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The Past Simple Tense
The Past Simple Tense
ACTIVITY 1
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ACTIVITY 2.
2. READ THE TEXT AND SAY IF THE STATEMENTS BELOW ARE TRUE OR FALSE.
CORRECT THE FALSE ONES.
Chemists have always looked for ways of arranging the elements to reflect the
similarities between their properties. The modern periodic table lists the
elements in order of increasing atomic number (the number of protons in the
nucleus of an atom). Historically, however, relative atomic masses were used by
scientists trying to organize the elements.
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This was mainly because the idea of atoms being made up of smaller sub-atomic
particles (protons, neutrons and electrons) was not developed. Nevertheless, the
basis of the modern periodic table was well established and even used to predict
the properties of undiscovered elements long before the concept of the atomic
number was developed.
Although it is considered that Dmitri Mendeleev invented the periodic table and
was the first to publish a version of the table that we recognize today, there was
a number of other chemists before him who investigated patterns in the
properties of the elements that were known at the time. The earliest attempt to
classify the elements was in 1789, when Antoine Lavoisier grouped the elements
based on their properties into gases, non-metals, metals and earths. Several other
attempts were made to group elements together over the coming decades. In
1829, Johann Döbereiner, recognized triads of elements with chemically similar
properties, such as lithium, sodium and potassium, and showed that the properties
of the middle element could be predicted from the properties of the other two.
It was not until a more accurate list of the atomic mass of the elements became
available at a conference in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1860, that real progress was
made towards the discovery of the modern periodic table.
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THE PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE
AFFIRMATIVE FORM
I I work in a factory.
work
He He works in a factory.
It It works.
We We work in a factory.
If the verb ends in -SS, -SH, -CH, -O, o -X, we add -ES. To kiss
He kisses
To fish
He fishes
To watch
She watches
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THIRD SINGULAR PERSON (HE/SHE/IT) EXAMPLES
To go
She goes
To fix
He fixes
To study
He studies
If the verb ends in a consonant + -Y, we change -Y for -IES
To fly
She flies
To play
He plays
If the verb ends in a vowel + -Y, we add an -S
To stay
He stays
NEGATIVE FORM
does not
She She doesn't work in a factory.
doesn't
It It doesn't work.
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SUBJECT AUXILIARY VERB EXAMPLES
INTERROGATIVE FORM
I Do I work in a factory?
Do work?
it Does it work?
we Do we work in a factory?
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SHORT ANSWERS
do
you
he
she does
Yes,
it
we
you do
they
ACTIVITY 3.
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3. READ THE DIALOGUE AND WRITE DOWN A SIMILAR ONE.
Question: If H-two-O is the formula for water, what is the formula for ice?
Student: “H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O”
“That´s it, I can never remember the word.” answered the chemist.
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ACTIVITY 4
4. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT PAST TENSE OF THE VERBS IN
PARENTHESES.
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ACTIVITY 5
9. Describe semi-metals.
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