Unit 6

Unit 6 Extra practice

1 Vocabulary time expressions
Circle the time expression which is NOT possible in each sentence.
1 I saw the exhibition this / yesterday / last  morning.
2 Many people lived in caves in the Himalayas in / during / on the twelfth century.
3 We finished school last week / a week ago / before a week.
4 My birthday is in 12th November / on November 12th / in November.
5 
When I was a child / When I was young / During I was a child I loved reading.
6 I met a friend last Sunday afternoon / yesterday afternoon / the last Sunday.

2 Grammar past simple questions

Read the answers and write the questions. Use the prompts.
1 Who / Mary Gilmore / ?
Who was Mary Gilmore?
She was a nineteenth-century writer. Her face is on the Australian $10 note.
2 When / born / ?

She was born in 1865.
3 Where / live when / a child / ?

She lived in Wagga Wagga in the South East of Australia.
4 Why / become famous / ?

She was a poet, a writer, a journalist and a political activist.
5 travel / ?

Yes, she went to Paraquay and Argentina.
6 When / die / ?

She died in 1962. She was 97.

3 Vocabulary opinion adjectives

Complete the adjective in each sentence.
1 The weekend was f un . I saw my friends and we went sailing on Sunday.
2 That was a really b talk! I didn’t learn anything it was two hours long!
3 My children like watching f videos on YouTube about cats!
4 The teacher said your homework was t ! You got 20%!
5 We had a f holiday! I loved Crete and I didn’t want to come home.
6 The food at the restaurant wasn’t b , but the service was very slow.

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Unit 6 Extra practice
4 Grammar was/were
Circle the correct options to complete the text.

 ast summer I 1 was / were on holiday with my sister in London. She likes clothes
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and one afternoon we 2 was / were in Oxford Street. I 3 wasn’t / weren’t interested
in shopping so I stayed outside in the street. There 4 was / were a lot of street musicians,
but they 5 wasn’t / weren’t very good. There 6 was / were also some street actors.
I really liked one actor. He 7 wasn’t / weren’t very old but he 8 was / were fantastic!

5 Grammar past simple regular verbs

Complete the sentences with the past simple of these verbs.

love play show study travel visit

1 Last year we visited the pyramids in Egypt.

2 John me his new car.
3 My uncle writing stories when he was a boy.
4 My cousin the violin in the school concert.
5 I French and Spanish at university.
6 Jessie by train around India.

6 Grammar past simple irregular verbs

Find the past simple form of these verbs. Then write the past simple forms.

w k l h b f
e a m a d e
n c a d c p
t o o k s u
e d m m e t

1 go went
2 meet
3 put
4 make
5 have
6 take

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