english grammar

1. Unit 5
Sports

2. She is a
teacher.
They are students.
I am a doctor.
She was a
student.
They were
students.
I was a child.
Present tense Past tense

3. Subject He/ She/ It/ I They/ You/ We
Positive
Be Was Were
Verb Verb 2/ ed Verb 2/ ed
Negative
Be Wasn’t Weren’t
Verb Didn’t Verb
Questions
Be
Was + S ?
-Yes, S was.
-No, S wasn’t.
Were + S?
-Yes, S were.
-No, S weren’t
Verb
Did + S + Verb? -Yes, S did.
- No, S didn’t.

4. Past time phrases:
Yesterday, ago
Lastnight /week/month/year
Two days ago, in 1990
Uses of past tense:
We use the simple present tense to talk
about an action, a situation or an
event in the past.

5. Practice
1. Choose the correct past tense forms ofthe verbs below.
a. Fail failled
failed
failied
b. Play playyed
plaied
played
c. Go goed
went
goes
d. Run runned
ran
run
e. Trap trapped
traped
trapied
f. Show showed
showied
showwed
g. Make maked
makened
made
h. Break breaked
broke
broken

6. 2. Change the verbs in the following sentences
into past tense.
a. Yesterday I go to the stadium to buy tickets
for a football match
b. When we arrive at the stadium, many people
are waiting outside
c. My friend and I walk back to the car.
d. Then we see a small grocery store.
e. We stop in the grocery store and buy some
sandwiches.
f. That is better than waiting outside the
stadium.
go
arrive
walk
see
stop buy
is
went
arrived / were
walked
stopped
saw
bought
was
are

7. 3. Correct the mistakes in the following
sentences.
a. Last night Samantha have pizza for
supper.
b. My pet lizard was died last month.
c. Yesterday I spend two hours cleaning
my living room.
d. This morning, before coming to class,
Jack eats two bowls of cereal
e. What was happened to your leg?
have
was died
spend
eats
was happened
had
spent
ate

8. 4.Write sentences as in the example.

9. Pronunciation Spot
/id/: Verbs end in /t/ and /d/ b
/t/: Verbs ending /p, k, s, θ, f, ʃ, tʃ/
/d/: Verbs that do not belong to
the above cases.

10. /t/
Finished
missed
Stopped
watched
kicked
/d/
Played
tired
joined
arrived
/id/
Started
waited

11. typed cooked helped
wanted needed treated
listened stayed arrived

12. Thanks for
your
listening

14. Listening Check it out
Figures
1. The first Tour de France
2. Lance Armstrong retired
3. Tour de France founder, Henri Desgrange died
4. Duration of Tour de France
5. The number of racers who died while competing in
the tour
6. Age of the youngest winner
7. Fewest ever finishers
2005 1940 1903 36
23 19 10 4
1903
2005
1940
23 days
4
19 years old
10

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