English III · A1.3. National Autonomous University of Honduras, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Department of Foreign Languages, English Section. PhD. Bessy Mendoza, MSc. Leonel Madrid. Students planning together on campus, with the flag of Canada, autumn maple leaves, mountains and Toronto.
English III · Lesson 8 · Step 1 of 5

URA + SofIA: Lesson URA and SofIA assistants

Resource · not graded
What you bring
From Lesson 7 (Where did you go?): your product, your glossary and «I can use was and were.»
What this prepares you for
The forum asks you to use Irregular past + did questions with your classmates.

Goal of the lesson

I can describe places I visited and activities I did.

Puedo describir lugares que visité y actividades que hice.

Open the URA of Lesson 8 · I PAC

The URA has the explanation, audio, examples by career and the Cultural Corner of the I PAC. Take notes: you will use them in the forum.

Irregular past + did questions

Irregular: go → went · see → saw · eat → ate · take → took · buy → bought. Questions: Did you go…? What did you do? Negative: didn't + verb.

Example
Irregular +We went to the museum and saw dinosaurs.
−We didn't take a taxi.
?Did you eat local food? — Yes, I did.
Wh-?Where did you stay? What did you buy?
En español

Con «did» y «didn't» el verbo vuelve a su forma base: «Did you see…?» (no «Did you saw»).

Your AI assistants: SofIA

Recommended for this lesson: SofIA Gramatical, about irregular past verbs and did questions. SofIA asks your name, your career and your lesson, then helps you step by step. It explains, gives hints and helps you create your own mini-lesson, flashcards or practice. It never does graded work for you.

Available: SofIA Gramatical · SofIA Léxica · SofIA Fonética · SofIA Comunicativa · SofIA Profesional · SofIA Cultural.

Open SofIA for Lesson 8 · I PAC

Your career, your examples

I PAC · January – MayHeritage & festivalMarch – April · approx.Quebec and Ontario, Canada

Cultural Corner · Sugar shack season (cabane à sucre)

This week: In spring, Quebec families go to a sugar shack. Imagine your visit: «We went… We ate…».

First Nations people made maple syrup a long time ago. Last spring, families visited sugar shacks. They ate maple taffy on snow.

Key words

  • maple syrup jarabe de arce
  • sap savia
  • snow nieve

Fact

Canada produces about 70% of the world's maple syrup. Most of it comes from Quebec.

Your career

  • Health sciences: Sugar and nutrition.
  • Engineering & technology: How sap becomes syrup.
  • Business & economics: Exports and farms.
  • Education, humanities & communication: French and English names.
  • Environment, agriculture & tourism: Maple forests and climate.
Mirror Honduras. Which product from Honduras goes to many countries? (Coffee? Bananas?)

Official source

Mission: Find what percentage of the world's maple syrup comes from Canada. Write it.

Cultural competency: I can say what Sugar shack is (March – April), use Irregular past + did questions to talk about it, and compare it with Honduras.

See it in my I PAC Cultural Passport

Language bridge · plurilingual and intercultural

Use every language you know to learn English, and use English to understand other people.

English ↔ SpanishNotice the difference

Questions with did use the base form: Did you go? (not «did you went»).

Other languagesFrench · Portuguese · Italian · German

English and German are «cousins»: go–went / gehen–ging · drink–drank / trinken–trank.

Observe, compare, reflectIntercultural

Places important to Indigenous peoples, like Haida Gwaii (Canada) or Copán (Honduras), have rules for visitors. Find one and explain why it matters.

Mediation challengeBuild a bridge for someone

Read a classmate's travel log and draw the route on a map for another classmate.

Your languages count: ask at home or in your community how to say it in Garífuna, Miskitu, the English of the Bay Islands or any other language you know, and add it to your glossary. Add it to «My languages» in your Passport →

Arts Corner · FilmQuebec, Canada · 1980

The Sweater

Sheldon Cohen (NFB); story by Roch Carrier

A boy loves hockey and the Montreal Canadiens. His mother orders a new sweater… but the store sends the wrong team!

You use it in: 4 · Assignment · Activity 29

Para docentes

Fuente de datos: data/source/in103_lessons.js (lección 8). Ingreso al UNAH Virtual Campus: data/links.json. H5P (práctica del sitio y calificado del Campus): data/h5p/. Anuncios: data/anuncios.json. Títulos y porcentajes según el Calendario. Inglés I: 12 lecciones (decisión de la Sección, 26-10-2026); las actividades 1–38 no cambian. Regenerar con python3 generator/build.py.