Lesson 1

December 10-14

Lesson 1

Project »Strangest New Year’s traditions»

To read »The gift of the Magi»

Improve Your Grammar

1

         go → went → gone

1. say → said → said
2.  do → did → done
3.  come → came → come
4.  have → had → had
5.  stand → stood → stood
6.  make → made → made
7.  buy → bought → bought
8.  sit → sat → sat
9.  swim → swam → swum
10.  speak → spoke → spoken
11.  see → saw → seen
12.  write → wrote → written
13.  sing → sang → sung
14.  run → ran → run

2

1. fly → flew → flown
2. hold → held → held
3. steal → stole → stolen
4. sink → sank → sunk
5. hide → hid → hidden
6. rise → rose → risen
7. spring → sprang → sprung
8. let → let → let
9. send → sent → sent
10.  tear → tore → torn
11. grow → grew → grown
12. sweep → swept → swept
13. lend → lent → lent
14. become → became → become
15. swear → swore → sworn

3

Infinitive	Simple Past	Past Participle
sink	sank	sunk
drive	drove	driven
strike	struck	struck
hide	hid	hidden
make	made	made
split	split	split
seek	sought	sought
fly	flew	flown
tread	trod	trod
thrive	throve	thrived

4

1. Do you drink mineral water?
2.  Do Sarah and Linda feed their pets?
3. Does your teacher check your homework?
4.  Do they live in the old house?
5.  Does the cat sit on the wall in the mornings?
6.  Does Nina play computer games?
7.  Do your parents watch TV in the afternoon?
8. Does your grandmother answer the phone?
9. Does Andy do the shopping?
10. Do Garry and Ken have a cup of tea in the afternoon?

5

1. Did you close the door?
2.  Did Claire finish the housework?
3.  Did he have a bath yesterday?
4. Did the boy jump into the lake?
5.  Did Ronald visit the Tower of London?
6.  Did Peggy and Olivia look after the baby?
7.  Did she make the invitation cards herself?
8. Did the girl drop the ketchup bottle?
9.  Did Tim buy the green T-shirt last Monday?
10.  Did they practise karate this morning?