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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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