Answers past simple

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 4

• Let's read together. 
• One sentence each. 

• Now underline the irregular verbs in this story
• finished? Start with the next exercise (1A)

PAGE 51

Mrs Gibson was 82 years old. Her son owned an airline company. One day, she went to the airport to take a plane from Australia to the USA. With her she had a flight bag and a pet basket with her little pet dog called 'Spotty' inside. The flight that day was very crowded. Mrs Gibson sat down on a window seat and put her dog basket down on the seat next to her.

    A flight attendant said to her, 'I'm very sorry, madam, but this flight is fully booked. I'm afraid I have to take your dog and put it at the back of the plane for the journey.'

    The old lady didn't argue and gave the basket to the flight attendant.

After an hour in the air, the flight attendant checked on the little dog. She was horrified to see that the dog was dead at the bottom of the basket. She told the pilot and the pilot told the airport in New York. The company director was furious, because Mrs Gibson was the airline owner's mother. In the end, they decided to buy a different dog to replace the dead one. The flight attendant took a photo of the dog with her phone and sent it to New York 

to show them what it looked like. When the plane landed, Mrs Gibson got off the plane and the flight attendant brought her the basket with a new dog in it. 

Mrs Gibson looked very quickly into the basket and immediately said, 'That's not my dog. Where's my dog? What did you do with little Spotty?'

    The flight attendant told Mrs Gibson, 'Yes, of course it's your dog. It has the same spots, the same size - it's the same dog.'

    'No,' said Mrs Gibson, ' I know it isn't.'

    'But how do you know? You didn't look at it for very long.'

    'I know,' said Mrs Gibson, ' Because my dog was dead when I put him in the basket.'

• exercise 1A + 1B

Finished?

• exercise 1 + 2 page 53

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The old lady and her dog, pages 51+52

1. go, 2. had, 3. sat, 4. put, 5. said, 6. told, 7. took, 8. got, 9. brought, 10. did, 11. gave, 12. sent

1. brought

2. took

3. went

4. did

5. told

6. sent

7. gave

8. put

9. sat

10. went

11. said

12. got

1. worked
2. played
3. cried
4. wanted
5. swam
6. gave
7. stopped
8. taught 

PAGE 53: exercise 1

1. Did you like
2. Did Danny sing
3. Did they watch
4. Did you speak
5. Did Helen love

PAGE 53: exercise 2

1. Did Mike work
2. Did Britney dance
3. Did she sing
4. Did the bird kill
5. Did it eat 

PAGE 54: exercise 3

1. They didn't see
2. Peter didn't like
3. We didn't buy
4. I didn't drive
5. Susan didn't work 

PAGE 54: exercise 4

Pirate story, page 54

I. I was watching TV when the phone rang.

2. What were you doing when you hurt your leg?

3. We were playing football when it started to rain. 

4. I was having a bath when you called.

5. She was carrying too many books when she fell over. 

6. I was working in the library when David walked in. 

7. He was writing his email when the computer crashed .

8. Were you sleeping when I phoned you last night? 

Track records,  page 39

1. I've written

2. haven't watched

3. took part

4. 've found

5. broke

Healthy Living, page 40

1A

2A

3B

4A

5A

6B

7B

Next: Page 42

Answers blz 19

Exercise 1: 

1d, 2e, 3a, 4c, 5b

Exercise 2: 

1d, 2a, 3b, 4c, 5e

Exercise 2: Mum gave a little girl some cakes to take to Grandma. She set off. She walked through the forest. A wolf saw her and followed. He talked to her. He ran ahead and knocked on granny’s door. He ate Granny, then got into her bed. When the little girl knocked, he pretended to be granny and told her to come in. However, a woodcutter saw what was happening. He rushed in and cut off the wolf’s head. Then Granny popped out – she was OK. 

Exercise 1: 1d, 2e, 3a, 4c, 5b