Page 102 - Bìa 2-12 -1

Grammar 1 Pronunciation
Past simple -ed endings /d/ /t// d/

a Listen and repeat. Can you hear
• I can use the past simple the difference?
to talk about activities in the past.
/d/ or /t/ lived stopped

affirmative: regular/irregular / d/ ended started
I / You travelled alone.
b Listen to the verbs in the box.
He / She / It drove along the roads.

We / You / They continued their journey. arrived asked continued designed
invented looked presented tried wanted
negative regular/irregular

I / You didn’t design the car.
3 Answer the following questions.
He / She / It didn’t have a helmet.
1 When did you last travel?
We / You / They didn’t see their hero.
2 Where did you go?
3 How did you get there?
1 Complete the table with the past simple 4 What did you do there?
form of the verbs.
4 INTERFACE Work in pairs. Use questions
regular irregular in Exercise 3 to ask your partner about

disappear be his/her last trip.

begin
present Victoria Education and Training JSC − victoria.vn−
The past simple of have and have got is
return come had and didn’t have:
stop cost When I was young, I didn't have short
hair, I had long hair. √
have

2 Complete the text with the past simple
verbs in Exercise 1.

The first passenger tram service probably (1) ... (begin) in Wales in
1807. There (2) ... (be) seats for 12 passengers but it (3) ... (not be)
cheap. It (4) ... (cost) about five pence. In 1881, Werner von Siemens,
a German engineer, (5) ... (present) the first electric tram to the world.
In the 1900s, many cities (6) ... (have) large tram networks. However,
in the 1950s and 60s, trams (7) ... (disappear) from the streets of many
major cities. In 1952, the last London tram (8) ... (stop) in New Cross.
Almost 50 years later, trams (9) ... (return) to London.

100