I.E.G.P LOS ÁNGELES DE CHIMBOTE Teacher: Miss Giselle Pérez B.

4th Year of Secondary

Activity 1: Put the time expressions in order, with the most recent first.
last month – last night – last week – last year – the day before yesterday – three months ago –
two years ago – yesterday afternoon – yesterday morning – in 1990

1. Last night

2. Yesterday afternoon 6. Last month

3. Yesterday morning 7. Three months ago
4. The day before yesterday 8. Last year
5. Last week 9. Two years ago

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 that time, but now they are an important

part of physics.