Objectives & Sequence: This activity is intended to be used as a review of Grammar 3-1.
Students work in pairs and open the corresponding pages below. Listed on each page are actions each person's partner did in the past. For each action, students should ask their partners why they did these things. Partners should listen and pretend they indeed did the things. For each action, they should come up with a reason for doing it on the spot. They should explain the reason in the Past Simple, Continuous, or Past Perfect Simple.
On Student One's Page: Your partner didn't pay a landing fee yesterday.
Why didn't you pay a landing fee at the airport yesterday?
I didn't pay a landing fee at the airport because the airport office was closed.
- Your partner had to walk from his aircraft to the flight operations office.
- Your partner's aircraft burned up in a fire yesterday.
- Your partner's friend got very upset with the aircraft's belly landing last week.
- Your partner contacted the insurance company about the aircraft's damaged landing gear.
- Your partner had to go the weather briefing office.
- Your partner dropped his or her flight computer on the ground.
- Your partner landed his aircraft during a heavy thunderstorm.
- Your partner took a photo of the crash site.
- Your partner slept outside all night beside his downed aircraft.
- Your partner screamed when seeing the flock of birds.
- Your partner stole an aircraft from the airport.
- Your partner broke the windscreen during a bird strike.
- Your partner bought a really expensive aircraft.
- Your partner got a bad sunburn while flying in an open cockpit airplane.
- Your partner woke up at 2 PM yesterday in the hospital after the aircraft accident.
- Your partner broke his finger propping the aircraft last week.