UNIT
Vocabulary
Grammar
Types of books
Be – past simple
1 Write words for types of books.
3 Complete the sentences and questions with the past simple form of be.
1 A story about life in the future: 2 A story that makes you laugh: 3 A person’s life in his/her own words:
1 The travel guide 2 The books 3 Where
(not) useful. very expensive. you yesterday?
4 A story that is full of danger and suspense: / 3 points / 4 points
Verbs to talk about people’s lives in the past 2 Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs from the box. buy found earn be born sell give 1 Mandela wrong.
think create
discrimination was
Past simple – regular and irregular verbs (2) 4 Complete the questions with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. 1
(he / download) music from the Internet yesterday? (she / post) any new 2 comments last week? (you / go) to the cinema last 3 Friday?
a congregation 2 Mother Teresa to help sick and poor people. millions of copies 3 J K Rowling of the Harry Potter books. 4 Steve Jobs
in the United States.
5 Yesterday, I concert.
tickets for a
6 My sister for my birthday!
me a nice present
7 Mark Zuckerberg and
Facebook a lot of money. / 8 points
PROGRESS CHECK
3
/ 3 points 5 Complete the interview with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Who (1) (be) Charles Dickens? He (2) (be) an English writer. He (3) (live) from 1812 to 1870. He (4) (write) 15 novels, including A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist. (he / write) about? What (5) A lot of his books (6) (be) about poor people. They (7) (not have) an easy life in the 19th century and Dickens (8) (think) this was wrong. He (9) (want) to make people think about these problems. (people / like) his Why (10) books? Because they (11) (have) exciting stories and interesting characters. Everyone (12) (like) them! / 12 points
ce! Check your performan Total Score: 0–9
sb2-wb.indb 109
10–16
17–23
24–30
/ 30 points 109
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