Past Simple

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 645.

Past tenses

GRAMMAR

EX.15 Web research task

EX.14 Complete the conversation with words or phrases from the box.

Alf: This is serious. The club now owes the bank £250,000. There's (1)………here. No money means no football club!

Brian:£250,000! How on earth can we (2)………of that sort?

Charlie:Easy! Rob a bank or (3)………

Alf:Our chances of winning the lottery are one in three million - totally (4)………

Charlie:How about (5)………? I Like them because you know straight away if you've won or not.

Brian:I've got an idea .......... maybe there are some(6)……….that help sports clubs.

Alf: We're hardly a priority, are we? But maybe we could find a local business to sponsor.

Brian:Wait a second! Jason ... Jason Sewell.

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Charlie:From school?

Brian:Yeah. He won a lottery (7)……….worth £7 million ten years ago. He's a billionaire now and a big football fan.

Charlie:Terrific! He's our man.

Surf the Net and find stories of people who won a lottery somewhere in the world. Make notes about four or five people`s lives after winning – did their lives change?

We use the past simple:

• for an action which happened at a definite time in the past. The time is stated, already known or implied.

Sheila arrivedin Tokyo last week.

• for actions which happened immediately one after the other in the past.

He gotout of bed, wentto the kitchen and turned onthe coffee machine.

• for past habits or states which are now finished. In such cases we can also use the expression used to.

I lived/used to live in France five years ago.

Time expressions we use with the past simple: