Tài liệu 9- SURVIVORS pptx

Survivor 9
9 Survivors
Grammar
The past simple tense: regular verbs
Grammar in use
1
Look at the picture and the conversation. Who are the three people?
2
 9.1 Read and listen to the conversation. Choose the countries that Alexei
lived in, and put them in the correct order.
 the USA  Spain  Canada  Sweden
 Russia  Argentina  France

Madelaine Who’s this?
Adam That’s my great-grandfather, Alexei. He was born in Russia, but after the
Revolution he moved to Sweden.
Madelaine Did he stay in Sweden?
Adam No, he didn’t. He stayed there for only a few months, I think. Then he moved
to France. He didn’t stay there very long, either.
Madelaine Oh, what did he do?
Adam Will, he wanted to go back to Russia, but it was too dangerous. So he
decided to come to the USA.
Madelaine And did he stay here?
Adam Yes, he did.
Madelaine Is he still alive?
Adam No. he died in 1980, when he was 84.
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AIMS:
1. Use the past simple tense with regular verbs.
2. Use some prepositions of movement.
3. Use ago in the past simple tense.

4. Pronounce the past tense -ed.
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Rules
1
The conversation uses the past simple tense.
a
Find the past simple forms of these verbs. Write them in the table.
present past
stay
want
move
decide
die
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
b
How do we make the past simple tense?
c
 9.1 Listen to the conversation again. What do you notice about the verbs want and
decide?
2
Complete these sentences from the conversation.
He _____ there for only a few months. _____ he _____ in Sweden?
He ________ there very long.
a
How do we make questions and negatives in the past simple tense?
b

Which part of the verb do we use after did or didn’t?
3
Choose the correct form of the verbs.
1 ‘Did he liked Sweden?’ ‘Yes, he did.’
like liked.’
2 ‘Did he stay in France?’ ‘No, he didn’t.’
stayed didn’t stay.’
3 He didn’t wanted to leave Russia.
want
Practice
1
Adam is talking about his great-grandfather. Put the verbs in brackets into the
past simple tense.
1 He ________ (want) to stay in Russia, but it ________ (be) too dangerous.
2 When he ________ (be) in France, he ________ (work) in a factory.
3 When he ________ (arrive) in the USA, he ________ (live) in Boston.
4 But then he ________ (move) to Los Angeles in California.
5 He ________ (like) California, so he ________ (decide) to stay there.
6 Later he ________ (open) a music shop.
7 When he ________ (be) an old man, he ________ (return) to Russia for a holiday.
8 He ________ (die) before I ________ (be) born.
2
Make these sentences negative.
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1 Alexei wanted to leave Russia.
2 He stayed in Sweden for a long time.
3 He lived in England for two years.
4 He worked in a hotel in Paris.
5 He enjoyed his job in France.

6 He traveled to the USA by plane.
7 He liked Boston.
8 He moved to San Francisco.
9 He started a film company.
10 He died when Adam was two years old.
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Adam and Madelaine are talking about Adam’s great-grandmother.
a
Make Madelaine’s questions.
die before you were born?
Where / live in the USA?
want to work in films?
Why / decide to leave Ireland?
When / her family move to the States?
stay there?
succeed?


Adam This is my great-grandmother, Sheena.
Madelaine ____________________________________________________
Adam No, she wasn’t. She was born in Ireland.
Madelaine ____________________________________________________
Adam Her parents moved there when Sheena was still a child.
Madelaine ____________________________________________________
Adam They wanted to find a better life.
Madelaine ____________________________________________________
Adam They lived in New York when they first arrived.
Madelaine ____________________________________________________
Adam Her parents did, but Sheena decided to go to Hollywood.
Madelaine ____________________________________________________

Adam Yes, she wanted to be an actress.
Madelaine ____________________________________________________
Adam No, she didn’t. then she married my great-grandfather, Alexei .
Madelaine ____________________________________________________
Adam No, she didn’t. She died when she was 96, so I can remember her.
b
 9.2 Listen and check your answers.
4
Write about Adam’s great-grandmother.
EXAMPLE
Adam’s great-grandmother’s name was Sheena. She was born …
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5
Write a story about one of your ancestors (real or imaginary).
Vocabulary
Verbs
1
Match the verbs and the pictures.
Use a dictionary to help you.
2
Complete these sentences. Use verbs
from exercise 1 in the past tense.
1 I ________ out of the house and
________ on the bus.
2 The little boy ________ when
someone ________ his ice cream.
3 ‘I love you,’ she ________, and
then she ________ goodbye.
4 I ________ the bag, but it was very

heavy and it ________ out of my
hands.
3
Some verbs in English have two
parts. Match the verbs and the
pictures.
look back look up look down

Reading and writing
Chairlift terror
1
Look at the picture and find these
things. Use a dictionary to help you.
chair chairlift operator helicopter coat the ground
2
Look quickly at the paragraphs.
1 Who are the woman and the boy?
2 Where did the accident happen?
3 Did the boy fall?
3
Read the paragraphs.
Number them in the correct order.
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Chairlift
terror

Then suddenly the chairlift stopped and
Luke slipped from the chair. Fran
grabbed his hand and stopped him just

in time. She tried to pull the child back
into the chair, but he was too heavy.
‘Help! Help!’ she shouted


But Luke didn’t fall. The chairlift operator
climbed up to the chair and helped Fran
to hold her son. About five minutes later
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