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Unit 9  Past events

                6  Write true sentences with the correct past form                       www.english0905.com
                   of be.

                   1  The first electric car       British.
                   2  Gustave Trouvé          an engineer.
                   3  Electric cars       fast.
                   4  Before 1947, plastic bottles       popular.

                7  Pronunciation  was/were weak forms
                      9.4   Listen and repeat four sentences from
                   the quiz.


                Grammar  be: was/were
                question forms


                 Was         I/he/she/it     www.english0905.com
                                               Australian?
                 Were        we/you/they       popular?
                 Yes/No,     I/he/she/it       was/wasn’t.
                                                                     10  Work in pairs. Match the information (a–f) with
                 Yes/No,     we/you/they       were/weren’t.           the questions (1–6) from Exercise 9. Then ask
     www.english0905.com  8  Work in pairs. Put the words in order to make               b  Ada Lovelace (1843)
                                                                       and answer the questions.
                 Now look at page 174.

                                                                             a  Taylor Swift (2024)
                   questions. Then ask and answer them.
                                                                             c  Ernö Rubik (1974)
                                                                             d  The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
                   1  everyone / for / Talkomatic / was / ?
                                                                                (1010)


                                                                             e  Marie Curie (1903 and 1911)
                   2  expensive / plastic / bottles / were / ?
                                                                             f  The Wright brothers (1903)


                   3  Australian / was / plastic / the first /
                      money / ?
                                                                         two Nobel Prizes?


                   4  the first / when / electric cars / were / ?        Who was the first person to win
                                                                                                It was Marie Curie,
                                                                                                in 1903 and 1911.
                     Was Talkomatic for everyone?
                                                                    Speaking            my life
                                          No, it wasn’t.             11  Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions with
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                                                                       who/what about your past.
                9  Complete the questions with who/what
                   and was/were.                                       •  your first friends at elementary school /
                                                                          high school / college
                   1              the first person to win two          •  your first toy
                      Nobel Prizes?                                    •  your first school
                   2              the first person to complete a       •  your first vacation
                      Rubik’s Cube?                                    •  your first job
                   3              the first singer to win the
                      Grammy Award for album of the year four            Who were your first friends
                      times?                                             at elementary school?
                   4              the first computer programmer?
                   5              the first novel?                                           They were Jen and Alex.
                   6              the first people to fly a plane
                      with an engine?



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