Pre-Int Unit 2
Pre-Int Unit 2
Pre-Int Unit 2
l': Read the article quickty and decide which ofthese tjtLes fits best.
a The iirst television programmes
b Telev sion past and fltufe
c F |sts in telev]s on technology
veryone knows that S@lsmar and the company paid just $9lo show
John Logie Baird invenled ihe iidurinq a baseballgame in New York.
liEitelevision: n th€ 6arly 1920s, Techno ogy sraned to develop laster
he made a basictelevlslon whtch a.d fasier in theseond halfoilhe 20th
transmtled pictures, buihe didn't devetop c€nlury ColourTV came io lhe USA in the
his idealurlh€r But nol manypeope know 1950s, io Japan in 1960andlo Europeand
that Vlad mnZworykin, a Russian lnvenior, Solth America in rhe late 1960s dd eany
invenied tho f rst '€ ectronic ielevision in 1970s. [4eanwhib, in 1967 peoplea]lover
1929. People otl€n call h m 'the father of lhe world watched as The Beatlessahg
le ev s on' as his inventon becam€ ihe on the progEmme our world, rhe ii6i
basls of al modern televisions- ever satollite TV pDgramme. The woddis
firsl video recordeB came from Japan n
The BBC (rhe Brirish Broadcasri.g
the mid 1 970s, but DVD p ayers didn't
Corporalion) made its iksi TV progra.nmes
appear untilNovember 1996, also made by
in 1936. Mosi people didn'twaich, as
there were only aboLt 100 te evlsion
sets in Bniain atthatrime. Thee were From 2005, il became poss ble 10 watch
programmes ior only lwo holrs a day TV on your mobie phon€, thafksto 3G
except Sundays, whenihey didn i show technology- The firsi country io change
any progrmmes at alll As w€llas news lrom analogue todjgira television was
ano spons, @oKery programmes were the USAi. June 2009. Canada and Japan
popular even in the 1930si Frenchman didthe same in 2011. Peopewatched
Marcel Boulesiin became lhe lirsl TV chef the liisi TV programme near y 80 y€ars
in 1937, The lirst ry adved,ln 1941, was ago. Afier the huqe changes i. television
for a Bu ova clock; t lasied 20 s€concls broadcasting in the20rh cent!ry who
krows what the nexi 80 yea6 wilbring?
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3a Answer the questions betow using the
words from exercise 2,
How do you nofmally feet:
1 if there's footbatl on TV?
2 just before an important exarn?
3 ifyou can't femember someone's name?
4 with people you don't know w€t[?
5 when you finish schoo[/work?
6 if you lose your mobi[e phone?
7 ii yo! go to watch a big rock concert?
8 ifyoule late for school/work?
9 ifyou see a bigspider?
10 ifyour English Lesson is cancelled?
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I PRACTICE 1
Past simple - positive and negative
1 Rewrite the sentences in the Pastsimpte.
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3 l don'tgethomeuntilmidnight.
In the negative form, we use d/d + the base foftn of the verb.
4 The match beginsatS:30 p.m.
5 They worry about iheir eEms.
--:-- 6 f4y brotherand lstop eatingmeat-
lAoL/He/SheltAVef hey started. 7 They are verytired.
lAoL/He/5he/ltA{e/-hey won. 8 He doesn't travel very much.
9 f4y sister travels a lot forwork.
lAoL/He/5he/lt^Ve/-heydidnt{-drd.orJ start. 10 The shops aren'topen.
rAoL/He/she/rr^Ve/-h?,grd:., {' dl9.-11 y. . Complete the senten.es with th€ Past silnpL€ forft ofthe verb
. We use the Past simple to talk about a finished action or state in
the past.ltcan besomethlngthat happened once or manytimes. 1 In 1900theU5A_(win)thefirst DavisCup
We often saywhen it happeied. tennis competition.
He died in 198a. F once) 2 In 1911 RoaldAmundsenfrom NoMay_(become)
l\,1y fathet alwaystookne to schaaLwhen I was yaung. the first person to reachthe south Pole.
3 In 1920 the British writer Agatha Christie _ (write)
We ltved in avery shall hause r #oje day5. (= state) her first aetective novel.
. For regular verbs, we add -ed (warche4 sfaded). But ther€ are 4 h 1930 a NewYork busiiesman, Clarence Birdseye
some ex.eptions. (mak€) the firsi frczen vegetabtes.
5 In 194o Anrerican soldieB_{d ve) the firstleepso.
: Exampte 6 In 1 950 peopte (use) the flBt Diner's CLub' credit
card to pay for dinner ord nks-
rliked the fiLm.
(e.s. fte)
In 1960 the UsA
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In 1 970 Pan knericai wo d Airyays (staft) the
for tunch. l
first Boeing 747 I umbo jet' seruice.
In 1979 sony (inveni)the fiBt'watkmano' personal
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ends in consmanr .ha.se -yto
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In 1990 Nelio. (walkj as a free man for
the fi6ttimeafter 2TyeaE in a South African prison.
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In 200010,651 athtetes (particip.te) inthe
hastwosyllables r doubtethefinal Iheytravetted sumnrer Olympic Games ir Sydney, Austratia.
and ends in one i consonant
consonant at night. 1? In 2010 a volcano in lcetand
(stop)flights in
voweL + -l i northwest Europe for severaldays.
. (ec r.d,el)
The past of,e is waslwere.
We don t use drd in the negati\e fom of waslwerc
Past simple - questions
Whenwe make questions using r€gularvetus and inegutarverbs
: : We,ryou/They were late. (1o-re) . rhe Par s mple. when
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dd + the bas€ 'o m.