In the right place but at the wrong time
GRAMMAR: Past simple regular and irregular
| I You He She It We They | + stayed in a hotel. went on holiday. | - didn’t stayin a hotel. didn’t goon holiday. | Infinitive | Past | |
| Work stay like study stop | worked stayed liked(just add d if verb finished in e) studied(y>i after a constant) stopped(if verb finishes in consonant-vowel-consonant, double the final consonant) | ||||
| Didyou stayin a hotel? Yes, I did. Didyou goon holiday? No, I didn’t. | |||||
| Use the past simple to talk about finished actions in the past. -The past simple is the same for all persons. -Use the infinitive after Did…? and didn’t for negatives an questions. -To make the past simple + of regular verbs add –ed. Remember the spelling rules. -Many common verbs are irregular in + past simple, for example go>went. |
Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple.
Two summers ago we had a holiday in Scotland. We _________ (drive) there from London, but our car ________ (break) down on the motorway and we _______ (spend) the first night in Birmingham. When we ______(get) to Edinburgh we ____________ (not can) find a good hotel- they _________(be) at full. We __________(not know) what to do but in the end we _______________(find) a bed and breakfast and we ___________(stay) there for the week. We _____________(see) the castle, _________(go) to the Arts Festival, and we____(buy) a lot of souvenirs. We_____(want) to go to Loch Ness but we (not have) much time and it____(be) quite far away. The weather____(be) good, but it____(start) raining the day we____(leave).
Rewrite the sentences in the negative.
a. They collected postcards. _______________________
b. You jumped high._____________________________
c. Albert played squash. ___________________________
d. The teacher tested our English. ___________________
e. Fiona visited her grandma. _______________________
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In the right place but at the wrong time
Last week we asked you to tell us about a holiday when the destination was perfect but, for some reason, the time wasn’t right … here are some of your replies .
Tim,20, student from Manchester. When I was a teenager I went a holiday with my parents to Brittany in France. My parents rented a lovely house on the beach, and weather was great .But I was 17, and I didn’t want to be want holiday with my mum and my dad my little brother. I wanted to be with my friends. We went to the beach every day sunbathed and we went to a fantastic seafood restaurant for my birthday. but I was miserable and I hated every minute of it. I didn’t smile once in two weeks. What really made me furious was that my parents let my older sister, who was 19, go to Spain with her friends
Gabriela ,28 , marketing manager from Rome. I am from Rome and the summer here is really hot. So last year my husband and I decided to go to Sweden , to escape from the heat. We booked a 10-day holiday in Stockholm , where the temperature in the summer is normally about 20degrees. But when we got to Stockholm there was a heatwave and it was 35 degrees every day .It was awful because there was no air-conditioning anywhere we couldn’t sleep at night – it was boiling in the hotel , and in the shops and museums too. We didn’t want to go shopping –we were too hot .We just sat in cafes and argued all day .We didn’t need to go to Sweden to do that!
Kelly.26, TV journalist from Belfast. Three years ago I broke up with my boyfriend and I decided to go on holiday on my own to the Seychelles .My travel agent told me that it was a wonderful place .But he didn’t tell me that it was also a very popular place for people on their honeymoon .Everywhere I looked I saw couples holding hands and looking romantically into each others eyes !The travel agent also said it was always sunny there – but the weather was terrible – it was cloudy and very windy. To pass the time I decided to do a diving course (one of my lifetime ambitions ) .But it was a complete disaster because the first time I went under the water I had a panic attack . I couldn’t escape from the Island so I spent an incredibly boring (and expensive)two weeks in paradise.
