teaching

1. 1 Unit 7

2. • Grammar: Past Simple
• Regular verbs * Irregular verbs
• Vocabulary: Words that go together
• Everyday English: What’s the date?

3. • A life past and present
• Past Simple – regular verbs
1- Look at the photos. Do you know anything
about the TV star, Oprah Winfrey?

4. 2- Read and listen to Oprah Winfrey’s life now.
Complete Text A with the verbs you hear.
Answer the questions.
1. How many people watch her show?
2. Where does she live?
3. Does she earn a lot of money?

5. 3- Read and listen to Text B about Oprah’s
childhood. Answer the questions.
1. Where and when was she born?
2. Were her parents rich?
3. Was she smart? What could she do?

6. Contents
7 Then and now
8 A date to remember
9 Food you like!
10 Looking good!
11 Life’s an adventure!
12 Have you ever?
1 Hello everybody!
2 Meeting people
3 The world of work
4 Take it easy!
5 Where do you live?
6 Can you speak English?

7. 7 Then and now
In 1989 I lived
in Ireland. I
worked at a
bank.
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8. Where did
you live in
1989?
I lived in
Sweden.
Jim Anne
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9. Where did you
work in
Sweden?
I worked at
a school.
Jim Anne
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10. My husband and I
lived in Thailand. We
worked at a
hospital.
Mary
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11. Patrick lived in Ireland.
He worked at a bank.
Anne lived in Sweden.
She worked at a school.
Mary and her husband
lived in Thailand. They
worked at a hospital.
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12. Past Simple: spelling of regular verbs
work + ed worked
live + d lived
start + ed started
love + d loved
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13. only one syllable
plan
If verb has
stop
Past Simple: spelling of regular verbs
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14. one vowel
only one syllable
If verb has
stopplan
&
Past Simple: spelling of regular verbs
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15. only one syllable
If verb has
stop
one vowel
plan
+ consonant
&
Past Simple: spelling of regular verbs

16. plan planned
stop stopped
If verb has one vowel
&
+ consonant
double the consonant and add ed
only one syllable
Past Simple: spelling of regular verbs
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17. ied ied
If verb ends in a consonant + y
stud carry y
drop y and add ied
Past Simple: spelling of regular verbs
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18. 1. He works in Mexico.
He ______ in Bolivia in 2008.
2. I live in Brazil.
I _____ in Taiwan last year.
We ____ in Peru when I was born.
worked
lived
lived
Fill-in the blanks
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19. 1. We study accounting.
We _______ math last year.
2. They earn their own money.
They _______ a lot of money
last month.
studied
earned
Fill-in the blanks
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20. lives
lived
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add –ed or add –d or drop y
and add –ied

21. present past
Where do you live?
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22. present past
Do you like Chocolate?
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23. Yes, we played all weekend.
present past
Does that dog play with you?
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24. present past
DidDoes
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25. Past simple: past action that is finished
1. We math last year.
2. They a lot of money last month.
3. I in Chile in 2006.
4. Where did you go this morning?
5. She didn’t enjoy the party on Friday.
studied
earned
lived
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26. 4- What is the past of these verbs? Listen and
repeat.
watch talk move interview
Earn open study start

27. 5- Listen to Text C. Complete it with the past
form of the verbs in Exercise 4

28. present
present
past
past
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So what did I do?
…we didn’t have much…
...she didn’t have in real…

29. 6- Complete the questions about Oprah.
1- Where did her father work?
In a coal mine.
2- What ____ her mother do?
She cleaned houses.
3- Who ____ Oprah ____ with?
Her grandmother.
4- What ____she ____? Drama.

30. 5. When ____she ____Michael Jackson?
In 1993.
6. How much ____she ____last year?
$260 million.
7. When ____she ____the girls school?
In 2007.
8. ____her parent ____much money?
No, they didn’t.

31. Practice: Talking about you
1- Complete the sentences with did, was, or
were.
1. Where ____you born?
Where ____ your mother born?
2. When ____you start school?
3. When ____you learn to read and write?
4. Who ____your first teacher?
5. What ____your favorite subject?
6. Where ____you live when ____a child?
7. ____you live in a house or an apartment?

32. 2. Stand up! Ask two or three students the
questions in Exercise 1.
3. Tell the class some of the information you
learned.
Rich was born in….
His mother……
He started school…..

33. THE YEAR I WAS BORN (Irregular verbs)
1- Look at the list of irregular verbs on page 133.
Write the Past Simple form of the verbs in the
box. Which verb isn’t irregular?
Be was/ were beat _______ become _______begin_______
buy _______ come_______ get _______ go _______
Have _______ hit ________ invent ______ leave _______
Make _______ sell _______ sing _______ win _______

34. 2- Listen and repeat the Past Simple forms.
3- James was born in 1989. Look at the pictures.
What things from 1989 can you see?
4- Listen to James’s conversation with his
parents about 1989. Complete the sentences
with the verbs you hear. Listen again and
check.

