5A Three generations Language Summary 5, Student’s Book p138

Adjectives (2) VOCABULARY 5.1 Past Simple (1): be (questions and

1 a Write the adjectives. Then write their opposites. short answers) GRAMMAR 5.2
3 a Make questions with these words.
1 het mase t he same d ifferent
1 Andy / Was / best friend / Matt’s ?
2 tique q n
Was Andy Matt’s best friend?
3 rongib b i
2 class / Matt and Andy / the same / Were / in ?
4 liferynd f u
5 latl t s
6 ypahp h u
3 the USA / Was / 1992 / in / Matt / in ?
7 lewl w i
8 kycul l u
9 toh h c
4 the party / Matt and Andy’s hotel / Was / at ?
10 icfstnaat f a
11 mzaagni a t

b Which of these adjectives do not go with the nouns?

5 at first / Penny / friendly / very / Was ?
1 A hot/cold/friendly day.
2 A short/cold/wonderful country.
3 A happy/hot/lucky family.
6 Matt and Penny / 1994 / married / Were / in ?
4 A tall/quiet/friendly café.
5 An interesting/ill/amazing city.
6 A noisy/quiet/well place.
7 Bristol / Jason / born / Was / in ?
7 An amazing/unhappy/awful restaurant.
8 A terrible/short/boring job.

Past Simple (1): be (positive and negative) GRAMMAR 5.1 8 it / yesterday / Was / birthday / Jason’s ?

2 Read about Matt’s holiday in the USA in 1994. Choose the

correct words.

b Write short answers to the questions in 3a.

When I 1 was /were thirteen my best friend 2 was/were Andy. 1 Yes, he was.
We 3 was/were in the same class at school. Ten years later, 2
in 1994, Andy and I 4 was/were on holiday in Miami, in the
USA. One evening there 5 was/were a party in our hotel. There 3
6 wasn’t/weren’t any other English people at the party – they
4
7was/were all American. There 8 was/were one very beautiful
5
woman at the party called Penny. She 9 wasn’t/weren’t very
friendly at fi rst – but two years later we 10 was/were husband 6
and wife! Our son, Jason, 11was/were born four years later
7
in Bristol, where we live now. It 12 was/were his thirteenth
birthday yesterday! 8

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 1994
4 Read about 1994. Then fill in the gaps with these question
words and was or were.

Where Who How old What When (x2)

1 Where was the football World Cup in 1994? The football World Cup was in the USA.
The final was between Italy and Brazil
In the USA. on 17th July, 1994. Brazil won 3–2 on
2 the final? penalties.
In 1994 Bill Clinton was the President
On 17th July.
of the USA. John Major was the British
3 the President of the USA? Prime Minister and Boris Yeltsin was the
Bill Clinton.
Russian President.
There was a general election in South
4 the South African general election?
Africa in April 1994. Nelson Mandela
In April 1994. became the first black President of
South Africa.
5 the most popular films?
The Lion King and Forrest Gump were
The Lion King and Forrest Gump. the most popular films in the USA. Tom
6 Tom Hanks in 1994? Hanks, who won an Oscar for best actor
in Forrest Gump, was 38 at the time.
He was 38.

5B Famous films
Life events VOCABULARY 5.3 Past Simple (2): regular and irregular verbs
1 Choose the correct verbs.
(positive) GRAMMAR 5.3
2 a Write the Past Simple of these regular verbs.
1 meet/ leave 11 win/leave the lottery
school 1 play played 5 study 9 marry
12 move/study to
move/make a film 2 start 6 look 10 want
2 England
meet/win my 3 visit 7 live 11 like
3 13 become/study
husband physics 4 love 8 work 12 stop

4 get/make married 14 get/have divorced b Fill in the gaps with the Past Simple forms of these irregular
verbs.
5 meet/write a book 15 become/have
6 study/move famous have meet get leave become
make go win write be
English 16 have/win a dream
7 write/have 17 make/meet my wife 1 My grandparents had five boys and two girls.
children 18 study/leave 2 Yolanda and Steve married in July last year.
8 get/move house university
3 John F Kennedy President of the USA in 1961.
9 win/meet an 19 make/write a letter
4 I £1,000 on the lottery last weekend!
Oscar 20 meet/make a lot of
5 I my husband when I to Turkey in 2002.
10 become/win a film money
6 After Gary school he children’s books.
director
7 My uncle a lot of money when he young.

