GUILLERMO NIÑO MEDINA SCHOOL, VILLAVICENCIO.
ENGLISH WORKGUIDE, 10th COURSE. TEACHER. TERESA CAMARGO REYES.
TOPIC: BIOGRAPHIES. SIMPLE PAST TENSE.
Did you know that...?
1. Match the pictures with the biographies (A-B-C-D). Relacionar las imágenes con las biografías.
A) He was born in Liverpool, England in
1940. He wanted to be an artist. In 1962
he formed the band “The Beatles” with
Paul Mcartney, George Harrison and Ringo
Star. He married Yoko Ono, a Japanese
girl. The band divided in 1970. One of the
greatest albums was “Let It Be”. In 1975
John's and Yoko's son, Sean was born. On
December 8, 1980. Mark Chapman, a young
man, shot John outside his home in New
York. John died in a police car on the way
to the hospital.
C) He was born in San Francisco in
1955. He became interested in
computers when he was a teenager
and attended lessons after school at
Hewlett Packard (HP). In 1974, he got
a job as a technician at the video
game maker Atari. He and Steve
Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. They
developed the Mac. It was the first
small computer. He created Oscar-
winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’
and ‘Finding Nemo’. His name has a
connection to innovative products like
the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. His
attention to design, function and style
won him millions of fans. He died in
October 2011, at the age of 56.
Pelé John Lennon
B) Edson Arantes Do Nascimento was born
in October 23, 1940, in Brazil. He was the son of a
minor league soccer player. He grew up in an
extremely poor neighbourhood, where the only
entertainment for a poor boy was to play soccer. He
played for his first soccer team at the age of eleven.
Some years later, Brito took him to Santos where he
became one of the best of that soccer team. In
1970 he played for Brazil’s World Cup team and
brought the title to the team. Then he played for
the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer
League. In 1977 the Cosmos won the league
championship and finally he retired after that
victory.
D) She was born in Albania in 1910, and died in
1997. Her real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
She became famous all over the world for starting
the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. She
began this work in 1950 and for over forty years,
she looked after the poor, sick, orphaned, and
dying. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for
her humanitarian work. She decided to become a
nun when she was 12. She arrived in India in 1929
and became a nun two years later. In 1946 she
received a call from God to leave the convent and
help the poor. She was an international symbol of
charity, visiting many countries to help poor
children. After she died, the Pope started the
process to make her a saint.
Mother Theresa Steve Jobs
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2. Reading comprehension. Correct the following sentences with information from the biographies.
(corregir las siguientes frases con la información de las biografías)

REGULAR VERBS
a. John Lennon died in his apartment in England.
Infinitive form Simple Past
John Lennon died in New York, when a man shot him
Attend attended outside his apartment.
Arrive arrived
b. John formed a band at the age of sixty-two.
look looked
decide decided John formed a band at the age of twenty-two.
start started
c. Pelé’s father played for an important soccer team.
found founded Pelé played for an important soccer team.
create created
d. He played soccer for the first time in 1970.
develop developed He played soccer for the first time in 1951.
die died
e. Apple was
retire the name of the first small computer.
retired
The Mac was the name of the first small computer.
play played
f. divide
Steve Jobs died in the divided
20th century.
marry married Steve Jobs died in the 21st century.

formJobs had a job atformed

g. Steve Apple and soon.
want wanted Steve Jobs got a job as a technician at the video game maker
Atari, then he founded Apple in 1976.

h. Mother Teresa became a saint when she died.

Mother Teresa became a saint when she died.

i. She won the Nobel Prize because she worked in a convent.

She won the Nobel Prize because of her humanitarian work.

3. The underlined verbs in the texts are regular and irregular verbs. You can identify the regular verbs for
their ending ED. The irregular verbs have a special writing. You can help yourself by checking lists of
irregular verbs.

