9 SurvivorsGrammar The past simple tense: regular verbs Grammar in use 1 Look at the picture and the conversation.. Use the past simple tense with regular verbs.. a Find the past simple
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Grammar
The past simple tense: regular verbs
Grammar in use
1 Look at the picture and the conversation Who are the three people?
2 9.1 Read and listen to the conversation Choose the countries that Alexei
lived in, and put them in the correct order.
Madelaine Who’s this?
Adam That’s my great-grandfather, Alexei He was born in Russia, but after the
Revolution he moved to Sweden
Madelaine Did he stay in Sweden?
Adam No, he didn’t He stayed there for only a few months, I think Then he moved
to France He didn’t stay there very long, either
Madelaine Oh, what did he do?
Adam Will, he wanted to go back to Russia, but it was too dangerous So he
decided to come to the USA
Madelaine And did he stay here?
Adam Yes, he did
Madelaine Is he still alive?
Adam No he died in 1980, when he was 84
AIMS:
1 Use the past simple tense with regular verbs.
2 Use some prepositions of movement.
3 Use ago in the past simple tense.
4 Pronounce the past tense -ed
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a Find the past simple forms of these verbs Write them in the table
present past
stay
want
move
decide
die
_
_
_
_
_
b How do we make the past simple tense?
c 9.1 Listen to the conversation again What do you notice about the verbs want and
decide?
2 Complete these sentences from the conversation.
He _ there for only a few months _ he _ in Sweden?
He there very long.
a How do we make questions and negatives in the past simple tense?
b Which part of the verb do we use after did or didn’t?
3 Choose the correct form of the verbs.
1 ‘Did he liked Sweden?’ ‘Yes, he did.’
like liked.’
2 ‘Did he stay in France?’ ‘No, he didn’t.’
stayed didn’t stay.’
3 He didn’t wanted to leave Russia.
want
Practice
1 Adam is talking about his great-grandfather Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple tense.
1 He (want) to stay in Russia, but it (be) too dangerous.
2 When he (be) in France, he (work) in a factory.
3 When he (arrive) in the USA, he (live) in Boston.
4 But then he (move) to Los Angeles in California.
5 He (like) California, so he (decide) to stay there.
6 Later he (open) a music shop.
7 When he (be) an old man, he (return) to Russia for a holiday.
8 He (die) before I (be) born.
2 Make these sentences negative.
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2 He stayed in Sweden for a long time
3 He lived in England for two years
4 He worked in a hotel in Paris
5 He enjoyed his job in France
6 He traveled to the USA by plane
7 He liked Boston
8 He moved to San Francisco
9 He started a film company
10 He died when Adam was two years old
3 Adam and Madelaine are talking about Adam’s great-grandmother.
a Make Madelaine’s questions
die before you were born?
Where / live in the USA?
want to work in films?
Why / decide to leave Ireland?
When / her family move to the States?
stay there?
succeed?
Adam This is my great-grandmother, Sheena
Madelaine
Adam No, she wasn’t She was born in Ireland
Madelaine
Adam Her parents moved there when Sheena was still a child
Madelaine
Adam They wanted to find a better life
Madelaine
Adam They lived in New York when they first arrived
Madelaine
Adam Her parents did, but Sheena decided to go to Hollywood
Madelaine
Adam Yes, she wanted to be an actress
Madelaine
Adam No, she didn’t then she married my great-grandfather, Alexei
Madelaine
Adam No, she didn’t She died when she was 96, so I can remember her
b 9.2 Listen and check your answers
4 Write about Adam’s great-grandmother.
E XAMPLE
Adam’s great-grandmother’s name was Sheena She was born …
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Vocabulary
Verbs
1 Match the verbs and the pictures
Use a dictionary to help you.
2 Complete these sentences Use verbs
from exercise 1 in the past tense.
1 I out of the house and
on the bus
2 The little boy when
someone his ice cream
3 ‘I love you,’ she , and
then she goodbye
4 I the bag, but it was very
heavy and it out of my
hands
3 Some verbs in English have two
parts Match the verbs and the
pictures.
look back look up look down
Reading and writing
Chairlift terror
1 Look at the picture and find these things Use a dictionary to help you.
chair chairlift operator helicopter coat the ground
2 Look quickly at the paragraphs.
1 Who are the woman and the boy?
2 Where did the accident happen?
3 Did the boy fall?
3 Read the paragraphs.
Number them in the correct order.
