Ticket–in week 2

Simple Past
Activity I
Past Simple: Spelling of regular verbs:
-Write the past form of the following verbs using the video.
-Compare the two form of verbs, then complete the rule.

Base Form Verb Verb in Past Complete the rules

walk walked The normal rule is to add “ed”
cook cooked
live lived If the verb ends in -e add _”d ”
smile smiled
marry married Verbs that end in a consonant + y, drop the “y”and change
try tried to “ied”_______ .
enjoy enjoyed Verbs that end in a vowel + y, add “ed”
play played
stop stopped One syllable verb ending in a consonant + vowel
plan planned +consonant, doubled the final consonant + “ed”

Activity II
Identify the irregular verbs in the texts and practice their pronunciation. You can use the following websites to check the pronunciation of the verbs:
1. https://tophonetics.com/
2. https://howjsay.com/

Base Form Irregular Verb Irregular Verb in Past

get got

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Activity III
Rewrite the following sentences using simple past.
Ex: 0. Eleane writes a letter to her son. Eleane wrote a letter to her son.
1. Miguel goes to the swimming pool on Sunday. …………………………………………………………………………….………..……………………………………………
2. Luna and David don’t have breakfast at 7 o´clock. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Juan cooks a delicious chicken pie. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. Doris doesn’t drink a lot of coffee. ……………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. We buy a sandwich at the shop. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………………
6. I get up at 6 o´clock and go to university. ……………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………

Activity IV
Read the following famous person’s biography and identify the mistakes using the correction symbols list. Only use the symbols to identify the mistakes, do NOT
correct the text.

A Biography
Andres Cepeda is wonderful singer artist and great composer he is 46 years old and he was born in Bogotá, colombia on July 7
1973. He is Latin pop singer and he fall in love with music when he was a child. His race started when he was the main singer of
poligamia, a colombian band of rock-pop. He began to sing with Poligamia on 1989. He was 8 years wiht the band and before he
became a solist in 1999.
He had to do many things to exit in his career and now he is very popular. He has sung different musical genres how bolero and balada.
Furthermore, Andres has given a lot of concert in different countries such as colombia, canada, france, spain, italy and the USA. Also,
he has won for best traditional pop album and he has received the highest recognition in the “Premios Nuestra Tierra”. Aditionally,
Andres has presented one of his records in egypt and spain. In my opinion, Andres Cepeda is the best artist since he has a unique way
of singing and he has created songs authentic.

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