Past simple practice

Past simple practice

By Eduardo Cortés

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1. Barack Obama (live) _ in the White House from 2009 to 2017.

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2. The actress Natalie Portman (study)

 at Harvard University.

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3. The artist Georgia O’Keefe (paint)

 during the twentieth century.

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4. The composer Arthur Honegger

(die) in 1955.

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5. Angela Merkel (work)

  as a scientist before she was Chancellor of Germany.

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6. My parents (start)

  their business before I was born.

2nd Listening activity

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7. Humans

(begin) living in the caves about a thousand years ago.

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8. Many people

(live) in them until the fifteenth century.

Open Ended

9. They (build) houses and (move) to towns.

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10. Yandu Bista

born in a cave.

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11. She

(grow up) there with her family.

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12. They (not have) water in the cave.

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13. She (go) to the river every day and (bring) water up the mountain.

1st Listening activity

R

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A: Hi. How was your weekend? 

B: It was great, thanks.

A: What

you do?

Open Ended

B: I went to Osaka.

A: Oh,

_________

 you go shopping?

B: No, I

_______

. I went to a museum.

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A: Oh, OK. What

 you see there?

B: An exhibition about the lives of people from the fifteenth century. It was fantastic!

Open Ended

A: _____

you go with anyone?

B: I _____

go with anyone, but I met an old friend afterward for lunch.