Alibi! What Were you Doing Yesterday at Lunchtime?

Wednesday 4^th March

Hi guys! How R U?

We started last class with some exercises about past simple and past continuous.

Don’t forget that we use past continuous for an action in progress at a specific time in the past. Past simple is a completed, finished action in the past.

We were walking along the beach when we saw a snake.

 long action / action in progress                  Short action that interrupts the other action

When they arrived in New York, it was snowing.

Short action that interrupts the other action long action / action in progress

We read a story about a girl that went to Los Angeles.

She was staying at her cousin’s house. One day, they went out for lunch. They were sitting at their table in the restaurant, when her cousin’s mobile rang. While her cousin was talking on her mobile, she saw Johnny Depp was sitting at the next table. She got up and asked him to have their photo taken. She gave her camera to a waitress and the waitress took the photo of them. When her cousin came back, she told her what had happened. Her cousin started laughing and told her that he wasn’t Johnny Depp! When she looked at the man at the next table, he was still laughing!

Then, we played a game: Alibi.

First, we read the news item: ‘Lunchtime bank robbery in town’.

Two robbers escaped with £500,000 yesterday lunchtime from the Thrift Bank. Police believe it was a well- planned crime carried out (executed) by experienced criminals.

Police arrested two suspects: Nick Cash and Robert Loo. They are friends and have set up (established) an alibi. They say they were together the whole day yesterday. The police officers must try to dismantle (destroy) their alibi.

So, we split the class into two groups. One made up by police officers and the other one by suspects. Suspects had some time to prepare their alibis and then, they were taken to the police station for an interrogatory.

In my opinion they were guilty (the opposite of innocent). Their alibies didn’t hold. There were many contradictions. But, I’m afraid the police officers weren’t very good and they left the criminals free…

And we finished the class reading about ‘British youngest millionaire’.

Tom Hartley made his first million at the age of 14. The teenager became Britain’s youngest millionaire selling luxury sports cars with his father, who owns a car company.

He says he’s good at buying and selling cars.

What are you good at? / What are you bad at?

I’m very bad at remembering names. I’m good at writing, but I’m helpless (very bad) at IT!

          GAME 8

Player 1	7
Player 2	5
Player 3	5
Player 4	10
Player 5	5
Player 6	7
Player 7	8

See you on Wednesday!!!

And … that was it!