Unit 1 Grammar
Past simple: regular and irregular verbs
Past simple: (there) was / were
1 Write the past simple forms.
1 spend spent 4 Complete the sentences with was, wasn’t,
2 happen were or weren’t using the information in the
3 make table.
4 create Saturday Sunday
5 become Adrian library theme park
6 hide
Miguel and Jorge sports centre cinema
7 exist
Lina stadium museum
8 see
1 Adrian wasn’t at the museum on Saturday. He
2 Complete the email with the past simple form was at the library.
of the verbs in brackets.
2 Miguel and Jorge at the library on
Hi Gemma Saturday. They at the sports centre.
How is school? We 1 studied (study) the 1960s in our 3 Lina at the stadium on Saturday.
history class yesterday and the lives of teenagers then. She at the cinema.
It was interesting because I 2 (not 4 Adrian at the sports centre on
know) much about young people at that time. Sunday. He at the theme park.
Later, I 3 (speak) to my grandfather and 5 Miguel and Jorge at the cinema
he 4 (tell) me about his life in the on Sunday. They at the library.
1960s. 6 Lina at the stadium on Sunday.
He liked pop music, but he 5 (not have) She at the museum.
any money to buy records. So he 6 (go)
to his best friend’s house every weekend and they 5 Complete the sentences with the phrases
7
(listen) to the radio for hours and below.
hours, then they 8 (try) to play some of
There was There wasn’t There were
the songs on an old guitar. Sounds fun!
There weren’t Was there Were there
See you next week,
Alexia 1 There were a lot of fans at the football match.
2 a good film on TV last night?
3 Write questions using the past simple. 3 a new student in our class on
1 computers / exist / in the 1960s Tuesday.
Did computers exist in the 1960s? 4 many children in the park.
2 young people / have radios / at that time 5 any good books in the library?
6 a modern shopping centre in
? our town in 1920.
3 your grandfather / play / a musical instrument
Past time expressions
?
6 Correct the grammatical error in each
4 young people / have / a lot of money back then
sentence. Write – if no word is needed.
1 My grandmother came to this town on the
?
1980s. in
5 what / you / learn / about teenagers in the past
2 I finished that history homework past week.
?
3 Did you see Tom at Monday evening?
6 how / teenagers / communicate / before mobile
phones
4 What did you do across the summer holidays?
?
5 Ava went to that new café two days past.
6 They went to the big market on yesterday.
Unit 1 Grammar
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