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1 Write the verbs in the correct column and then write the Past 1 Charles Dickens was born in 1812. 
Simple forms.
2 Charles Dickens wrote in English. 
study meet give win buy visit speak become 3 Charles Dickens only wrote about rich people. X
stay leave start get enjoy stop do lose 4 Charles Dickens’ father had a job in an office. 
5 Charles Dickens’ life was difficult because
REGULAR VERBS IRREGULAR VERBS he had eight children. X
Visit - visited Buy - Bought 6 Charles Dickens was good at school. 
Star – started Give - Gave 7 Charles Dickens spent all his father’s money. X
Stop - stopped Win - won 8 Charles Dickens worked every night. X
Stay – stayed Speak - spoke 9 Charles Dickens earned very little money. 
Enjoy - enjoyed Become - became 10 Oliver Twist was Charles Dickens’ friend. X
Study - studied Leave - left
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Lose - lost
Do - Did
3 Complete the sentences with a verb from the box in the Past Simple. Make
one of the verbs negative.
Get - Got
Meet - met marry earn die stay come be born become
have help work study speak stop like
1 point for each correct answer:
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My grandparents (1) Married in Hungary in the
1920s. They (2) came to England in 1946, after
2 Read the text. Are the statements true (✓) or false the war. My grandfather worked in a factory in
(✗)? Birmingham and he (3) studied English at
CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870)
night.
Charles Dickens is a famous writer in the English language. He wrote
about the real world of England and many of the people in his books My grandmother (4) stayed at home because she
were not rich, but poor and hungry. only (5) spoke Hungarian and so she couldn’t
Charles Dickens’s family lived in London and his father worked in an get a job. Life was difficult because my grandfather
office. It was a good job, but he always spent a lot of money and often (6)did not earn much money in the factory. My
there was no money to buy food. There were eight children in the grandparents (7) had three children, my
family, so life was hard. mother and my two uncles. They (8) helped their
Charles went to school and his teachers thought he was very clever. But parents as much as they could. My grandparents
when Charles was only eleven, his father lost all his money and the family (9) stopped work when they were sixty and
left their house. Charles got a job washing bottles. He worked ten hours a they liked having a lot of free time together.
day and he earned six shillings (30p) a week. Every night, after work, he Unfortunately, my grandfather (10) died in 1994, but
walked four miles back to his room. Charles hated it and never forgot it. my grandmother is still alive.
He used it in many books, for example David Copperfield and Oliver
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4 Complete the conversation.
Circle the correct answer.
A Where (1) last Saturday evening?
B I went to work.
A To work? Why?
B Because I (2) the money.
A But you (3) every Saturday last month, too.
Why don’t you have any money now?
B Because I (4) all the money from last month.
A What (5) with the money?
B A CD and video game.
A (6) your sister the money that you (7) for last
week?
B No, (8) . I (9) , but there isn’t a problem. She
always has a lot of money. Anyway, what (10) last
Saturday evening?
A I (11) out because I had no money!

1 a did you b go c did you go d do you go

2 a needed b needs c did need d do need
3 a work b did work c didn’t work d worked
4 a spent b spend c spended d did spend
5 a do you buy b did you buy
c you buy d you bought
6 a You give b You gave
c Did you give d You did give
7 a ask b asks c asked d didn’t ask
8 a I didn’t b I don’t c I did d I do
9 a can b couldn’t c could d can’t
10 a you did b do you do c you didn’t d did you do
11 a don’t go b go c didn’t go d not go
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5 Write sentences about someone in your family. Where and

when was he/she born? Where did he/she live when he/she
was small? What did he/she study? What did he/she do in
his/her free time? Also write about his/her first job.

My mother was born in Tolima

When he was very young she moved to Bogotá
She used to work cleaning houses
she is now retired
He likes to be calm at home resting
(6 points for communication of ideas, 4 for grammatical accuracy, 14
4 for lexis and use of link words)

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