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Review: Past Simple
3 Read about an actor and an actress who appeared in James Cameron’s films. Put the verbs in the Past Simple.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Sigourney Weaver

Arnold Schwarzenegger 1 was (be) Susan Weaver 10 (be)
th
born on October 8 1949 in
born in Austria on July 30th 1947. He
2 (move) to the USA when he New York City. She 11
was 21. He 3 (study) business at the University (change) her name to Sigourney Weaver when she
12 (be) a teenager. She 13 (study)
of Wisconsin and he also 4 (want) to be an actor.
He 5 (make) the first Terminator film, directed by English literature at Stanford University and drama in
James Cameron, in 1984 and Terminator 2: Judgement Day in New York. She 14 (become) famous in 1979
when she 15 (win) an Oscar for her
1991. He was also in the third Terminator film: Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines in 2003. Then he 6 (become) performance as Ellen Ripley in Alien. She 16
a politician and he 7 (be) Governor of California (make) three more Alien films – Aliens, directed by
from 2003 to 2011. Arnold 8 (meet) TV journalist James Cameron, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection.
Maria Schriver, in 1977 and they 9 (get) married Sigourney 17 (marry) another director, Jim
in 1986. Simpson, in 1984 and they have one child.

Past Simple (2): Wh- questions GRAMMAR 5.4 Review: Past Simple questions
4 Fill in the gaps in these questions. There is one gap for each word. 5 a Fill in the gaps with did, was or were.

1 Where was Arnold Schwarzenegger born? 1 Where were you born?

In Austria. 2 Where you live when you
2 When he to the USA?
a child?
When he was 21.
3 he the first Terminator film? 3 your parents born in the

In 1984. same country as you?

4 years he Governor of California? 4 What you do last night?
Eight years.
5 When your last English class?
5 he married to in 1986?
Maria Schriver. 6 Where you go last weekend?

6 Sigourney Weaver ? 7 Where your father live when

On October 8th 1949.
he young?
7 she her name?
8 it cold last night?
When she was a teenager.
8 she at Stanford University? 9 When you start learning
English literature. English?
9 she an Oscar?
10 What you have for breakfast
In 1979.
10 Alien films she ? this morning?

Four. b Answer the questions for you.

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 rEAL
5C wORLD Four weekends

Weekend activities VOCABULARY 5.4 Showing interest REAL WORLD 5.1

1 Yvonne lives in Melbourne, Australia. Read Asking follow-up questions REAL WORLD 5.2
her blog. Then fill in the gaps with the Past 2 a Yvonne is at work on Monday morning. Read the
Simple of the verbs in the boxes. conversation. Then choose the correct responses 1–6.
stay be go to get do YVONNE Hi, Stuart. How was your weekend?
go for clean (x2) have
STUART It was fantastic! I went away for the weekend.
YVONNE 1Oh, great!/What a shame. a Where did you go?
www.yvonnesspace.net STUART To Sydney.
YVONNE 2 Oh dear./Wow! b ?
Yvonne’s STUART It was beautiful. We had a wonderful time.