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Then suddenly the chairlift stopped and Luke slipped from the chair Fran grabbed his hand and stopped him just
in time She tried to pull the child back into the chair, but he was too heavy
‘Help! Help!’ she shouted
But Luke didn’t fall The chairlift operator climbed up to the chair and helped Fran
to hold her son About five minutes later
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a Look at the diagrams.
b Use the table Make a sentence with each
preposition.
They
climbed
walked
up round through into over down out of under
the window.
the tree.
the wall.
the park.
the house.
the hill.
c Draw pictures of three of your sentences
Show them to your partner says the
sentence.
the police helicopter arrived and lifted
Luke into the chair.
People looked up and screamed Luke
was 20 metres above the ground
Someone telephoned for a helicopter and
people hurried to put coats on the
ground under the boy.
It was a normal day at the Dreamland
theme park in Wellington, New Zealand,
and young Luke Mansen wanted to go on
the Skyrider chairlift With his mother,
Fran, he waited for a chair When it
arrived, he jumped in and Fran followed
him.
Everybody watched and waited while up
in the chair Fran talked to Luke: ‘Don’t
look down, Luke Hold on.’ Every second
was like a lifetime and the child started
to cry ‘I can’t hold on, ’he whispered
‘Goodbye, Mum.’
The chair moved out into the sunshine It
was a warm, sunny day, so there were
thousands of people at the park As the
chair lifted Fran and Luke up into the sky
they looked down, and Luke waved to
the people on the ground It was Luke’s
first time in a chairlift and he was very
excited.
4 A TV reporter interviewed Fran.
a Here are the questions Write Fran’s answers.
1 Why did Luke slip from the chair?
2 How did you stop him?
3 Why didn’t you pull him back into the
chair?
4 How high up were you?
5 What did the people on the ground do?
6 Did Luke cry?
7 How did the chairlift operator help you?
8 What did the helicopter do?
b Work with a partner Roleplay the interview.
Language focus: Past simple tense spelling
a Find the past tenses of these verbs in the
story.
slip try
grab hurry
b What do you notice about the spelling?
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a Choose the correct answers
1 What is the woman’s name?
Eileen
Ida
Morna
2 What is the name of her house?
Orchard Cottage
Riverside Cottage
Bramble Cottage
3 What is Sainsbury’s
a supermarket
a hotel
a property company
4 What did they want to do?
to sell her cottage to move her cottage to knock down her cottage
5 When did it happen?
last year two months ago two years ago
6 How old is the woman?
69 75 79
b How did the woman feel about the
Listening and speaking
‘I don’t want to move!’
1 Look at the picture You’re going
to hear an interview What do you
think the interview is about?
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Look at this sentence.
They wanted to buy the land two years ago.
a Compare it with your language.
b Answer these questions with ago.
1 When were you born?
2 When was your last holiday?
3 When did you start learning English?
4 When did the dinosaurs die out?
5 When did you have breakfast?
6 When did this lesson start?
7 When did you start this book?
8 When did you last play any sport?
3 9.3 Listen to the interview.
a What happened?
b 9.3 Listen again and complete these
sentences
1 Why did Sainsbury’s _ _ _
_ _ _?
2 How much _ _ _ _ you?
3 So what _ _ _ _?
4 _ _ _ lot of money.
5 Did you have _ _ _ _?
6 The manager _ _ _ _ _
_ supermarket
4 Look at the lists.
a Match the verbs with the correct items
(Some go with more than one.)
offer to open the supermarket
refuse £ 125,000
invite holiday
add to stay in her home
plant to build a car park
b Make complete sentences.
E XAMPLE
Sainsbury’s wanted to build a car park.
c 9.3 Listen again and check your
ideas
manager of Sainsbury’s, the other is the reporter Roleplay the interview.
6 Write a newspaper article about the story Use your answers to exercises 2 and 4.
_ lives at _ Cottage Two years ago…
Pronunciation
/U/, /u:/; -ed endings
1 The sounds /U/ and /u:/
a 9.3 Listen and repeat the sounds and
the words
could put through June
b Write these words in the correct column.
Compare your ideas with a partner
look would fruitbook sugarfood schoolgood bluesoon tooksupermarket
c 9.5 Listen, check and repeat.
d Say these sentences.
