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1 Write the verbs in the correct column and then write the Past 1 Charles Dickens was born in 1812.
Simple forms.
2 Charles Dickens wrote in English.
study meet give win buy visit speak become 3 Charles Dickens only wrote about rich people.
stay leave start get enjoy stop do lose 4 Charles Dickens’ father had a job in an office.
5 Charles Dickens’ life was difficult because
REGULAR VERBS IRREGULAR VERBS he had eight children.
6 Charles Dickens was good at school.
7 Charles Dickens spent all his father’s money.
8 Charles Dickens worked every night.
9 Charles Dickens earned very little money.
10 Oliver Twist was Charles Dickens’ friend.

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3 Complete the sentences with a verb from the box in the Past
Simple. Make one of the verbs negative.

marry earn die stay come be born become

have help work study speak stop like
1 point for each correct answer:
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My grandparents (1) in Hungary in the
1920s. They (2) to England in 1946, after
2 Read the text. Are the statements true (✓) or false the war. My grandfather worked in a factory in
(✗)? Birmingham and he (3) English at night.
CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870)

Charles Dickens is a famous writer in the English language. He wrote My grandmother (4) at home because she
about the real world of England and many of the people in his books only (5) Hungarian and so she couldn’t
were not rich, but poor and hungry. get a job. Life was difficult because my grandfather
Charles Dickens’s family lived in London and his father worked in an (6) much money in the factory. My
office. It was a good job, but he always spent a lot of money and often grandparents (7) three children, my
there was no money to buy food. There were eight children in the mother and my two uncles. They (8) their
family, so life was hard. parents as much as they could. My grandparents
Charles went to school and his teachers thought he was very clever. But (9) work when they were sixty and
when Charles was only eleven, his father lost all his money and the family they liked having a lot of free time together.
left their house. Charles got a job washing bottles. He worked ten hours a Unfortunately, my grandfather (10) in 1994, but my
day and he earned six shillings (30p) a week. Every night, after work, he grandmother is still alive.
walked four miles back to his room. Charles hated it and never forgot it.
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He used it in many books, for example David Copperfield and Oliver
Twist.

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4 Complete the conversation.
Circle the correct answer.
A Where (1) last Saturday evening?
B I went to work.
A To work? Why?
B Because I (2) the money.
A But you (3) every Saturday last month, too.
Why don’t you have any money now?
B Because I (4) all the money from last month.
A What (5) with the money?
B A CD and video game.
A (6) your sister the money that you (7) for last
week?
B No, (8) . I (9) , but there isn’t a problem. She
always has a lot of money. Anyway, what (10) last
Saturday evening?
A I (11) out because I had no money!

1 a did you b go c did you go d do you go

2 a needed b needs c did need d do need
3 a work b did work c didn’t work d worked
4 a spent b spend c spended d did spend
5 a do you buy b did you buy
c you buy d you bought
6 a You give b You gave
c Did you give d You did give
7 a ask b asks c asked d didn’t ask
8 a I didn’t b I don’t c I did d I do
9 a can b couldn’t c could d can’t
10 a you did b do you do c you didn’t d did you do
11 a don’t go b go c didn’t go d not go
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5 Write sentences about someone in your family. Where and

when was he/she born? Where did he/she live when he/she
was small? What did he/she study? What did he/she do in
his/her free time? Also write about his/her first job.

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4 for lexis and use of link words)

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