Point to the speech bubble in the picture of activity 1b. Let students practice the conversation between Tina and Kevin in pairs.

　　Call attention to the questions:

　　Did you ...?

　　Were there ...?

　　And their answers:

　　Yes, I did. No, I didn't.

　　Yes, there were. No. there weren't.

　　Then call attention to the picture at the top of the page. Ask:

　　T: Did Tina buy a souvenir?

　　S: No, she didn't. Her friend Grace bought a souvenir.

　　T: Did Laura buy a souvenir?

　　S: No, she didn't. She ate some ice cream.

　　Have students work in pairs and make more conversations about Joe, Toby and Grace.

　　Then divide the class into two groups (Group A and Group B), do some practice with the simple past tense.

　　A student from group A gives a sentence in present simple, and a student from group B change it into simple past. For example:

　　A: We go to the zoo every week.

　　B: We went to the zoo yesterday.

Step IV Summary and Homework