1 The cook put too much sugar in the
food
2 In June I took some fruit to school.
3 You look good in blue.
4 The two cookbooks are in the front
room
2 -ed endings
We can pronounce the past tense –ed in
the three ways
a 9.6 Listen Match the verbs and the
endings
played returned finished looked ended waited
/t/
/id/
/d/
b Which ending do we use after
• a vowel sound or a voiced consonant? _
• a voiceless consonant? _
• -t and -d? _
c Write the verbs in the correct column.
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washed
jumped
added
stopped
lifted needed pronounced
accepted tried invited
d Compare your ideas with a partner.
e 9.7 Listen, check and repeat.
EXERCISES
Past simple: Regular verbs
1 What did the people so last Saturday
afternoon?
a Match the verbs and expressions
visit
paint
practise
listen to
clean
finish
look after
play
basketball the car the neighbour’s baby their grandparents her homework
a CD the front door the piano
b Complete these sentences
1 Giulio listened to a CD
2 Anna ………
3 Mrs Dunn ………
4 Justin and Paul ………
5 Mr Kaminski ………
6 Antoinette ………
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8 Beth and Carmen ………
2 Did you do the things in the pictures last weekend? I listened to a CD / I didn’t listento a CD. 1 ………
2 ………
3 ………
………
4 ………
5 ………
6 ………
………
7 ………
………
8 ………
………
3 Look at the pictures in exercise 1 Complete the questions and give short answers. 1 (Giulio) Did Giulio watch a film on TV? No, he didn’t a 2 (Anna) Did Anna finish her homework?a Yes, she did A 3 (Mrs Dunn) ……… the car? ………
4 (Justin and Paul) ………
basketball? ………
5 (Mr Kaminski) ………
a CD? ………
6 (Antoinette) ………
The neighbour’s baby? ………
7 (Bobby) ……… the piano? ………
8 (Beth and Carmen) ………
……… their grandparents? ………
Years 4 Complete the table We write We say 2010 …………
1812 …………
1066 …………
1929 …………
2002 …………
2150 …………
twenty ten a nineteen oh six ………
nineteen forty-five ………
seventeen fifteen ………
nineteen ninety-seven ………
sixteen fifty ………
nineteen oh six 5 Complete these sentences Use the verb look in the past simple tense and these words. up down back through round into out of 1 There was a noise behind me, so I
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4
5
6
When we were in the chairlift we …
……… There were a lot
of people below us They …………
and wave
At the Science Museum we ………
……… telescope at the sky
I ……… the room, but
there was nobody there
The car moved away When I ……
……… , Maria was still there on
the steps
When someone arrived at the front
door, I ……… the
window to see who it was
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6 Complete the story with these words.
start decided tired looked on sky mountain walking shouted
nobody into down in arrived above stopped dark
Terence Magee likes walking in the mountains Last week he was ………
holiday with his family ……… Scotland One afternoon he was on his way
……… a mountain when he ……… at a chairlift There was ……… on it But Mr Magee was ………, so he jumped ……… one of the chairs and the chairlift lifted him up into the ………
A few seconds later the lift ……… Mr Magee waited, but the lift didn’t ……… again He ……… down He was about fifteen metres ……… the ground, so he
……… that it wasn’t a good idea to jump down He waved and ……… , but it was no good There was nobody on the ……… soon it was ……… and it was very cold
Pronunciation
7 Tick the verbs that have an extra syllable in the past tense.
1 want
2 decide
3 marry
4 arrest
5 listen
6 change
7 dance
8 pain
9 visit
10 prefer
wanted decided married arrested listened changed danced painted visited preferred
11 tidy
12 wait
13 laugh
14 succeed
15 add
16 accept
17 hurry
18 lift
19 slip
20 wave
tidied waited laughed succeeded added accepted hurried lifted slipped waved
8 In some of these lines one of the words has a different vowel sound Tick the lists which have an odd one out and circle the odd one out.
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2 brush
3 fruit
4 good
5 lunch
6 menu
7 fly
mug just June afternoon pub excuse guy
drum put umbrella look club music buy
8 food
9 bus
10 under
11 could
12 turn
13 school
14 refuse
soon blue fun would nurse cook usually
door juice sunny through surname too student