Teach Past tenses using songs Past Simple Pre-intermediate+ Complete the gaps with the Past Simple form of the verbs in brackets. Listen and check. Set Fire to the Rain (Adele) I let it fall, my heart, You and me together nothing gets better And as it fell you_____(rise) to claim it 'Cause there's a side to you It was dark and I was over That I never ____(know), never ___(know) Until you _____(kiss) my lips and you ____(save) me All the things you'd say My hands, they're strong They ___(be) never true, never true But my knees ___(be) far too weak And the games you play To stand in your arms You would always win, always win Without falling to your feet But there's a side to you Chorus. That I never ___(know), never ____ But I set fire to the rain (know) _____(watch) it pour as I _____(touch) your face All the things you'd say Well, it _____(burn) while I _____(cry) They _____(be) never true, never true 'Cause I ____(hear) it screaming And the games you play Out your name,Your name You would always win, always win I set fire to the rain Chorus: And I ___(throw) us into the flames music video But I set fire to the rain Well, it ____(feel) something ___(die) _____(watch) it pour as I _____(touch) your face 'Cause I___(know) that that was Discuss! Well, it _____(burn) while I _____(cry) The last time, the last time 'Cause I ____(hear) it screaming Sometimes I wake up by the door, Out your name,Your name That heart you ___(catch) must be waiting for you 1. Why do you think the singer decided to set fire to the When I lay with you Even now when we're already over rain? What does it mean? I ___(can) stay there I can't help myself from looking for you 2. Find some lines to prove that these relationships were Close my eyes problematic. Feel you here forever Chorus. Created by Yulia Belonog for Skyteach Past Simple Elementary + Listen and underline the verb you hear. Havana (Camila Cabello) Chorus: Fresh out East Atlanta with no manners, damn Havana, ooh na-na (ay) Fresh out East Atlanta Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh-na-na (ay, ay) Bump on her bumper like a traffic jam He look / took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na Oh, Hey, I was quick to pay / say that girl like Uncle Sam but my heart is in Havana (ay) (here you go, ay) Back it on me, shawty cravin' on me There's somethin' 'bout his manners (uh huh) Get to diggin' on me (on me) Havana, ooh na-na (uh) She waited / greeted on me (then what?) He didn't walk/talk up with that "how you Shawty cakin' on me, got the bacon on me (wait up) doin'?" (uh)(When he came/come in the room) This is history in the makin' on me (on me) He say / said there's a lot of girls I can do with (uh) Point blank, close range, that be (But I can't without you) If it lost / cost a million, that's me (that's me) I met / knew him forever in a minute (hey) I was gettin' mula, man they feel me (That summer night in June) And papa says / said he got malo in him (uh) Chorus. He got / gave me feelin' like Ooh-ooh-ooh, I knew it when I met / let him Take me back, back, back like music video I loved him when I left / lacked him Ooh na-na, oh na-na-na (yeah, babe) Got me feelin' like Take me back, back, back like Ooh-ooh-ooh, and then I had to tell him Ooh na-na, oh na-na-na (yea, yeah) I have / had to go, oh na-na-na-na-na Discuss! Chorus. 1. Do you have favourite places / cities / countries where Jeffery your heart is? Just graduate / graduated, fresh on campus, mm Created by Yulia Belonog for Skyteach Past Simple Intermediate + Complete the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in the Past Simple. try seem spend hold need have tell know bleed have meet buy get play go Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams) I got my first real six-string Back in the summer of sixty-nine, oh ____ it at the five-and-dime Man, we were killin' time, we were young and restless _____ it 'til my fingers ____ We ___ to unwind Was the summer of sixty-nine I guess nothin' can last forever, forever, no Me and some guys from school Yeah ____ a band and we ____ real hard And now the times are changin' Jimmy quit, Jody ____ married Look at everything that's come and gone I should've known we'd never get far Sometimes when I play that old six-string I think about you, wonder what ____ wrong Oh, when I look back now Standin' on your mama's porch... That summer ____ to last forever And if I _____ the choice Yeah, I'd always wanna be there Those were the best days of my life Ain't no use in complainin' When you've got a job to do music video ____ my evenings down at the drive-in And that's when I ____ you, yeah Discuss! Standin' on your mama's porch You ____ me that you'd wait forever Oh, and when you ____ my hand 1. How did you spend time in summer when you were very I _____that it was now or never young? What did you do with your friends? Those were the best days of my life 2. Was that time the best in your life? Oh, yeah Created by Yulia Belonog for Skyteach Past Continuous Pre-intermediate + (age 18+) Listen to the song and correct the mistakes in some lines. Champagne Supernova (Oasis) How many special people change 'Cause people believe that they're How many lives were living strange Gonna get away for the summer Where were you when were getting high? But you and I, we live and die Slowly walk down the hall The world's still spinning round Faster than a cannon ball We don't know why Where were you when we were getting high? Why, why, why, why Chorus: How many special people change Some day you will find me How many lives were living strange Caught beneath the landslide Where were you when we were getting high? In a champagne supernova in the sky Slowly walk down the hall Some day you will find me Faster than a cannon ball Caught beneath the landslide Where were you when we were getting high? In a champagne supernova A champagne supernova in the sky Chorus. Wake up the dawn and ask her why music video A dreamer dreams she never dies Wipe that tear away now from your eye Slowly walk down the hall Faster than a cannon ball Where were you when we were getting high? Chorus. Created by Yulia Belonog for Skyteach Past Simple, used to and Past Perfect Intermediate+ Number the lines in the correct order in each paragraph. Then look at the highlighted phrases. What tenses are they and why are they used here? Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye) ___Like when you said you felt so happy you ___I guess that I don't need that though could die ___No, you didn't have to stoop so low ___But felt so lonely in your company ___Now you're just somebody that I used to know ___Told myself that you were right for me (3 times) ___But that was love and it's an ache I still remember ___But had me believing it was always something _1__Now and then I think of when we were that I'd done together _1__Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over ___Well you said that we would still be friends ___But I don't wanna live that way ___But I'll admit that I was glad it was over ___You said that you could let it go ___Like resignation to the end, always the end __1__You can get addicted to a certain kind of ___Reading into every word you say sadness ___And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody ___So when we found that we could not make that you used to know sense Chorus. music video Chorus. _1__But you didn't have to cut me off ___Have your friends collect your records and then change your number ___And I don't even need your love Discuss! ___But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough 1. When people break up is it better to be friends or cut ___Make out like it never happened and that we each other off? were nothing Created by Yulia Belonog for Skyteach Past Simple, Present Perfect and Past Perfect Intermediate+ Listen and complete the gaps with the words you here. Goodbye My Lover (James Blunt) Did I disappoint you or let you down? I am a dreamer but when I wake, Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown? You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take. 'Cause I saw the end before we____ _____, And as you move on, remember me, Yes I saw you ____ ______ and I knew I ___ ____ Remember us and all we___ ____ ____ had won.