Past Si Complete the sentences with was or were, ‘My grandparents __ert’_maried for more than fifty years, When | in Berlin lost year the weather very cold, How many people _ there at the party? Where ___you on Saturday evening? rt «@ beautiful day in August. My family ond!_____on holiday et the seaside, George ot shoo! today? How _____your first day at work? tt very nice to meet you, Mr Brown. Short answers Short answers with was and were Question Short answer Was theishe! Yes, vheisheilt was, tow No, heishelit wasn't Were youlwe! Yes, youwwelthey were. they aK? No, yourwerthey weren't Read about the famous people on pages 39 and 40. Complete the questions and write the short answers. 1 2 Mark Twain American writer ~ born 1835 — died 1910 Mark Twain painter? as, No. hie suis Wis he American? Yes. he ws, 3 6 Film actor ~ born London 1889 ~ died Switzerland 1977 —— Charlie Chaplin born in Americu? he an actor? The Marx Brothers American comedians ~all born in Germany the Marx Brathers born in the USA? _ they comedians? Anna Pavlova Russian dancer ~ died 1931 Anna Pavlova Russian? she a singer? 39and jaizinho Brazilian ~ the 1970 World Cup team Pelé and Joizinho from Argentina? 10 ___ they footballers? (EIR Listen and check. Practise saying the questions and answers. Years, decades and centuries Write the dates in full, as in the example. a Disco music was very popular ht sewnties.__ (1970-1979) The Athens Olympic Games were _ (2004) © fuan Peron was president of Argentina (2946-1955) d__ Elvis Presley was popular _ (2950-1959) The Italian poet Dante was born _ (1200-1299) Yugoslavia were world basketball champions (1998) Abdul-Aziz was king of Saudia Arabia - (1932-1953) hh Catherine the Great was Empress of Russia (2790-1799) 40 Past simple Spelling of -ed endings A, Wie the Past simple tense ofthe verbs a like tikal —g play b enjoy h believe © travel i arrive = d study ty oe © look k receive f dance 1 stay 7 Regular verbs [> Complete the sentences with the Past simple of ) the verbs in the box. graduate study change try start die work end live helo walk a My brother __graduuated__ last year. He was at Glasgow University. b_ The Second World War ___in 1939, and six years later, in 1945. Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, in 1977. There were no more buses, so I home «When J was at school, my parents often me with my homework ba French when I was at school, but 1 don’t remember very much now. al to phone you last aight, but there was no answer, fh When he vcs @ young musician, Reg Dwight his name to Elton John {The composer Chopin was bom in Poland, but he __in France for many years. be in cinema for a big computer company in the nineties.Irregular verbs 6 Complete the sentences with the past forms of the verbs in brackets. “Three child stars of the past Mozart. a _wrote write ‘music when he was five years old; b (eave) home when he was only twelve years old; © _____@ to live in Vienna when he was 25 years old, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - composer Donny Osmond a (begin) singing on television at the age of five; e (sing) with his five brothers in the Osmond Brothers; Gell) millions of records before he was 18, Shirley Temple ... Donny Osmond = pop star Prepositions of time Complete the sentences with at, from, in, on orto ‘The economic situation in our country became much better__it__the 1990s. b The caté is open 8.30 in the moming about eleven o'dock in the evening. © We arived at the hetel about eleven o'clock We decided to have our holidays September, when it’ not so hot e the age of seven, Vanessa started dancing lessons. ft stayed at home Friday because I had s0 much work to do. 1 was born 1986, 1h There was a war between the two countries the nineteenth century. Pronunciation Past tense endings 8 Look at the pairs of past forms below. Is the pronunciation of the underlined sounds the same (5) or different (0)? her first i (win) fan Oscar in 1934; — (become) 4@ politician in the 1970s. 1 tought caught os 2 wrote cost pr 3 said read 7 4 put cut S saw found 6 came gave = 7 ost cost 8 took stood 9 wore caught Shirley Temple = actress 10 heart = won b Listen and check. Practise saying the words, aHt