Unit 6: Great achievers
Past simple
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- 1 Nice to meet you!
- 2 What to wear
- 3 Like this, like that
- 4 The daily grind
- 5 Christmas every day
- 6 Great achievers
- 7 The Titanic
- 8 Travel
- 9 The big wedding
- 10 Sunny's job hunt
- 11 The bucket list
- 12 Moving and migration
- 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14 New Year, New Project
- 15 From Handel to Hendrix
- 16 What's the weather like?
- 17 The Digital Revolution
- 18 A detective story
- 19 A place to live
- 20 The Cult of Celebrity
- 21 Welcome to your new job
- 22 Beyond the planets
- 23 Great expectations!
- 24 Eco-tourism
- 25 Moving house
- 26 It must be love
- 27 Job hunting success... and failure
- 28 Speeding into the future
- 29 Lost arts
- 30 Tales of survival
Session 3
Does learning English help your career? Meet someone who thinks it does and hear how she talks about her life in past simple tense. Then, learn how to pronounce past simple verbs correctly.
Activity 3
More pronunciation practice
We've seen Finn explaining how to say the ed ending words, now listen to Finn saying these words again, and practise saying them with him.
ነቲ ድምጺ ስምዕዎ
Hello Finn here – with some more pronunciation practice…
The /id/ sound is the simple past ending for verbs that end in /t/ or /d/ sounds:
decided
waited
wanted
competed
started
restarted
The /t/ sound is the simple past ending for verbs that end in /p/, /k/, /sh/ or /ch/ sounds:
stopped
finished
asked
liked
walked
eavesdropped
The /d/ sound is the simple past ending for most other verbs, such as:
lived
called
loved
trained
scored
stayed
retired
climbed
achieved
Now you try practising them.
Bye.
End of Session 3
That’s all for this session. We hope you enjoyed it, and we hope you’re feeling more confident about using the past simple tense in conversation. For more information about the past simple tense, go to the Grammar Reference area.
In the next session we'll hear about heroes from our childhood - and meet another great achiever.
Session Vocabulary
/Id/ For verbs that end in /t/ or /d/ sounds
decided
waited
wanted
competed
started
restarted
/t/ For verbs that end in /p/, /k/, /sh/ or /ch/ sounds
stopped
finished
asked
finished
looked
liked
walked
eavesdropped
/d/ For most other verbs
lived
called
loved
trained
scored
stayed
retired
climbed
achieved