MILESTONES Use of English

TASK 1 PAST SIMPLE TENSE

 Read and organize the sentences with phrases from the box. IRREGULAR VERBS
 Write the verbs in past simple Some verbs in English are
irregular and we do not add “ed”
How two guys made an app in
in the past form.
8 weeks
Some irregular verbs:
Infinitive Past Simple
Gave it to friends to use it Be Was/were
Renamed it Instagram and
Become Became
launched it on Monday Took the decision and quit his job Begin Began
Break Broke
Build Built
0. Kevin Systrom began (begin) to code at night after work Burn Burnt
1. He ___________ (build) an HTLM5 prototype called Burbn Buy Bought
2. __________________________________________________ Catch Caught
3. ____________ (meet) investors at a party, showed them Burbn Choose Chose
4. ____________________________________________________ Come Came
5. _________ (get) $500,000 in funding Cost Cost
6. ___________ (find) to Mike Krieger a co-funder Do Did
7. They _____________ (decide) to focus their social network just in photos Draw Drew
8. ___________ (prototype) a photo sharing app from scratch Drink Drank
9. __________ (build) an awful photo app Drive Drove
10. ______________ (go) back to the old version (Burbn) Eat Ate
11. ___________ (make) Burbn into an iPhone app, but it felt mess Fall Fell
12. _________ (throw) out everything and only left Photos Feel Felt
13. ________________________________________________________ Fight Fought
14. ___________ (become) number 1 photo app Find Found
Adapted from: https://bit.ly/2RsvosE Fly Flew
Forget Forgot
TASK 2 Get Got
 Use the words below to write questions and short answers Give Gave
Go Went
Moments in world’s history Grow Grew
0. Die/President Kennedy/1963? Hang Hung
Question Did president Kennedy die in 1963? Have Hand
Answer Yes, he did Hear Heard
1. fly/Neil Armstrong/to Mars? Hide Hid
Question _________________________________________________ Hit Hit
Answer _________________________________________________ Hold Held
2. win/Tony Curtis/an Oscar? Hurt Hurt
Question _________________________________________________ Keep Kept
Answer _________________________________________________ Know Knew
3. invent/Alexander Graham Bell/the telephone? Learn Learnt/Learned
Question _________________________________________________ Leave Left
Answer _________________________________________________ Lend Lent
4 paint/Michelangelo/the Mona Lisa? Lose Lost
Question _________________________________________________ Make Made
Answer _________________________________________________ Mean Meant
Meet Meant
Retrieved from: My Grammar lab elementary Pay Paid
TASK 3 Put Put
 Read the interview about the history if UBER Read Read
 Use the verbs in brackets to complete the affirmative and negative Ride Rode
statements Ring Rang
 For questions 5, 10 and 12, put the words in the right order to make Rise Rose
interrogative Run Ran
Say Said
See Saw
Sell Sold
Send Sent
Shut Shut
Laura (Journalist) Garett (Uber owner) Sing Sang
A brief history of Uber Sit Sat
Laura Today we have the story of Uber an important app. This Sleep Slept
company 0. spent (spend) some time to be created. The Speak Spoke
owners 1. ________ (make) a big effort to develop a software Spend Spent
to facilitate transport. Steal Stole
Laura Mr. Camp welcome; let’s start. What is Uber? Swim Swam
Garett Uber 2. ______ (be) a dream for me. I 3. __________ Take Took
(not/create) Uber because of money. I 4. _________(want) to Teach Taught
provide a solution for cab services. Uber is more than a Tell Told
transport service, Uber is a logistics company that offers Think Thought
different services, providing whatever you need. Throw Threw
Laura 5. create/you/Uber/how/decide/did/to Wear Wore
Garett Travis Kalanick and I. We 6. ________ (have) the idea of Win Won
starting with a new company that could offer transport Write Wrote
services. We 7. ____________ (not/ think) this could become
in a big company as the one we have now.
Laura Who is Garett Camp?
Garett Well… what can I say? … I’m from Canada. I 8. ________ (take)
a long time studying in the university. I have a degree in electric engineering and also a master’s
degree in software engineering and currently I’m an investor
Laura What about your partner? Who is Travis?
Garett He is from America, he is a computer engineer and he also 9. ___________ (get) a degree in business
economics from the university of California.
Laura 10. did/start/how/Uber
Garett Uber started in 2008 when we were at a conference in Paris. That day many people complained about
the cab services.
Laura Who had the idea of creating an app?
Garett I 11. _________ (think) about creating an app or a software to provide a
solution for transport service in the world. Two years later in 2010 we started with a test in New York
service.
Laura 12. do/you/did/later/what
Garett Uber initially offered free rides. Some people say Uber started operations in 2013 but we 13.
_________ (not/start) that year. It 14. ________ (be) just until 2012 that Uber 15. _______ (begin) in
Palo Alto, we offered rides on demand. We offered our services to Google and Facebook employees.
Laura What’s the future of Uber?
Garett We want to invest some money and have Uber in other cities in the world.
Laura Thank you!
Source : https://bit.ly/2y8q5aT /Source : Languages Center, UNIMAR