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A. Complete the sentences with the past form of the verb ‘be’.

1. Ronald Reagan …………………. the prime minister of Italy.


2. The Jackson Five ………………… a group of musicians.
3. Elvis Presley ………………… a doctor.
4. 30 years ago, computers ………………… very advanced.
5. 1000 years ago, English ………………… a global language.
6. Muhammed Ali ………………… a famous American boxer.
7. Nelson Mandela ………………… an actor.
8. 100 years ago, cars ………………… very slow.

B. Complete the sentences below with the past simple:


1. Yesterday, I ………………… (work) very hard.
2. I ………………… (not/live) in Japan 10 years ago.
3. I ………………… (eat) fried eggs for breakfast this morning.
4. ………………… (you/call) me last night?
5. I ………………… (get up) very late this morning.
6. Peter ………………… (meet) a lot of interesting people during his travels.
7. They………………… (not/buy) sports car. They ………………… (buy) a family car.
8. What ………………… (you/drink) at the party last night?
9. I ………………… (change) my telephone number last month.
10. The computer ………………… (cost) me more than 1000 dollars!

C. Complete the text with these verbs in past simple.


arrive – ask – fly – go – pay – say – stop – take – tell – think – want
Two summers ago, we 1 ……………… on a trip to New York. We 2 ……………… from
Manchester to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The journey was long, but we were
very excited; we are from a little village and we really 3 ……………… to visit a megacity like
New York. When we 4 ……………… at our destination, we 5 ……………… a taxi to our hotel
in Manhattan. The taxi driver was very nice and 6 ……………… us lots of things about New
York and Manhattan.
"How much is it?" I asked the taxi driver when he 7 ……………… his car in front of the hotel.
When he 8 ……………… that it was 95 dollars, I 9 ……………… that it wasn't possible, but it
was! For the first –and I hope the last– time in my life, I 10 ……………… 95 dollars for a taxi.
I guess that's one of the problems of big cities, they are really expensive.

D. Reading tasks
● Match the terms on the left to the definitions on the right.
1. an enclosure a. a drug that is used to make people or animals sleep or to make them calm
2. grab b. an area that is surrounded by a barrier or wall
3. upset c. ‘asleep’ because you have been hit on the head
4. a tranquiliser d. not happy
5. protect e. to come close to someone or something
6. unconscious f. to hold something or someone suddenly
7. approach g. to keep someone or something safe from something dangerous or bad

● You are going to read about a recent incident at a zoo in which a boy fell into a gorilla’s
enclosure. Scan the text to find the information below.
1. How old was the boy?
2. How old was the gorilla?
3. How heavy was the gorilla?
4. How many other similar situations are mentioned?
5. When did they happen?
6. How old were the children?

Gorilla shot dead in zoo to save boy’s life, 1st June 2016
1. On Saturday, zoo officials shot a gorilla after a four year-old boy fell into its enclosure in
the US city of Cincinnati.
2. While the child and his mother were visiting the zoo, the boy accidently fell into the
gorilla’s area. After he fell, the gorilla grabbed him and pulled him through water. The
animal did not attack the boy but it was so big and strong and the zoo did not want to take
any risks. So they shot and killed the 400lb (180kg) gorilla. The child was taken to a local
hospital and will probably be well.
3. Zoo director Thane Maynard said that the zoo made a difficult decision and they made
the right decision because they saved the boy’s life. They had the opportunity to use a
tranquilliser, but this was a bad idea because tranquilisers do not work quickly enough.
And although the boy was not under attack, he "certainly was at risk".
4. The zoo staff were very upset about the death of the gorilla. It was a big loss for the zoo
family and the gorilla population worldwide.
5. However, some people have criticised the zoo’s actions. They say that the child was not
in danger and that the gorilla only wanted to protect the boy. Biologist and chairman of the
The Gorilla Organization, Ian Redmond, said shooting was not necessary.
6. He said: "When gorillas or other apes have things they shouldn’t have, keepers will
negotiate with them, bring food, their favourite treats, pineapple or some kind of fruit that
they don’t know and negotiate with them."
7. There is worldwide anger because of what happened. Many people feel that the death
of the 17-year-old gorilla was the fault of the child’s parents.
8. Something similar happened in 1986 on the island of Jersey, when a five-year-old boy
fell into a gorilla enclosure. He was lying down unconscious with a broken arm. A gorilla
called Jambo came to protect him from the other gorillas. When the boy woke up, he
started to cry, which caused all the gorillas to run away. This allowed the zoo keepers to
climb into the enclosure and rescue the child.
9. In 1996, a gorilla named Binti Jua saved the life of a three-year-old boy who fell into her
enclosure at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago. When the gorilla approached the child, people
started screaming because they thought the animal wanted to hurt him. Instead, she
picked the child up and carried him to the enclosure entrance where the zoo staff could
access him.

● Read the text again and put T (True) or F (False) next to each statement below.
1. The gorilla wanted to attack the child.
2. The zoo decided to shoot the gorilla because using a tranquiliser was a bad idea.
3. It is possible that the gorilla was trying to protect the child.
4. Zoo keepers can negotiate with gorillas using food.
5. Nobody believes it was the mother’s fault that the gorilla was killed.
6. In 1986, a gorilla was behaving aggressively towards a child.
7. In 1996, a gorilla named Binti Jua saved a young boy’s life.

E. Questions and answers


Make true sentences about you using the verbs below in the correct form.
1. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (take an exam) last year.
2. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (sleep) at 6 o’clock this morning.
3. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (have a big lunch) yesterday.
4. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(go) to a concert last year.
5. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . (receive) a phone call 30 minutes ago.
6. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(get up) early this morning.
7. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (get dressed) at 8 o’clock this morning.
8. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (watch television) at midnight last night.
9. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (stay at home) last night.

Now make questions about each sentence like in the example.


1. Did you take an exam last year ?
2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
6.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
7. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
8. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

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