35. 5- Work with a partner. Ask and answer
questions about the year James was born.
1. When/ James and his parents leave Brazil?
2. Where/ his father get a job?
3. How many years/ the Berlin Wall stand?
4. Why/ the baseball game stop?
5. What/ Tim Berners-Lee invent?
6. How much money/ he win?
7. How many Game Boys/ Nintendo sell?
8. What/ Madonna sing?

36. READING AND SPEAKING
1- Translate these words.
NOUNS
Airshow
Fighter jet
Flight
Experiences
satellite
VERBS
Break a record
Travel
Disappear
Join
Survive
crash
ADJECTIVES
Excellent
Dangerous
Secret

37. 2- Look at the texts and complete these
sentences.
- Amelia Mary Earhart was the first _________.
- Yuri Gagarin was the first __________.
3- Work in two groups.
Group A: Read about Amelia Earhart.
Group B: Read about Yuri Gagarin.

38. 4- Are the sentences true or false about your
person? Correct the false sentence.
1. ___ He/she came from a rich family.
2. ___He/she had a short but exciting life.
3. ___He/she fought in a World War.
4. ___He/she wanted to be a pilot when she/ he
was a child.
5. ___He/she flew a fighter jets.
6. ___He/she married, but didn’t have any
children.
7. ___He/she traveled around the world to talk
about his/ her experiences.
8. ___He/she died in a plane crash.

39. 6. Complete the questions about the other
person. Then ask and answer them with your
partner.
About Amelia Earhart:
1- Where…..she born?
2- What ….. She study first?
3-When …..she first …..up in a plane?
4- When …..she …..her first record?
5- …..she marry? …..she …..any children?
6- What …..she do in 1935?
7- Where …..her plane disappear?

40. About Yuri Gagarin:
8. Where …..he born?
9. When …..he see his first plane?
10. Why …..he …..the Russian Air Force?
11. Why …..the doctors choose Yuri to be an
astronaut?
12. What …..he do in 1961?
13. Why …..he …..around the world?
14. How …..he die?

41. VOCABULARY AND LISTENING (Words that go
together)
Verbs and nouns
1. Match a verb in A with a noun in B.
Sometimes there is more than one answer.
A B
Become
Drink
Drive
Eat
Break
Cook
Play
Watch
Win
Speak
Ride
Earn
Television
a sandwich
a bike
A pilot
A car
A meal
A lot of money
The guitar
Spanish
A record
A cup of coffee
A medal

42. Prepositions
2. Complete the sentences with the correct
preposition.
1. I like listening to music.
2. I went ____the beach ____my friends.
3. We went to Jamaica ____our vacation last
year.
4. She traveled ____the world.
5. I get up ____eleven o’clock ____Sundays.
6. My father works ____an office downtown.

43. 7. Our town has a lot ____tourists ____the
summer.
8. My parents are ____home ____the moment.
9. What’s ____television this evening?
10. I wrote an e-mail ____my daughter.

44. Compound nouns
3. Match a noun in A with a noun in B. Do we
write one word or two?
A B
Orange
Train
Swimming
Hand
Boy
News
Movie
Birthday
Washing
Living
Parking
Paper
Room
Pool
Juice
Lot
Star
Card
Station
Machine
Friend
bag

45. EVERYDAY ENGLISH
1- Write the correct word below the numbers.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
6th 10th 12th 13th 16th
17th 20th 21st 30th 31st
2- Ask and answer questions with a partner
about the months of the year.
Ex: Which is the first month?
- January
Fourth twelfth sixth twentieth second thirtieth
Thirteenth thirty-first fifth seventeenth tenth
Sixteenth first third twenty-first

46. The days of the week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

47. The months of the year
1-January 7-July
2-February 8- August
3-March 9- September
4-April 10- October
5-May 11-November
6-June 12- December

48. What’s the date?
1- When is International Women’s day?
2- When is April Fool’s day?
3- When is Halloween’s day?
4- When is International workers’ day?
5- When is Liberation day of Vietnam?
6- When is Independence day of Vietnam?
7- When is Valentine’s day?

49. 3- Practice saying these dates
April 1 November 19 12/19/83
March 2 June 23 10/3/99
September 17 2/29/76 5/31/200
7/15/2007
Listen and check.
4- Listen and write the dates you hear.

50. 5. Ask and answer the questions with your
partner.
1- What’s the date today?
2- When did this class start? When does it end?
3- When’s Valentine’s Day
4- When’s Mother’s Day this year?
5- When’s your birthday?
6- What century is it now?
7- What are the dates of public holidays in your
country?