introduce un tiempo verbal en Inglés: el
Pasado Simple. Para ponerlo en práctica se va a partir de diversas actividades –
textos orales y escritos de personajes históricos (Galileo Galilei, John Lennon),
diálogos, tarea final, etc. En la medida de lo posible, se ha hecho todo lo que
está al alcance para incluir ejercicios entretenidos, didácticos, útiles y
productivos dirigidos al alumnado de 3º de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria.
OBJETIVOS:
- Aprender verbos, expresiones temporales y conectores en la lengua inglesa para
escribir una biografía y hablar sobre algunos inventos históricos.
- Practicar la terminación –ed de los verbos regulares en Pasado Simple.
- Aprender algunos verbos irregulares.
- Entender textos orales y escritos sobre personajes históricos relevantes.
- Participar en tareas por pareja y grupales.
- Escribir frases y textos breves haciendo uso del Pasado Simple.
COMPETENCIAS BÁSICAS:
1. COMPETENCIA DE COMUNICACIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA.
En esta unidad, los alumnos van a aprender y practicar el Pasado Simple para hablar y
escribir sobre eventos pasados y biografías, mediante conversación en parejas, entre
otro tipo de actividades.
2. COMPETENCIA MATEMÁTICA.
El alumnado hace uso de los números para introducir fechas relacionadas con biografías
e inventos. Del mismo modo, se utilizan en la tarea final.
3. TRATAMIENTO DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y COMPETENCIA DIGITAL.
Se pone en práctica en este caso a través de una página web acerca de “The Greatest
Inventors and Inventions”.
4. COMPETENCIA CULTURAL Y ARTÍSTICA.
Se manifiesta con frecuencia en esta unidad, pues se tratan diversos personajes
relevantes en distintos aspectos culturales, como la literatura, la pintura, la música, etc.
5. COMPETENCIA PARA APRENDER A APRENDER.
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Los alumnos desarrollan estrategias al inferir reglas para formar y pronunciar el Pasado
Simple con verbos regulares o mediante la realización de tareas en casa.
6. AUTONOMÍA E INICIATIVA PERSONAL.
Se lleva a cabo al realizar ejercicios individuales, por parejas o en grupos (tareas orales,
proyecto de trabajo final).
CONTENIDOS:
BLOQUE 1: Escuchar, hablar y conversar.
Escuchar la biografía de John Lennon; hablar con el compañero/a acerca de eventos
pasados usando expresiones temporales; hacer preguntas con partículas interrogativas
(wh-words).
BLOQUE 2: Leer y escribir.
Leer un texto sobre Galileo Galilei y sobre otros personajes históricos; escribir sobre
inventos relevantes; poner en práctica todos los contenidos adquiridos en la unidad en la
tarea final.
BLOQUE 3: Reflexión sobre la lengua y su aprendizaje.
Aprender expresiones temporales, conectores y fechas para escribir sobre inventos y
biografías con el Pasado Simple; practicar la pronunciación –ed de los verbos regulares
en el Pasado Simple; aprender algunos verbos irregulares y usarlos de una manera
adecuada.
BLOQUE 4: Conocimiento social y cultural.
Escuchar y leer información de Galileo Galilei y John Lennon y sobre los inventos de la
televisión, el bolígrafo,...
CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN:
REFERIDOS A ESCUCHAR, HABLAR Y CONVERSAR.
Comprender textos orales y hacer un correcto uso de la gramática y vocabulario de la
unidad.
REFERIDOS A LEER Y ESCRIBIR.
Comprender textos escritos y desarrollar la habilidad lingüística de escribir al producir
breves párrafos sobre inventos relevantes.
REFERIDOS A LA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LA LENGUA Y SU APRENDIZAJE.
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Pronunciar correctamente la terminación –ed de los verbos regulares; distinguir los