ACTIVITIES.
a. Complete the charts below with all the regular and irregular form of the texts. (completar las tablas
con todos los verbos regulares y los verbos irregulars de los textos. Puede ayudarse con listas de
verbos). See the example
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b. Now, choose five regular verbs and five irregular verbs and write sentences in simple past tense.
(ahora seleccionar cinco verbos regulares y cinco verbos irregulares de la actividad anterior y escriba
oraciones en pasado simple)

REGULAR VERBS:

 Last week, Lisa’s parents decided to go to the beach

 I played with my cousin Rose yesterday
 Felix wanted to buy a car
 My aunt Monica got married last year
 Anna founded a company

IRREGULAR VERBS:
 I won a medal at my school
 I liked to make noise when I was a child
 What did you like to do when you were a child?
 Johan took the boxes to the store
 My cousin got married last week

4. Read Karen’s daily routine. Then, turn it into the past form. You must identify first the verbs(Pasar a
pasado simple el texto, primero identifique los verbos)

On Mondays, she gets up at 7 o’clock. She has a shower and

then she has breakfast with her brother and her little
sister. After breakfast she brushes her teeth, gets dressed
and then she goes to school by bus. The school starts at
7.30 and finishes at 12.00. She gets home at 1.30 and has
lunch with her family. She does her homework and then
plays with some friends in the park. In the evening she
listens to music and watches her favourite TV programme.
She has dinner at 9 o’clock and phones some friends. Finally,
she goes to sleep at 11.30.
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Today is Tuesday. Yesterday,

she ...

Past form:
On Monday, she got up at 7 o’clock. She took a shower and then she had breakfast with her brother and her little
sister. After breakfast she brushed her teeth, got dressed and then she went to school by bus. The school started
at 7.30 and finished at 12.00. She got home at 1.30 and had lunch with her family. She did her homework and
then played with some friends in the park. In the evening she listened to music and watched her favorite TV
program. She had dinner at 9 o’clock and phones some friends. Finally, she went to sleep at 11.30.

5. Now look up the biography of a famous person and summary in this graphic. (buscar la biografía de una
persona famosa y resumirla en el gráfico)

BIOGRAPHY RESEARCH

FREDDIE MERCURY

He was born in 1946 HE DIED IN 1991

PERSONAL LIFE: EARLY LIFE

Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town in the Mercury spent most of his childhood in India where
British protectorate of Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) on 5 he began taking piano lessons at the age of seven
September 1946. while living with relatives. In 1954, at the age of
In 1964, Mercury and his family fled from Zanzibar to escape eight, Mercury was sent to study at St. Peter's
the violence of the revolution against the Sultan of Zanzibar School, a British-style
His real name wasboarding
Farrokh school
Bulsarafor(ofboys, in
and his mainly Arab government, in which thousands of Panchgani
Parsi andnear Bombay.
Indian At the
origin) but age of 12, he
he never formed
liked
ethnic Arabs and Indians were killed. They moved into a a school
it. band, the Hectics, and covered rock and roll
small house at 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, Middlesex, artists such as
Mercury CliffaRichard
used piano asand Little
the headRichard.
of hisOne of
England. After first studying art at Isle worth Polytechnic in Mercury's former bandmates from the Hectics has
bed. He learned to play lying down and
West London, Mercury studied graphic art and design at said "the only music he listened to, and played, was
backwards in case inspiration came to
Ealing Art College, graduating with a diploma in 1969. He Western pop music". A friend recalls that he had "an
him when
uncanny hetowoke
ability listenup.
to the radio and replay what
later used these skills to design heraldic arms for his band
Queen. he heard on piano" cats, he had eight:
He was a fan of
He was known internationally as the leader of Delilah, Oscar, Dorothy, Mike, Goliath,
Queen, a British rock band that enjoyed Lily, Romeo and Tiffany. He called them
overwhelming success during the 70s and 80s, on the phone when he went on a trip; He
taking over from mythical groups such as The would ask someone to hold the horn next
BeatlesWHAT
and theISRolling Stones. He was
HE FAMOUS FOR? to their cats' ears to listen to him.
recognized for having an incredible voice.
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