Fill in the gaps with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets:
1. You and Sally _________ not a school yesterday. (to be) 2. Uncle Conrad_________ to catch his bus. (to hurry) 3. Two doctors _________ into the room. (to rush) 4. I ________ Jesse in the park. (to meet) 5. Mozart ________ more than 600 pieces of music. (to write) 6. I __________ to the cinema two times last week. (to go) 7. When did Mr Black _______? (to die) 8. She _________ happy. (to feel) 9. He _________ his hair yesterday. (to cut) 10. Brenda __________ 20 books last year. (to read) 11. Our neighbour _________ his door open by accident. (to leave) 12. My boyfriend __________ back from the war last month. (to come) 13. Our horses __________ a lot yesterday. (to eat) 14. I __________ to lock the door.(to forget) 15. The queen __________ for her servant. (to ring)
I suggest that you take a look at this post if you need to review this topic ;-): irregular verbs.
I suggest that you read this list of words you may not know before watching the video.
VOCABULARY
To spread :tobecome larger or to affect a large area. Ex. The fire spread through the six-storey building via the single staircase which acted as a chimney.
To detect : to discover or ascertain the existence.
Ex. Irregularities were detected on seven of the websites.
To break out : if something dangerous or unpleasant breaks out, it suddenly starts. Ex. War broke out in 1914.
To transmit :to give or pass from one person to another; to cause (a virus, disease, etc.) to be given to.
Ex. Hepatitis C is a life-threatening viral disease transmitted primarily by blood contact.
To link : to make a connection between two or more things, ideas or people.
Paralysis : a condition in which you can’t move or feel al or part of your body.
Spike : a very high level.
Outbreak : a sudden increase, rise.
Mild : not strong in action or effect.
Vaccine : a substance injected into a person or animal to protect against a particular disease.
Credit: praise or special attention that is given to someone for doing something or for making something happen. Example: She got nocredit for solving the problem.
To threaten:to tell someone that you will kill or hurt them or cause problems if they do not do what you want. Example: They threatened the boy with a gun.
Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in the brackets:
So, have you ever _____________ (to wonder) who actually _____________ (to invent) the Internet?
Or _________ (to be) it thanks to a myriad of smart scientists ________________ (to work) on something they __________ (to know) _____________ (to be) useful but _______________________ (to realize – negative form) would be so big?
One popular but wrong story ________ (to be) that the internet ________________________ (to develop) by the USA so they ___________ (to have) a communication network that would survive a nuclear war.
With time-sharing, these behemoths could ______________ (to process) several tasks at a time, which _____________ (to mean) their power could be used by several scientists at once.
And, obviously, once you _________________ (to start) ___________________ (to connect) computers together you ________________ (to start) to wonder about what you ________________ (to need)to do to make communications between them easier.
The French also _______________ (to play) a role. They _________________________ (to work) on a scientific network called CYCLADES, but they ______________ (to have – negative form) a big budget, so they ________________(to decide) to work on direct connections between computers, as opposed to working with gateway computers.
The TCP/IP protocols _______________ (to form) the basic communication language of the internet, which _______________ (to label) the packets of data and ________________(to make) sure that even though some pieces of the same data ____________________ (to take) a different route, they all _________________ (to arrive) at their destination and can be reassembled.
Networks really ________________ (to begin) ________________________ (to communicate) with each other in 1975, so you could _______________ (to argue) that __________________ (to be) the beginning of the internet.
Most internet traffic in 1976 _____________ (to be) email, because academics ____________________ (to think) electronic post-it notes ______________ (to be) dead-core.
He _____________ (to do) so by __________________ (to invent) an interface _________________ (to use) HTTP, HTML, and URLs that _________________ (to make) internet browsers possible.
HOT-AIR BALLOON => alighter-than-aircraftinwhichairheatedbyaflameistrappedina largefabricbag. Hanging under the balloon, there is a basket (container) in which people can ride.
In this picture, you can notice that there are seven people in the basket and the flame is visible because they are flying:
Charles Dickens is one of my favorite writers. This quote is taken from his most autobiographical novel David Copperfield, published as a serial from 1849 to 1850.
If you want to read this book, you can find it here: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
It’s since a while that I am not uploading posts on grammar. In my opinion, for a beginner is not so easy to memorize irregular verbs, that’s why I decided to make mind maps and other resources on this topic. I hope you’ll find it useful.
You can download this mind map on Biggerplate (imx file). If you don’t have the possibility to open this kind of file, just download the image fromFree English Materials’ Facebook Page(Album: Mind maps)
Since there are a lot of irregular verbs I decided to make smaller mind maps for each single group. In this way, it will be easier for you to read them.
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