verbos regulares de los irregulares y aprender algunos de ellos.
REFERIDOS AL CONOCIMIENTO CULTURAL Y SOCIAL.
Adquirir datos de personajes célebres de la historia, inventos,... de distintas culturas y
países del mundo.
UNIT 7/session
7/session 1.
VOCABULARY
Read the following definitions and match them with pictures they refer to and
people who invented them. Put them in the correct order depending on the time
they were invented and write their name below each picture.
1. Piece of equipment shaped like a tube, containing lenses that you look
through to make far away objects appear larger and nearer.
2. Glass object that gives light when it is switched on.
3. System for talking to somebody else over long distances, using wires
or not.
4. Piece of equipment for taking photographs.
5. Piece of electrical equipment with a screen on which you can watch
programmes with moving pictures and sounds.
6. Piece of equipment used for listening to programmes that are
broadcast to the public.
7. Machines that sends and receives documents in an electric form along
telephone wires and then prints it.
8. Method of sending messages over long distances, using wires that
carry electrical signals.
9. Electromagnetical device for playing back recorded sound from a disc
or record.
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A) ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, 1876 B) GALILEO GALILEI, 1609
C) THOMAS ALVA EDISON, 1879 D) JOSEPH NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE, 1814
E) THOMAS ALVA EDISON, 1877 F) GUGLIELMO MARCONI, 1895
G) ALEXANDER BAIN, 1843 H) JOHN LOGIE BAIRD, 1825
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WRITING
Write the name of other inventions you consider relevant in the course of history
and why they are important. If possible, say the time they were invented.
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Look at the pictures of people and choose one of the two options to make true
sentences about why they became famous when they were alive.
1) MOTHER TERESA
was famous because she helped everyone through

charitable work in India/travelled to more than fifteen countries around
the world to teach religion.
2) JAMES WATT
invented the steam power/created the first car in

the world.
3) CLEOPATRA
was a Classical queen in the Roman Empire/was a

legendary queen of ancient Egypt.
4) HENRY VIII
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married six times/studied Theology.
5) VINCENT VAN GOGH
loved writing books/painted “The Sunflowers”.
Try to explain in writing why most verbs in sentences above end in –(e)d. Then,
read the sheet your teacher will give you about the form and use of the Past
Simple.
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UNIT 7/session 2.
2.
READING :“GALILEO GALILEI”.
Pre-Reading task.
What do you know about Galileo? Mention some of his inventions in the past and write
them on your notebook.
While-Reading task.
Read the following biography of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and do the following
exercises.
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, in Pisa (Italy), from a family who was
very musical. That’s the reason why he could play the organ and the flute. But
most people knew him because he was the scientist who founded modern physics
and telescopic astronomy. Actually, in 1609, he made a telescope and
discovered a lot of important things about the solar system, for example the
four moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and the fact thar planets went
around the sun.
He also studied medicine at the University of Pisa from 1581 to 1585
(but he left it because he had no money), but, in general, he preferred Maths
and Physics. In fact, he wrote about that in his works Dialogues Concerning
the Two Chief World Systems (1632) and Discourses and Mathematical
Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1631). He died in January in
1642.
1) Complete with information from the text.

NAME: ___________________________________________________________
DATES:
Birth .............................................................................................................
Death ............................................................................................................
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Others ...........................................................................................................
NATIONALITY: ____________________________________________________
JOB(S): ____________________________________________________________
ACHIEVEMENT(S)/DISCOVERIES: ____________________________________
2) Underline verbs in the text that appear in the Past Simple.
Post-Reading task.
Write a short biography about anyone you choose (relative, popular person,...)
following the model of the biography you have read.
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Complete these sentences about celebrities in the past using regular and irregular
verbs in brackets in the affirmative form of the Past Simple.
1) Lady Diana Spencer _____________ (LIVE) in France.
2) The Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí _____________ (BUILD) the

Parthenon in Athens.
3) John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, ______________ (BE) an English

nobleman. He _______________ (INVENT) the burger.
4) Valentina Tereschkova was the first woman who _______________

(GO) to a Japanese speaking country.
5) “The Beatles” ________________ (SING) “Imagine”.
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6) William Shakespeare ________________ (WRITE) Gulliver’s Travels.
7) Elvis Presley ________________ (BE) a popular writer in his lifetime.
8) Louis Braille __________________ (USE) colours in his invention for

blind people.
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Correct sentences in previous exercise to make them true by turning sentences into
questions and then answering them. First of all, match each picture with historical
figures. Look at these pictures that may help you.
For example: “- Did Antonio Gaudí build the Parthenon? – No, he didn’t. He built the
Sacred Family”.
A) THE SACRED FAMILY B) SANDWICH
C) SPACE D) “YESTERDAY”
E) UNITED KINGDOM F) RAISED SPOTS ON PAPER
G) DANCER, MUSICIAN, SINGER H) ROMEO AND JULIET
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Write the Past Simple of these verbs.
INFINITIVE FORM PAST SIMPLE