Wes module 7 — - Regular and irregular verbs Complete the text about Amelia Earhart, using the correct form of the verbs. Seventy years ago, Amelia Zarhart (1) _ws (be) America's favourite woman, In 1932, she Q) (fly) across the Atlantic Ocean alone: the first woman to do this, Her joumey (3) (start) in Newfoundland, Canada: fifteen hours later, her Lockhced Vega airplane (4)____ (arrive) in Londonderry, Ireland. People all over the world 6) (vant) to mest this incredible women. She (6) (meet) King George V of England and (7) (become) friends with the US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The American people (8) love) her Five years later, Amelia (9) _ttry) 0 fly around the world. An American University (10) __ (give) her $50,000 for a new Lockheed Electra airplane, On the morning of July 2nd 1927, Amelia and her co-pilot, Fred Noonan (i1)_____ (leave) Lae, in New Guinea, and (2) (begin) their journey 10 Howland Island in the Pacifie Ocean, On July 3rd 1937, the American ship /tasca 3) (receive) a radio message from Amelia: a few minutes later her plane «4, (disappear), American ships sy (spend) nearly two weeks looking for the plane, but they (16) (find) nothing b GEEED Usten and check your answers. 42 Ordinal num 1 Write an ordinal number to complete the sentences. Use the numbers in brackets to help you. a Ronald Reagan was the fortieth President of the United States. (40) b May isthe __ month in the year. (5) © Ourapartment is on the_____ floor. (8) Beethoven wrote his music in the __ century. (19) Brazil won the World Cup for the time in 1994, (4) f ‘The Berlin Wall fell near the end of the century. (20) g Neil Armstrong was the man on the moon, and Buzz Aldrin was the (aay hh My sister's birthday is on the _ of August, 22 Dates 1 4 Write the dates in full ' Sth Feb jebrusry the fifth 30th Jan a © 17th Nov — @ 12th Aug © 2ist Sep __— f 9th Apr -Choose the correct time phrase Gs pe ° c ignnenmmny pcr mtsnnoat bt visited my fends in Canada thee years ago / every year. ¢-My family lived in the United States now / r + when Eas a child, d- We met Greg and Sonia when we are on holiday / ‘when we were on holiday. © I work in Slovenia every summer /last summer, ‘We watched television every evening / yesterday. evening 9. People usually to go university when they are eighteen J when they were eighteen, hh Jen spoke to her mother every week / a week ago. Common verbs Label the pictures on the right with the words in the box. ‘break build catch cut fall run throw wake up win Here are the past forms of the verbs in the box. Write the infinitive forms, 1 broke neal 2 caught _ 3. built ——— 4 threw —_ 5 wake up — 6 ran 7 stole i 8 tell a 9 cut — 10 won Listen to the pronunciation of the infinitive and past forms. Practise saying them,| Ne modu The > Strange . Soldier twas a beautiful sunny morning in Mexico City. The date was October 10th, the year was 1593. Inthe main square of the city, soldiers stood in front of the Royal Palace. The people of the city came and went as usual. But there vwas something strange about one of the soldiers: he wore a different uniform from the others, and had a different type of gun. When the other soldiers saw him, they began asking him questions. ‘Who are you? Where are you | from’ one of the other soldiers asked. ‘ama | Spanish soldier’ he answered ‘and because the governor died lastnight, it is my job to stay in front of the palace here’ ‘The governor?’ one Of the soldiers replied, ‘Which governor?” ‘The governor of Manila, of course. The other soldiers told him he was in | Mexico City ~ thousands of kilometres from the city of Manila, The young soldier was amazed and had no idea how he came to be in a city so far from his home. Nobody believed his strange story. In the end, they put the young man in prison, and left him there until they decided what to do. Two months later, a Spanish ship arrived from Manila It brought news that the governor of Manila was dead — and the time of his death was 10 pm on the evening of October Sth, 1593. Was the young man’s story true? Four hundred years later, no one knows how it was possible for a man to travel across the world in one night ... without knowing how or why.