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C.
D. e verb expressions for the following pictures?

E. What are some other verbs expressions related to love? Make a list
of 7 more expressions as in the example.

Example: hug someone

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2. _____________________________________________________________

3. _____________________________________________________________

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7. _____________________________________________________________
Grammar irregular verbs
Verbs in English are regular or irregular. Regular verbs need an ed ending in
past and irregular verbs don’t.
Examples of irregular verbs.

Present Past
Speak Spoke
Run Ran
Sit sat
Catch Caught
Think Thought

 To make affirmative sentences in past with irregular verbs just put the verbs
in past
Example:
“she spoke to me yesterday”
“they caught a cold last week”
“she thought about him every day”

 To make negative sentences with irregular verbs just write didn’t and the
verb in present.
Example:
“she didn’t speak to me yesterday”
“they didn’t catch a cold last week”
“she didn’t think about him every day”

Exercises
Write the past tense of the following verbs

Present Past Present Past Present Past

bet Lose Drive
cost Shoot Ride
cut Get Grow
hit Keep Fly
hurt Leave Draw
let Sleep Begin
shut Meet drink
C. Write the following sentences in past tense.
1. She rides her bike to school.
2. They fly a kite on vacation.
3. We leave home at seven.
4. I draw amazing masterpieces.

D. Write the following sentences in negative.

1. We spoke to Mr. Smith last week.
2. They ran three kilometers last weekend.
3. She slept all afternoon yesterday.
4. He lost all his money in the casino.

READING
1. Write the past forms of the following verbs. they are regular (R) and
irregular (IR).

PRESENT PAST TIMES IN

THE
READING
Become IR 2
Can IR 1
Decide R 1
Develop R 1
Die R 1
Fight IR 1
Find IR 1
Grow IR 1
Have IR 2
Invent R 1
Leave IR 1
Marry R 1
Sleep IR 1
Start R 3
Steal IR 1
Use R 1
Be IR 7
Go IR 1
Be plural IR 2
Work R 1
 2. Read about Nikola Tesla and write the past tense of the verbs in
the previous chart in the correct space in the text, some are
repeated. WATCH THE VIDEO FOR HELP

Nikola tesla ____WAS__ born in 1856 in Croatia, he __WAS____a very clever

child. At school, his teachers ____WERE__surprised to see him doing difficult
math problems in his head. When he __WAS__fourteen, Tesla ____LEFT_home
to study science and engineering. In 1884 tesla _DECIDED_____to move to New
York city, at that time many scientists ____STARTED__working to find ways to
bring electricity to cities. One important scientist ___GREW___Thomas Edison
and tesla ___WENT___to work for him improving and creating new products.
The two men ___HAD___some disagreements, so tesla ___STARTED__his own
business. At first, he ___WAS___unsuccessful because his business partner
__STOLE____his ideas. However, he __FOUND____some new partners and in
his second business he ____INVENTED_a new system to bring electricity safely
to buildings over long distance, this ____BECAME_called alternating current or
AC. Tesla’s earlier partner Edison _WAS_____developing another electrical
system called direct current or DC. The two men ___FOUGHT___hard to make
their own system the winners in this current wars. With the help of powerful
businessmen called George Westing house, AC ___BECAME__the main system
used in the USA.

Westing house and tesla also __USED____hydroelectric energy for the first time
to bring electricity from Niagara Falls to the large city of buffalo, New York. Tesla
then ____STARTED__to work on a way to send information and even electricity
from one place to another without using wires. Although he
___STARTED___building a huge tower to send information and power around
the world, this project was not successful. Tesla never ____MARRIED__, he
____WORKED__very hard all his life, he only _SLEPT_____two or three hours
each night. He ___HAD___a strong imagination and _WAS_____plan his
inventions in his head. As he ____WAS__older, tesla’s ideas
__DEVOLOPED___in unusual ways. He __WAS____interested in
photographing people’s memories and in producing a weapon called a death ray.
He ____DIED__in 1943 aged 86. Tesla is remembered today as the inventor of
the technology which makes our modern life possible. To remember his
achievements, his name was given to the electric car company tesla motors in
2003.