Рубрика: English

Passive sentences in the Simple Past – Exercise

YOUR RESULTS

You answered 10 tasks out of 10 correctly. That is 100%.

1. She bought four apples.
   Four apples were bought by her.
2. We won the match.
   The match was won by us.
3. The man stole the blue car.
   The blue car was stolen.
4. The police arrested the thieves.
   The thieves were arrested.
5. Jack swam the 200 metres.
   The 200 metres were swum.
6. The dog bit the old lady.
   The old lady was bitten.
7. Tom and Max ate five hamburgers.
   Five hamburgers were eaten.
8. Oliver taught the children.
   The children were taught by Oliver.
9. Victoria rode the brown horse.
   The brown horse was ridden.
10. Grandmother told good stories.
    Good stories were told by Grandmother.

Ex. 1

Here’s a little song I wrote
You might want to sing ti note for note
Don’t worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make ti double
Don’t worry, be happy
Don’t worry, be happy now
Don’t worry, be happy (repeat)
Ain’t got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don’t worry, be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don’t worry, be happy
(Look at me, I’m happy)
Don’t worry, be happy
(I give you my phone number, when you worry, call me, Imake you happy)
Don’t worry, be happy
Ain’t got no cash, ain’t got no style
Ain’t got no girl to make you smile
But don’t worry, be happy
‘Cause when you worry, your face will frown
And that wil bring everybody down
So don’t worry, be happy
Don’t worry, be happy now
Don’t worry, be happy (repeat)

Coca cola

1. Coca-Cola was invented by Atlanta-based pharmacist John S. Pemberton in 1886. But the name was conjured up by his bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, who was also a dab hand with a pen. He created the unique flowing script that became the Coca-Cola logo that is still used today.

Watches

2. The history of watches began in 16th century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century. The watch which developed from the 16th century to the mid 20th century was a mechanical device, powered by winding a mainspring which turned gears and then moved the hands, and kept time with a rotating balance wheel.

Chips

3. The earliest known recipe for something similar to today’s potato chips is in the English cook William Kitchiner’s book The Cook’s Oracle, first published in 1817, which was a bestseller in the United Kingdom.Early recipes for potato chips in the United States are found in Mary Randolph’s Virginia House-Wife (1824), and in N.K.M. Lee’s Cook’s Own Book (1832), both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.

Bicycle

4. The “dandy horse”, also called Draisienne or Laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais. It is regarded as the modern bicycle’s forerunner; Drais introduced it to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817 and in Paris in 1818. Its rider sat astride a wooden frame supported by two in-line wheels and pushed the vehicle along with his or her feet while steering the front wheel.

Instagram

5. Instagram began development in San Francisco, when Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger chose to focus their multi-featured HTML5 check-in project, Burbn, on mobile photography. As Krieger reasoned, Burbn became too similar to Foursquare, and both realized that it had gone too far. Burbn was then pivoted to become more focused on photo-sharing.The word Instagram is a portmanteau of instant camera and telegram.

Starbucks

6. The first Starbucks was opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 31, 1971, by three partners who met while they were students at the University of San Francisco:English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet after he taught them his style of roasting beans.Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with “st” were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with “st,” and eventually landed on “Starbo,” a mining town in the Cascade Range. From there, the group remembered “Starbuck,” the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick.Bowker said, “Moby-Dick didn’t have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense.

1)	What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘mother’? When I hear the word mother I describe like strong women or kind of supergirl
(2)	Can you describe your mother in one word? Why that word Hero
(3)	What are the biggest differences between mothers and fathers? Mothers are beautiful, they cleaning house, cooking good every day for us, But fathers are handsome, hard work people, always protect you on your hard situations.
(4)	Do you always buy your mother a present on Mother’s Day? Yes I bought a big bucket of flowers and toaster on Mother’s Day.
(5)	What’s the best piece of advice your mother has given you? Be stronger and smarter.
(6)	In what ways do you take after your mother? when she got ill I went the nearest pharmacy and buy some pills. After 2 or 3 days mother got well.
(7)	What is your mother’s biggest fault?
(8)	Is your mother more like a mother or a best friend? No becacouse she always ask me to tell my life secrets and I did not want to tell her becase she share this thinks to the other people.
(9)	What do/did your mother and you argue about? When I forgot to do something she arguing with me.
(10)	What do you think of Mother’s Day? Is it necessary? Of course yes because our mother do for us all what we want cook,buying a dress, shoes and other things. That’s why mothers day is necessary.

Talk 1

Talk 2

Talk 3

Comparative and superlative digre

1. My house is bigger  than yours.
2. This flower is more beautiful than that one.
3. This is the most interesting  book I have ever read.
4. Non-smokers usually live longer than smokers.
5. Which is the most dangerous  animal in the world?
6. A holiday by the sea is better  than a holiday in the mountains.
7. It is strange but often a coke is more expensive than a beer.
8. Who is the richest  woman on earth?
9. The weather this summer is even worse than last summer.
10. He was the more clever  thief of all.

2. Her name’s Akemi. She’s 25 years old and she comes from Tokyo in Japan. At the moment she’s living in Cambridge, where she’s a student of English at a language school. Her interests are theatre, cinema and classical music, especially opera. In Japan she works in a large department selling cosmetics. When she goes home she hopes to get a job using my English, maybe in a travel agency. Her ambition is to travel all over Europe and learn another European language.

1) Be happy

2) begin a New Year

3) break a heart

4) bring a flowers

5) build a home

6) buy a products

7) come here

8) do the exercises

9) draw a smile

10) drink a water

4. Type the plurals in the boxes for the words below.

1. man-men
2. child-children
3. tooth-teeth
4. woman-women
5. fish-fish
6. foot-feet
7. person-persons
8. sheep-sheep
9. mouse-mice

5.

Fill in the gap with the correct preposition from the list.  at      by      for      in      of      on      to      with   

1. We are related by marriage . He is my wife’s brother.
2. I didn’t quite like him at first, but then we got along together.
3. I won’t eat any chocolate because I’m in  a diet.
4. My daughter is addicted to cigarettes She is a heavy smoker.
5. You should be ashamed of yourself for treating her like that.
6. She was grateful to him for the help he gave her.
7. He failed his driving test for a few times, however,  the end, he passed.
8. I’m afraid the manager is not here. He is in France on  business this week.
9. There was a large sign that said the house was for  sale.
10. They travelled to Greece by air.