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Saturday 7 September 2019

Past simple and -ed: grammar lesson 19

Level: Intermediate / B1
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Time for another grammar lesson! Back to tenses, and specifically...



Past simple and -ed
A. Past simple
Read this page from an explorer's diary. Write each verb in brackets in the past simple.
We 1       started   (start) our journey in October. Three of us 2                                  (leave) early in the morning and the rest of the group 3                                         (follow) us an hour later. The group 4                                             (walk) all day and in the evening we 5                                   (find) a small lake with fresh water. The desert 6                                          (be) cold but very beautiful. My colleagues 7                                         (photograph) the night sky until finally we 8                                                                  (go) to bed. In the morning the team   9                                          (continue) the journey but it 10                                          (become) harder and harder to walk in the heat...
B. Quiz
Test your knowledge of great explorers. Fill in the gaps with the past simple of these verbs, then answer the questions.
                arrive                     land                        lead                        reach                      sail
  1. Who       reached   the South Pole first?
A Richard Branson                             B Roald Amundsen                             C Robert Scott
  1. Who                                        the first expedition westwards from Europe to Asia via the Pacific?
A Ferdinand Magellan                        B Marco Polo                                       C David Attenborough
  1. Who                                        on the moon?
A Yuri Gagarin                                    B Neil Armstrong                                C Buzz Lightyear
  1. Who                                        to America first?
A The Vikings                                      B The Normans                                   C Christopher Columbus
  1. Which European first                                           in Australia?
A Thor Heyerdahl                               B Captain James T Kirk                     C Captain James Cook

C. Pronunciation: -ed endings
How many syllables are each word, 1, 2 or 3? Which -ed ending is pronounced - [t], [d], or [ɪd]?
  1. invented                 3    (in – vent – ed)              [ɪd]         
  2. danced                                                                                  
  3. discussed                                                                              
  4. decided                                                                                 
  5. travelled                                                                               
  6. arrived                                                                                  
  7. introduced                                                                            
  8. landed                                                                                   
  9. worked                                                                                  
  10. lifted                                                                                     

Adapted from Language Leader Pearson 2008


Answers below!
And for more tense practice, go to grammar lessons 57, 10, 13, and 17



A. Past simple
Read this page from an explorer's diary. Write each verb in brackets in the past simple.
We 1       started   (start) our journey in October. Three of us 2                 left          (leave) early in the morning and the rest of the group 3        followed                (follow) us an hour later. The group 4            walked                   (walk) all day and in the evening we 5 found                     (find) a small lake with fresh water. The desert 6         was                         (be) cold but very beautiful. My colleagues 7        photographed                       (photograph) the night sky until finally we 8                                 went                       (go) to bed. In the morning the team   9         continued              (continue) the journey but it 10                 became                  (become) harder and harder to walk in the heat...
B. Quiz
Test your knowledge of great explorers. Fill in the gaps with the past simple of these verbs, then answer the questions.
                arrive                     land                        lead                        reach                      sail
  1. Who       reached   the South Pole first?
A Richard Branson                             B Roald Amundsen                             C Robert Scott
  1. Who       led                           the first expedition westwards from Europe to Asia via the Pacific?
A Ferdinand Magellan                        B Marco Polo                                       C David Attenborough
  1. Who       landed                    on the moon?
A Yuri Gagarin                                    B Neil Armstrong                                C Buzz Lightyear
  1. Who       sailed                      to America first?
A The Vikings                                      B The Normans                                   C Christopher Columbus
  1. Which European first          arrived                   in Australia?
A Thor Heyerdahl                               B Captain James T Kirk                     C Captain James Cook

C. Pronunciation: -ed endings
How many syllables are each word, 1, 2 or 3? Which -ed ending is pronounced - [t], [d], or [ɪd]?
  1. invented                 3    (in – vent – ed)              [ɪd]         
  2. danced                   1  danced                              [t]           
  3. discussed               2  dis - cussed                       [t]           
  4. decided                  3  dec – id - ed                     [ɪd]         
  5. travelled                2  trav - elled                         [d]          
  6. arrived                   2  a - rrived                            [d]          
  7. introduced             3  in – trod - uced                 [t]           
  8. landed                    2  land - ed                            [ɪd]         
  9. worked                   1  worked                              [t]           
  10. lifted                      2  lift - ed                              [ɪd]         

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