work
use
arrive
go
make
travel
build
be
start
listen
get married
die
help
rule
create
come
decide
stop
write
become
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UNIT 7/session 3.
3.
LISTENING : “JOHN LENNON”.
Pre-Listening task.
Circle the name of British singers (some of them dead) you find in this group.
EMINEM --- JAMES BLUNT --- JOHN LENNON --- PAVAROTTI --- PIGNOISE ---
MICHAEL JACKSON --- RONNIE BIRD --- BOB DYLAN --- PETE DOHERTY ---
THE CRANBERRIES --- BEYONCÉ KNOWLES
While-Listening task.
Listen to your teacher. He/She is reading you a short biography about the English singer
John Lennon.Take notes about the most important events and dates in his lifetime.
Then, do the following exercises.
1) Answer these questions:
a) When was John Lennon born?
b) Where did he live with during his childhood and adolescence? Why?
c) Which was his favourite musical instrument?
d) When did Lennon form the rock group “The Beatles”? Who were the other
components of the group?
e) What did he do in his lifetime?
2) Take the script of the text and underline expressions of time you find in it. Then,
translate them into Spanish.
3) Write sentences related to the text using ago.
For example: “John Lennon was born sixty-eight years ago”.
Post-Listening task.
Write at least one sentence using all the time expressions for the past: ago, later, when,
before, then, in,...
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PRONUNCIATION
Read these sentences and pay careful attention to numbers and the –(e)d ending of
regular verbs in the Past Simple.
1) Miguel de Crevantes (1547-1616), at the age of thirty, married Catalina de Salazar. He became a popular writer
in Spanish literature.
2) Charles I succeeded his father, James I, in the English crown in the first half of the 17th century.
3) The Italian Baroque composer and violinist Vivaldi (1678-1741) composed a lot of orchestral works, but he only
published some of them. For example a group of four concertos called “The Four Seasons”, in 1725.
4) The Vikings, from the 9th to the 11th century, emerged from their northern homelands to invade certain areas
of England.
5) The Australian physician Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) founded the Psychoanalysis and modified his theories
several times over a period of almost 50 years (1889-1939).
6) Marilyn Monroe was one of the most popular stars in the 1950s and early 1960s. Some time before, in 1946,
she appeared for the first time on dozens of magazine covers.
7) Luciano Pavarotti died two years ago.
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8) Leonardo da Vinci lived in Italy, in the 15th and 16th centuries.
9) Mozart composed operas, piano concertos, etc.
10) People called José Bonaparte “Pepe Botella”.
11) Picasso painted “Guernica”.
PRONUNCIATION
Classify the following regular verbs and those appearing in sentences of previous
exercise according to their pronunciation. Put them in the correct column.
PAINTED --- VISITED --- STUDIED --- MOVED --- PLAYED --- INVITED ---
TRAVELLED --- HELPED --- CREATED --- DISCOVERED
/d/ /t/ /Id/

studied moved painted
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Add four verbs in each column and make sentences with them.
Write the base form of irregular verbs that appear in the second exercise of this
session.
/d/ /t/ /Id/
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UNIT 7/session 4.
4.
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Look at the pictures. Complete these questions with the correct verb from the box
and ago and write answers for those questions according to what you think.
DRIVE --- EAT --- LISTEN TO --- MAKE --- WRITE --- RIDE --- TAKE ---
TRAVEL (x2) --- USE --- WATCH --- WEAR
_____________ cars? _______ bikes? _________ TV? ___ photographs?
__________ by train? _____ by plane? __ telephone calls? ____ typewriters?
__________ records? _______ jeans? _ with ball-point pens? ___ hamburgers?
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GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Check some of your answers by reading short extracts about the inventions of the
hamburger, television and ball-point pen. Underline in red colour regular verbs,
and irregular verbs in blue in the Past Simple. Write their base form and past
participle.
THE HAMBURGER TELEVISION THE BALL POINT-PEN

