EXERCISE 3 Questions in the Simple Past Make questions for the underlined answers. Example: When did the Soviet Union launch Sputnik I? The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I on October 4, 1957.
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Sputnik I was the world’s first artificial satellite.
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It was the size of a basketball and it weighed 83 kilograms.
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Sputnik launched the beginning of the space race.
4 On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik II with a live dog on board.
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The dog’s name was Laika.
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In 1960, Yuri Gagarin from Russia became the first human to travel into space.
Past Continuous OBSERVATION EXERCISE 4 Past Continuous Read the text below and underline every time the past continuous is used: in questions, in affirmative statements and in negative statements.
were the workers at the Avro plant W hat doing on “Black Friday,” the day many of them lost their jobs? They were working on their specific assignments, as they always did. Some were conducting inspections and others were making adjustments or testing components. Although some people thought that production
would slow down, they were not expecting to get fired. Diefenbaker said the project was costing too much, but this explanation did not satisfy the 14,525 employees who lost their jobs that day.
FORM Affirmative
Negative
Short Answer
past of be + verb + -ing
was not / were not wasn’t / weren’t + verb + -ing
was / were + subject + verb + -ing
I / he / she / it was working.
I was not working. I wasn’t working.
Was I working?
Yes, I was. No, I wasn’t.
Were you working?
Yes, you were. No, you weren’t.
You / we / they were You were not working. working. You weren’t working.
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