Past simple verb be questions & short answers 3 Write questions and short answers using the prompts. Grammar 1 you / at home / yesterday evening? (x) : you at home yesterday evening? Past simple verb be positive & negative No, Dwain’ 1 Circle the correct answers. em are, ” 1 Jo and Bea was (GTB) ona plane as ight. : anion ch 2 I wesn't/ werent at home yesterday evening The Phe forte ny You weren't / wasn't very happy this morning 4 Wctvanieis) went 4. My parents wos / were in ari last week 5 The taxi wos / were late. So now I'm late 4. Complete the quiz with question words 6 ur camping weekend wasn't / weren't good and the correct form of the verb be. | was / were ill every day Then circle the correct answer. (2) When (x2) What (x2) U2) 2 Complete the text with the correct past simple mpc Wid form of the verb be. Para Tae re Pe the frst James Bond? 2) Sean Connery b) Dail Craig «) Perce Brosnan 5 ‘the 2014 World Cup? a) Russia b) France ¢) Brazil Then ae. Kailua Beach& a dise to popularit John Lennon and George Harrison frm? enti bats a) Liverpool b) London ¢) Glasgow the first man in space? .2)Neil Armstrong b) Yuri Gagarin e) Bur? Lightyear the score in the 2014 World Cup Germany vs Brazil match? a)7-0 b)7-7 c) 7-1 E the London Olympics? 2) 2004 b) 2008 «) 2012 5 the frst commercial mobile phone call This is Kailua Beach on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, inthe UK? )1975 b) 1985) 1995 the perfect place for a holiday. | "as (V) first here in 2003, and it (¥) my favourite place. It was so 5 Look at this trainee journalist’s notes. auiet. There (X) many visitors, It ) There are some mistakes. Rewrite the popular, but with local people. There 0 sentences correctly. many hotels or restaurants. The beach 0 1 The present didnt arrive mn a busy and it’___() a great place to relax. opter. He arrived in a plane, plane< 1 (0) there again last year. Wow! What a 1 The president arrived in a helicopter difference. There’ __(/) lots of tourists and ea lots of tour buses. There __(V) lots of shops, Tat te prime leer iiaw restaurants, hotels and supermarkets. The beach They talked about -footbalts (very busy. It” 09 quiet 3. They had a big lunch. The president Why? Welt it's really popular now. Maybe because a work.t9Pt for an hour. very famous person comes here on holiday with his 4 In the evening, they went to the family. Who is that? Barack Obama! theatre and saw a musicat: play 5 The next day, the president drove to Arussels. 202 Paris:Past simple positive & negative 6a Write the past simple form of the verbs. Tvisit 2travel 3like 4cry 5 listen stop 8 hate 6b Complete the sentences with the past simple verbs in exercise 63. 1 she the flow beautifull rs, They were to music all weekend. was a very sad film. | at French at university, <0 can read, speak and write French, 5 The girls their cousins at the weekend 6 He around the USA by bus last year. It was a long journey so we ata cae for a snack. 8 They that film. it was terrible! 7 Write the irregular past simple forms of these verbs. 1fly 2swim 3come 4see Sleave 60 7buy 8take 9have 10 catch Round up 8 complete the fact file with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Kendrick Lamar American rapper and songwriter «Kendrick Lamar was born in Compton, California on 17 June, 1987. + He (want) to be a basketball player, but he only ® (grow) to 1.68m. + He! (study) hard at high school and ‘___ (get) good grades ~ all As. + Before he * (start) writing songs, he ‘_____ (enjoy) writing stories and poems. + He ’___ (perform) a concert in Los Angeleson the back of alorry!He' (begin) the show with a tweet to all his fans. 9 Complete the article with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. a The coukneys Islands Unit 9 TheOrkney|slandsare about 16km from thenorth coastof Scotland, (not visit) all 70 islands, but stil (discover) some beautiful places. You an get there by plane, but 1? (not fy), I" (chose to travel by boat We (leave) ona Cold grey morning, but when I° (see) the islands forthe fisttime, the sky andsea’”___(be) abriliant blue History The first people * (lve) here about 6,000 years ago. You ‘an see their Neolithic stone villages and incredible stone circles. | The Vikings * (arrive) in the 700s. They (sai) ftom Norway in their long ships. They.” (change) lots of things onthe islands. Many Orkney place names x (come) from Norse, the Viking language. The islands (become) a part of Scotland in 1468. A famous writer One ofthe best Scottish writers ofthe twentieth century was born In Stromness in 1921, George Mackay Brown. He (not ‘move) to Edinburgh but " __ (stay) on the islands for most of his life. He " _____ (not write) just novels, but also plays, poems and books about the Orkneys. He (die) in 1996. Eating and drinking (not eat) any fast food. Why? Because the food here islocal, natura and delicious!” (have) some amazing cheese and meat, and” (enjoy) the best ice cream ever! Tre [ayy sia 10 Write six things you did and didn't do last jp weekend. Use the ideas below and your own. go swimming [play volleyball [got up late ‘watch lm [cycle to the beach buy new clothes [play a musical instrument at in a restaurant [worry about exams 203204 Vocabulary Holiday activities 1 Complete the comments with the words below. staying in a luxury hotel sightseeing swimming sunbathing hiking shopping going to museums and galleries camping Hannah We walked for 25 kilometres! | was really tired at the end of the day. Drew | can’t surf, but | like being in the water. twas fantastic! @ Tom We were at the beach all afternoon and we relaxed, but | went very red! © Matt | bought some great new trainers. They're purple! @ Kate The rooms were very big, and the bathrooms were amazing! Low it wasn’t very comfortable and it rained all right. The tent was very small @ Pieter Edinburgh has some awesome old buildings and fantastic views ~ I want to go back next year and see more sights! @ Erin 'm an art student so | spent all my. looking at the paintings. Word Expander Transport verbs 2 Complete the sentences so they are true for you. 1 [how often] go on a train to [place] Hast caught a bus to (when. I {can / ca 4 My family drives to [where] [how often} [where] ] Fide a motorbike Transport 3. Match the statements with the types of transport. a)abicycle —c)atrain e)abus —_g) aboat b).a motorbike d) aship f)aplane h) acar © Carl Benz built the frst modern one. G This is small and travels on water. G This is large and travels on water and carries lots of people. G It's got two wheels and you ride it. It doesn't go fast. @ In London, this is red and it carries a lot of people. @ It's got two wheels and it can go very very fast. Technology 4 Complete the sentences with the correct words. There is one extra word. games console sat nav battery charger emote control cable tablet smartphones 1. My smartphone needs a new Use it for an hour 2 want to connect the OVD player to the TV. Where's the ___? 3. In our family, we've got four cameras and four different W's very hard to remember which is which! 4 Where's the | want to watch The Big Bang Theory and | can’t change the channel 5 Dad! You're driving in the wrong direction. Turn on the ! 6 I's a quiet evening at home tonight! Mum and ad have both got their s. She's on Facebook and hie's watching a film, I ean only