Titolo della lezione: Imperative

- Past simple regular and irregular verbs-

Prepositions of place - 2

Imperative
Past simple regular and irregular verbs
Prepositions of place - 2
 Imperative

‰ Speak up! Be quiet! Silence!

‰ Don’t smoke!
‰ Don’t walk on the grass! Don’t feed the birds!

‰ drink come
‰ pay eat
‰ hurry slow down
‰ stop
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Affirmative – come l’infinito senza ‘to’

Commandi Come here! Wait! (Aspetta! Aspettate! “Lei” Aspetti!)

Esortazioni Drink the medicine! Brush your teeth!
Avvertimenti Turn left at the traffic lights. Drive slowly through towns.
 Past simple - positive

Person Positive - corrisponde al passato prossimo o anche al passato remoto

(I) I worked in the London office last week.

(you) You waited in a queue for three hours.
(he / she) He / She worked until 9:00 o’clock.
(we ) We lived in a busy street.
(you) You worked 12 hours a day.
(they) They attended (sono stati) the meeting yesterday.
 Past simple – regular verbs

‰ work clean start stay +ed

‰ arrive +d = arrived
‰ dance +d = danced
‰ live +d = lived

‰ study = stud +i +ed = studied

‰ copy = cop +i +ed = copied
‰ try = tr +i +ed = tried
‰ plan stop = planned stopped
 Past simple – irregular verbs
(vedere appendici 2-3 libro di testo)

verb Past Simple verb Past simple

begin began get got

break broke give gave
bring brought go went
build built have had
buy bought hear heard
catch caught know knew
come came leave left
do did lose lost
drink drank make made
eat ate meet met
fall fell pay paid
find found put put
fly flew read read
forget forgot ring rang
 Prepositions of place – 2
in

in – non corrisponde sempre alla preposizione italiana ‘in’

in hospital; in bed

in the newspaper / magazine

the biggest / poorest in the world

in Milan; in Oslo; in New York

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on

on – non corrisponde sempre alla preposizione italiana ‘su’

on the ground floor;

on the first floor;
on the second floor

The office is on the left / on the right.

 Prepositions of place-2
at

at – non corrisponde sempre alla preposizione italiana ‘a’

at my sister’s; at the doctor’s

at the dentist’s

at the top of the page;

at the bottom of the page;
in the middle of the page.

at the beginning of the day;

at the end of the day;
in the middle of the day.