An American chef from A Scotsman, John A Hungarian, Laszlo Biro,
Connecticut, Louis Logie Baird, made the first ball-point
Lassen, made and sold transmitted the first pen in 1838. In 1944 the
the first hamburgers in television picture on American Army bought
1985. He called them October 25, 1825. The thirty thousand because
hamburgers because first thing on television soldiers could write with
sailors from Hamburg was a cat from the them outside in the rain. At
in Germany gave him office next to Baird’s the end of the war ‘Biros’
the recipe. Teachers workroom in London. In quickly became very popular
from Yale University 1927 Baird sent all over the world. In 1948
and businessmen loved pictures from London a shop in New York sold ten
them and bought them. to Glasgow. In 1928 he on one day.
Keneth’s Lassen, Louis’s sent pictures to Paris
son, stills sells and also produced the
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hamburgers in first colour TV

Connecticut. pictures.
SPEAKING
Tell your partner what you did...
Last night.
An hour ago.
Before/After you did your homework yesterday.
In your last birthday.
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Classify these verbs as regular (R) or irregular (I) and write their Past Simple.
BASE FORM PAST SIMPLE REGULAR/IRREGULAR

win
play
achieve
be
make
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explore
have
find
build
become
begin
decide
educate
leave
go
buy
UNIT 7/session 5.
5.
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Complete this text with the suitable form of the verbs in brackets and connectors
of time from the box.
BEFORE --- TODAY --- YEARS --- IN 1928 --- WHEN --- LATER --- AFTER
AMY JOHNSON: ‘Queen of the Air’
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Amy Johnson ___________ (BE BORN) on July 1903 in the North

WRITING
Write a short story in the past, in two or three paragraphs, using some time
expressions in the text you have just read or any others you have learnt in sessions
before. Then, hand it to your teacher.
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UNIT 7/session 6.
6.
Computer Room.
In pairs, go to the Web Page http://library.thinkquest.org/5847/games.htm

and click on QUIZ. The first thing you will see is a sentence using THE
GREATEST INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS, and just below it Inventor’s Quiz.
What you have to do is to click on the 22 questions and, for each question, choose
only one of the answers, which is the correct one by clicking on it. You will receive
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a feedback of your answers and even a second opportunity in case of choosing the
wrong answer.
Then, if you want to go on playing, you can click on GAMES, where you will
find a crossword puzzle, a word search, and a maze, all of them about inventors
and inventions.
UNIT 7/session
7/session 7.
7.
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
WH-WORDS.
Complete these questions with wh-question words from the box and match them
with the correct answer. Look at the pictures, which may help you.
WHAT --- WHEN --- WHO --- WHY --- WHERE --- HOW --- WHOSE
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1) ___________ did Christopher Columbus discover America? A) It was ”Pepe Botella” (“Bottle Joe”).
2) ___________ was Leonardo da Vinci’s invention of flying B) Six wives, three of them were Catherine
machines a failure? of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour.
3) ___________ was the real name of the Greek painter “El Greco”? C) She was only twelve years old. Her first
novel was Lady Susan (1793-1795).
4) __________ formulated the Theory of Natural Selection in his D) In 1492.

work The Origin of Species (1859)?
5) ___________ did Pope John Paul II die? E) He was Geoffrey Chaucer.
6) ___________was the artist Matisse born? F) He was baptised as Doménicos

Theotokópoulos.
7) ___________ was the first man who walked on the moon? G) That person was Charles Darwin.
8) ___________ was the nickname Joseph Bonaparte was famous for? H) Because they were impractical.
9) ___________ many wives had Henry VIII got? I) He was born in France.
10) __________ old was Jane Austen when she started writing novels? J) He died four years ago, in 2005.
11) Who is the English poet ___________ masterpiece isThe Canterbury K) He was Neil Amstrong.
Tales (late 14th century)?
SPEAKING
Ask general questions to your partner about important facts in history
(discoveries, biographies, etc.) following the model of sentences in previous
exercise. Make use of wh-question words and the Past Simple.
For example: “Why was Napoleon famous for?”

“Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?”
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UNIT 7/sessions
7/sessions 8-
8-9.
PROJECT WORK
INVENTION POSTER
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Different groups of five students will be asigned one of the following

inventions. They must surf the net to continue their evolution through the course
of time. Extract specific information about these aspects:
Who invented/used it for the first time.

