Survivor 9
9 Survivors
Grammar
The past simple tense: regular verbs
Grammar in use
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Look at the picture and the conversation. Who are the three people?
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 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.

Which part of the verb do we use after did or didn’t?
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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
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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.
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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.

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.
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 9.2 Listen and check your answers.
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Write about Adam’s great-grandmother.
EXAMPLE
Adam’s great-grandmother’s name was Sheena. She was born …
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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.
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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

in time. She tried to pull the child back
into the chair, but he was too heavy.
‘Help! Help!’ she shouted
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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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