space YVONNE c ?
STUART With Linda, my girlfriend. It was her birthday.
Saturday 14th October YVONNE 3 Oh, nice./You’re joking! d ?
1
I stayed in bed STUART We went to the Opera House and did lots of shopping –
until nine thirty and you know, the usual things.
then I 2 the YVONNE e ?
house and 3
STUART In a nice little hotel near Bondi Beach.
the washing. David 4 the car in the
5
YVONNE It sounds great!
morning and we a walk together in
STUART Yes, it was. So how was your weekend?
the afternoon. David 6 very tired when
7 YVONNE It was fi ne, very quiet. My husband, David, was in bed
we home, so he went to bed. In the
8 with a cold.
evening I the cinema with Katy and
we 9 a great time. Bed at midnight. STUART 4 Oh, great!/Oh, dear. Is he OK now?
YVONNE No, he isn’t.
STUART 5What a shame./Wow! f ?
stay do go to go for YVONNE I went to the cinema.
watch (x2) write (x2) have
STUART 6You’re joking!/Oh, right. g ?
YVONNE It was called ‘Frank’s Happiness’.
www.yvonnesspace.net STUART Oh yes, I know it. What did you …
b Make questions with these words and write them in the
Sunday 15th October
correct places a–g in 2a.
I 10 a run in the morning, but David
11 1 go / did / you / Where ?
a bad cold, so he 12
at home and 13 TV. I 14 2 did / What / do / there / you ?
my parents’ house for lunch and then in the 3 did / stay / Where / you ?
afternoon I 15 a long email to our son, 4 like / it / What / was ?
Harry – he’s in South America at the moment. In
5 go / Who / with / you / did ?
the evening I 16 my Spanish homework
6 you / evening / do / did / Saturday / on / What ?
and 17 a report for work. Then I
18 a DVD with David before bed. Why 7 did / What / see / you ?
are there only two days in a weekend?!

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 VOCABULARY
5D AND SKILLS Competitions

Adjectives (3) VOCABULARY 5.5 Reading

1 Find 12 adjectives (RU). 3 a Read the email about Ruth’s weekend. Change the
incorrect words in bold.
S E C R E X C I T E D
B O R E D O R I C H E
U C O E M P T Y P L A
S H W Q F A M T O X P ellenroberts99@gomail.net
Y I D A N G E R O U S
C L E A N M L E R E A Hi Ellen
T J D I R T Y R A U F my won
Do you remember that 1me boyfriend Phil 2win a
C O M F O R T A B L E
competition last June? Well, last weekend we went 3in
Adjectives with very, really, quite, too
Paris! It 4were amazing! We travelled first class on the
VOCABULARY 5.6
plane and stayed in a 5too beautiful hotel by the River
2 a Choose the correct words in these conversations.
1 Seine. On Saturday afternoon we 6walk around the city
A Wow! That’s a 1 really /too big TV.
and 7go to the Louvre Museum. Then in the evening
B Yes, I bought it last week. It was 2too/very expensive.
2 we went to a classical concert – it was 8too good. On
A Do you want to come to the Caritas club tonight?
It’s 3quite/too cheap and the music’s 4really/too good. Sunday we 9have breakfast by the river and it 10were
B No, I hate that place. It’s always 5too/quite crowded.
very romantic. Then 11on the afternoon we went up the
3
A Hi, Chris. You look 6 quite/really happy today. Eiffel Tower. When we 12was at the top Phil asked me to
B Yes, I won £10 million on the lottery last weekend!
marry 13he! I said yes, of course! Then we had dinner in
4
A Mum, can we go and see Dead Again?
a wonderful restaurant and we 14arrive back in London
B Sorry, you’re 7very/too young. It’s for people over 18. 15in about midnight. It was a fantastic weekend!
b Match conversations 1–4 to pictures A–D.
Speak soon. Ruth

A B
b Read the email again. Then complete sentences
1–8 with when they did these things.

1 Phil and Ruth went to Paris last weekend .

2 They went up the Eiffel Tower on Sunday afternoon .
3 They went to a museum .
4 They had breakfast by the river .
C D 5 They walked around the city .
6 They went to a classical concert .
7 They arrived back in London .
8 Phil won a competition .

Reading and Writing Portfolio 5 p72

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