When and where it was used and what for.
Success/Failure.
Then, write that information on the centre of a colour card and look for
pictures that show the development of that invention (include dates) and place
around what you write. On the top of the card, write the name of the invention in
capital letters. You must follow this model of presentation.
TELEVISION
Germany, 1956 Poland, 1957
(INFORMATION OVER HERE)
Germany, 1959 21st century
Inventions proposed to you are: PLANE, CAR, ROCKING CHAIR, CLOCK,

BICYCLE.
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BIBLIOGRAFÍA:
La mayoría del trabajo realizado ha sido de elaboración propia. Es decir,
se ha hecho un gran esfuerzo por conseguir actividades originales. No obstante,
también se ha hecho uso de diversas fuentes para hacer posible esta unidad
didáctica.
o Grolier Universal Enciclopedia, New York. 1996.
o http://enwikipedia.org
o http://library.thinkquest.org/5847/games.htm
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DIDACTIC UNIT 7: “Return

“Return to the past”

DIDACTIC UNIT 7: “Return to the past”.

AUTORA: Mª Dolores Jiménez Rodríguez.

Pronunciar correctamente la terminación –ed de los verbos regulares; distinguir los

A) ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, 1876 B) GALILEO GALILEI, 1609

C) THOMAS ALVA EDISON, 1879 D) JOSEPH NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE, 1814

E) THOMAS ALVA EDISON, 1877 F) GUGLIELMO MARCONI, 1895

G) ALEXANDER BAIN, 1843 H) JOHN LOGIE BAIRD, 1825

was famous because she helped everyone through

invented the steam power/created the first car in

was a Classical queen in the Roman Empire/was a

married six times/studied Theology.

5) VINCENT VAN GOGH

loved writing books/painted “The Sunflowers”.

READING :“GALILEO GALILEI”.

1) Complete with information from the text.

1) Lady Diana Spencer _____________ (LIVE) in France.

2) The Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí _____________ (BUILD) the

3) John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, ______________ (BE) an English

4) Valentina Tereschkova was the first woman who _______________

5) “The Beatles” ________________ (SING) “Imagine”.

6) William Shakespeare ________________ (WRITE) Gulliver’s Travels.

7) Elvis Presley ________________ (BE) a popular writer in his lifetime.

8) Louis Braille __________________ (USE) colours in his invention for

A) THE SACRED FAMILY B) SANDWICH

E) UNITED KINGDOM F) RAISED SPOTS ON PAPER

G) DANCER, MUSICIAN, SINGER H) ROMEO AND JULIET

Write the Past Simple of these verbs.

INFINITIVE FORM PAST SIMPLE

LISTENING : “JOHN LENNON”.

7) Luciano Pavarotti died two years ago.

8) Leonardo da Vinci lived in Italy, in the 15th and 16th centuries.

9) Mozart composed operas, piano concertos, etc.

10) People called José Bonaparte “Pepe Botella”.

11) Picasso painted “Guernica”.

/d/ /t/ /Id/

/d/ /t/ /Id/

_____________ cars? _______ bikes? _________ TV? ___ photographs?

__________ by train? _____ by plane? __ telephone calls? ____ typewriters?

__________ records? _______ jeans? _ with ball-point pens? ___ hamburgers?

THE HAMBURGER TELEVISION THE BALL POINT-PEN

hamburgers in first colour TV

BASE FORM PAST SIMPLE REGULAR/IRREGULAR

AMY JOHNSON: ‘Queen of the Air’

Amy Johnson ___________ (BE BORN) on July 1903 in the North

In pairs, go to the Web Page http://library.thinkquest.org/5847/games.htm

4) __________ formulated the Theory of Natural Selection in his D) In 1492.

5) ___________ did Pope John Paul II die? E) He was Geoffrey Chaucer.

6) ___________was the artist Matisse born? F) He was baptised as Doménicos

For example: “Why was Napoleon famous for?”

Different groups of five students will be asigned one of the following

Who invented/used it for the first time.

Germany, 1956 Poland, 1957

(INFORMATION OVER HERE)

Germany, 1959 21st century

Inventions proposed to you are: PLANE, CAR, ROCKING CHAIR, CLOCK,

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_________ cars? _ bikes? _____ TV? _ photographs?

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____ records? _ jeans? _ with ball-point pens? ___ hamburgers?