grammar extension

UNIT

Past simple could / couldn’t

1 Complete these sentences with the past simple 4 Complete the sentences with could or couldn’t.
form of the verbs in the box.
I couldn’t speak English when I was two.
come find hate not think see wish 1 My younger brother see the stage,
so I changed places with him.
Jane wished she was on holiday.
2 When he was young, dad play the
1 They the Shakespeare play. It was guitar and sing well. He’s a natural musician.
too tragic for them.
3 I finish my homework last night. It
2 I J.K. Rowling in a shop yesterday, was very difficult.
but I didn’t say anything.
4 They speak two languages because
3 He an old painting in the attic and it their mother was English and their father was
could be valuable. Spanish.
4 We the festival would be so much 5 I read from an early age. I loved
fun. It was brilliant! books.
5 My brother first in a writing
competition last week. Cumulative grammar
was / were 5 Complete the dialogue with the correct form of
the words in the box.
2 Complete the text with was / wasn’t or were /
be do go know look surf travel
weren’t.
We went to see a play last night. It (1) was Jane: Hi! What (1) are you doing?
Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Paula: I (2) the internet. I need some
It (2) very good and we laughed all the information on explorers in the 16th
way through. There (3) some very century. It’s my history homework.
good actors. The main actor, who played
Jane: Right. Well, I (3) about
Benedict, (4) excellent. But I think they
Christopher Columbus and Amerigo
need to improve their publicity. The theatre
Vespucci.
(5) full. In fact, there (6)
many people in the audience at all. Paula: So do I. I (4) for some other
explorers now. Who (5) Vasco da
Gama?
Past simple: questions
Jane: I don’t know.
3 Write questions using the past simple. Then Paula: Here we are. He was a Portuguese
write the answers. explorer. He was the first European to
reach India.
Who / be / Michael Jackson? (a pop star)
Who was Michael Jackson? Jane: When (6) he to India?
He was a pop star. Paula: In 1498.
1 be / Pablo Picasso / explorer? (No) Jane: He (7) to India again in 1502,
but that trip was not so successful.

2 Who / write / the Harry Potter books? (J.K.

Rowling)

3 Christopher Columbus / discover Australia?

(No)

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