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vocabulary years • reading a quiz • grammar be: was/were • pronunciation was/were weak forms •
grammar be: was/were question forms • speaking who/what in my past
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Vocabulary years Grammar be: was/were

1 9.2 Listen and choose the years I/He/She/It was/wasn’t Australian.
you hear. popular.
We/You/They were/weren’t
1800 1857 1866 1908 Now look at page 174.
1923 1957 1990 1999

2006 2011 2020 2023 4 Look at the grammar box. Underline the past forms of be
in the quiz.
2 Work in pairs. Say six years for your
partner to write. 5 Choose the correct option.
1 Plastic water bottles was / were expensive at first.
2 The first social media app was / were Talkomatic.
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3 Electric cars wasn’t / weren’t difficult to drive.
3 Work in pairs. Read the quiz and 4 Brazil was / wasn’t the first country to have plastic
guess the answers. Check your money.
answers on page 153.
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When was the first …?

When was the first social media app?
Do you know? Do the quiz. Test your knowledge!

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for everyone to use—it was only for people at the University of
Illinois in the United States.
a 1973 b 2002 c 2011

2 The first plastic money was Australian, in . It was a
10 dollar bill.

a 1976 b 1988 c 2001
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3 The first commercial plastic bottles, in , were
expensive. But they were great for liquids and after a few
years, they were very popular.
a 1747 b 1847 c 1947

4 The first electric cars were French and German. The
engineers were Gustave Trouvé and Andres Flocken. In
, the Flocken Elektrowagen was the first four-wheeled

electric car in the world. Electric cars were fast and they
weren’t difficult to drive.
a 1888 b 1913 c 1980

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