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I Did Nothing Yesterday
I Did Nothing Yesterday
4 th Year of Secondary
1. Last night
Activity 2: Rewrite the sentences in the past tense. Add the time expression in brackets.
1. I wear trainers to school. (yesterday) I wore trainers to school yesterday.
2. Susan makes cakes. (yesterday afternoon) Susan made cakes yesterday afternoon.
3. My dad does a lot of housework. (last week) My dad did a lot of housework last week.
4. I play volleyball. (last night) I played volleyball last night.
5. School finishes at 4 o’clock. (an hour ago) School finished at an hour ago.
6. It rains a lot. (last month) It rained a lot last month.
Activity 3: Complete the text. Use the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
Albert Einstein 1was (be) born in 1879 in Germany. He 2hated (hate) school. His teachers 3thought (think) he
wasn’t very clever, and he 4left (leave) school at the age of fifteen. But he 5loved (love) science, and he 6read
(read) lots of books on his own. When he was 23, he 7moved (move) to Switzerland and 8got (get) a job in an
office. In his free time, he 9wrote (write) about physics and the universe, and he 10sended (send) his work to
universities. In 1914, he 11returned (return) to Germany and 12becomed (become) a professor at a university in
Berlin. There, he developed new ideas about time, space and atoms. In 1921, he 13won (win) the Nobel Prize for
Physics. In 1933, he 14decided (decide) to leave Germany and 15went (go) to the USA, where he 16lived (live)
for the rest of his life. He 17died (die) in 1955 at the age of 76. Few people 18caned (can) understand his ideas at