Mtra.
Alicia Mejia Villalobos
DESCRIPCIÓN: Activities 22nd February
Unit 4
7.1 CHALLENGES- Simple Past
Rumbling Falls Cave, Tennessee
1. Look at the photo.
Where is the man? Do
you think this activity
looks exciting or
dangerous? Would you
like to do this?
____________________
____________________
__________ 2 Listen to a
caver talking about his
hobby. Answer the
questions.
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1 Why do his co-workers
think he is “a little
crazy”?
____________________
____________________
___________ 2 Why do
cavers work in teams?
____________________
____________________
__________ 3 How do
you get to Rumbling
Falls Cave?
____________________
____________________
__________ 3 Look at
these sentences from
Vic’s description. Match
the words in bold (1–3)
with their definitions (A–
C).
1 Sometimes you
have to take a risk
when you go
caving.
2 Every cave gives
you a different
challenge. 3
Getting to
Rumbling Falls
Cave is probably
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my biggest C. something very

achievement as a difficult to do
caver so far.
4. Discuss these
A. do something that
questions.
can be dangerous
B. success in something
after a lot of hard 1 Are you a person who takes risks or are
work and effort (e.g., you usually very careful?
passing an ____________________
examination) ____________________
_________

2 What is
a big
achieve
ment in
your life
so far?
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______
3 What
will be a
big
challeng
e for you
in the
future?
_________
________
________
________
________
________

Adventurers of the
year
Reading 2 Read the article again. Discuss the q
1 What do you think was Pasang’s big
1 Read the article. Are these sentences about Pasang, ______________________________
Marjan, or both of them? Write 1–6 in the diagram. Why is she famous?
______________________________
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1 She was born in Nepal.

2 Her father helped her.
3 She started when she was a teenager.
4 She trained for her job.
5 She competed in other countries.
6 She changed other people’s lives.
3 What was Marjan’s ambition?
______________________________
4 What were her team’s achievements
______________________________

Grammar simple past

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when she was

only 22. In
2015, there
was a terrible
earthquake in
Nepal. Many
people didn’t
have homes or
food, so
Pasang helped
them. These
days, she also
works to
improve
education in
Nepal, and is
famous for her
volunteer work
as well as her
mountaineering
THE .
MOU
NTAI THE CYCLIST
NEER Marjan Sadequi was born in
As a child, Afghanistan and grew up in the
capital city of Kabul. Her father
Pasang
was the national cycling coach
Lhamu
for the men’s team, and from
herpa Akita
very early on in life, Marjan’s
lived with
ambition was to become a
her younger
cyclist. Her father gave Marjan
sister in
her first bicycle when she was
Lukla, a
a teenager, and he soon saw
town in how much Marjan loved
northeaster cycling. As a result, he formed
n Nepal. a new women’s cycling team
Pasang’s with his daughter and ten other
parents died women. It wasn’t easy to
when she practice on the roads of Kabul,
was young. but in 2013, the team went to
As a New Delhi and they had their
teenager, first international competition
she trained against other women’s cycling
as a teams. They didn’t win, but they
mountaineer entered more races in Pakistan,
. She Kazakhstan, and South Korea.
worked as a Because of Marjan and her
mountain team’s achievements, more
guide, and women are now cycling in
she climbed Afghanistan.
Mount
Everest
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3 Look at the 5 Pronunciation /d/, /t/, or

grammar box on /_d/
previous page. Watch the video about the
Then underline
the verbs in the sound of regular verbs.
past tense in
Adventurers of https://www.youtube.com/watch?
the Year. Which v=9TPe_x80Pgs&t=416s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
are regular?
v=vv7cBMCBUdk&t=38s
Which are
irregular?
Listen to the -ed ending of these
regular verbs. Is the sound /d/, /t/,
or /_d/? Circle your answers. Then
4 Answer these listen again and repeat.
questions.
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1 What do we add n-
to regular verbs U2KyDVQRRMpZTmOcR5JC3FWdD
to form the /view?usp=sharing
simple past?
What do we add 1 lived /d/ /t/ /_d/ 5 waited /d/ /t/
if the verb ends /_d/
in -e? What if 2 fi nished /d/ /t/ /_d/ 6 looked /d/
the verb ends in /t/ /_d/
-y? 3 wanted /d/ /t/ /_d/ 7 decided /d/ /t/
/_d/
4 studied /d/ /t/ /_d/ 8 climbed /d/
/t/ /_d/
2 What is the base 6 Complete the text about another
form of the adventurer. Use the simple past
irregular verbs form of the verbs in parentheses.
you underlined?
grew up—grow THE PHOTOGRAPHER
up
Reza 1 was (be) born in Tabriz,
Iran, in
1952. He _________________(study)
2

3 How do we form architecture at a college in

the negative of Tehran, but he 3

___________________(not / become) an
most simple past
architect. When he was a
verbs? How do
teenager, Reza 4
we form the
__________________(love) photography,
negative of be? and after college, he 5
______________

(get) a job with

a local newspaper as a
photographer. But he6____________________
(not / want) to take photos of local
news, so in 1978 he 7 (go) abroad
and he 8 __________________(take) photos of
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wars. These days, __________________

he works for ________________ 4
National
Geographic What did he do after
magazine. college?
__________________
__________________
7 Read the text ________ 5 Did he
about Reza again. want to take photos of
Answer the local news?
questions. __________________
__________________
1 When was Reza ________ 6 When did
born? he go abroad?
_____ _____________________________
_____ _______________
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
_____
____
2
Wher 8 Look at the grammar box above.
e did Circle the correct option (a or b) to
he complete these rules.
study
archit 1 With most regular and
ecture irregular verbs, we make
? questions with _DID_____ .
_____ a) the simple past form of the
_____ verb
_____ b) did + base form of the
_____ verb
_____ 2 With be, we make questions
_____ with ______ .
_____
a) was and were
_____
b) did + base form of the
____
3 verb
What 9 Read these questions and answers
did he from interviews with
love Pasang and Marjan. Complete the
when questions.
he
was a 1 I: Where did you live as a child?
teena P: In Lukla, in northeastern Nepal.
ger? 2 I: When ___________ Mount
_____ Everest?
_____
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P: When I was 22
years old.
3 I:
Who_________
__ after the
earthquake?
P: People with no
homes and no
food.
4 I:____________
_ you born?
M: In Afghanistan.
5 I:____________
_ your first
international
race?
M: No, we didn’t.

10 Write six
questions in your
notebook to ask your
partner about the
past. Use some of
these ideas.