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1^> ClD Read and listen

Complete the story with these past tense verbs. Then listen and see if you were right.

•    pointed • pulled • smiled • knocked • stopped

•    recognised • looked • cried • died • recovered

•    started • followed • lifted • thanked

Grammar snapshot

Past simple of regular verbs

lnfinitive

start

smile

Past simple

started

smiled

Positive statements

A boy knocked at the door.

Ouestions

... the woman recover?

Negative statements

He ... enter the house.

Short answers Positive Negative

Yes, she .... No, she ....

		BA
w		'Kr
u		i
m		i

What are the missing words?

Notę these spelling changes. stop    stopped

ery    cried

2} ClD O u rnibite The sounds /1 /, / d / and /id /

stopped listened wanted (Look at page 122.)

3/ Practice

Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple tense to complete the sentences. Then write the events in the order in which they happened. Sentences a) and h) are in the correct order.

1 a) One evening, a boy wearing a blue scarf knocked at the door of Dr Blunden's surgery

b)    The woman (thank) the doctor.

c)    The boy and the doctor (walk) to a nearby Street.

d)    The boy (point) to his mother, who was unconscious in the snów.

e)    The doctor (explain) that the person to thank was the woman’s son.

f)    The boy (ask) the doctor to help his mother.

g)    The doctor (treat) the woman in hospital and (save) her life.

8 h) The woman said her son had died two years ago and showed the doctor the boy's blue scarf.

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