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VOCABULARY Irregular past simple verbs

I can  make the past simple form of irregular verbs.

1 S0.3 Read and listen to the school newsletter and match the verbs in the box with the blu e past
simple forms.

buy find out go have hear make meet know

put see send take tell think wake up write

2000 HINKSEY HIGH SCHOOL

Class 10B 1 went on a history trip to a hands-on exhibition of technology from the 1980s and
1990s. We 2 knew that old technology was very different, but some of the gadgets that we
3 
saw were crazy! We 4 found out a lot about daily life in the past.

My parents often

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Our parents 5 woke up 13 
met their friends at the
when they 6 heard this arcades to play these
every morning. exciting new games.
alarm clock video games

Kids often 7 took photos Teenagers listened

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with this. It was quick and to music on this.
very cool. They 8 put their They 14 thought it
photos in an album. was really cool.
Polaroid camera cassette player

People 9 made films of Every home 15 had this

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family life with this. My because most people
mum 10 told me it was my didn’t have mobile
grandad’s favourite hobby! camcorder phones until the late 1990s.
landline

Families watched films

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People often 11 wrote
on these. They 16 bought
and 12 sent messages
them or rented them from
like this. How slow!
a shop or a library.
letters video cassettes

2 Work in pairs. What do you use now instead of 4 PRONUNCIATION Different vowel sounds
the objects in the pictures?
I don’t use an alarm clock. I use my phone. S0.4 Listen and repeat the verbs. Pay attention
to the different vowel sounds.
3 Complete each sentence with a past tense hea r – hea rd found – thought
verb from Exercise 1.
had – made find – listened
1 My mum ... letters when she was young.
2 We ... some great songs from the 1990s. 5 Complete the sentences so that they are true for you.
3 I ... some old video cassettes in the attic.
1 I woke up at ... this morning.
4 Dad’s hobby was dancing, so he ... a cassette
2 I saw ... on my way to school today.
player everywhere!
3 I heard a great song by ... last week.
5 We ... to the beach every day when we were
4 I met ... at the weekend.
on holiday.
5 Last time I went on holiday, I took ... .
6 I ... really early this morning because there
was a lot of noise outside. 6 I had a ... when I was younger, but I haven’t got it now.
7 I ... my aunt’s photo albums. Everybody looked 6 Work in groups. Compare your sentences in Exercise 5.
so young! Did you have the same answers as another student?
8 My friend ... new trainers on Saturday. They Lara and I both woke up at 6.30 this morning.
look really cool.
David and I both met our cousins at the weekend.

GRAMMAR Past simple

I can  use the past simple to talk about past events.
Quantifiers: some, any, (how) much,
(how) many, a lot of
I can
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 use quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns.
1 Read the grammar box. Copy and complete the
rules with the correct words from the box.
5 Read the grammar box. Do we use the quantifiers
in the box with countable nouns, uncountable
affirmative negative questions regular
nouns, or both?

a lot of much many

+ My dad had a lot of games like this.
Teenagers listened to their music on this.