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Grammar reference and practice 8.1

8.1 ■ Past simple: affirmative Affirmative I You He / She / It    We They lived     20,000 years ago. Spelling rules ■ Most regular verbs: add  -ed ■ Regular verbs ending in  -e : add  -d ■ Short regular verbs ending in consonant + vowel + consonant: double final consonant and add  -ed ■ Regular verbs ending consonant +  -y : change  -y  to  -ied Use We use the past simple for: ■ a completed past action or a past state. We often use it with expressions that show when things happened, such as  yesterday, … ago, when I was a child, in April / in 2008, last night / last week / last month / last year,  etc. The girls played football with their friends yesterday. We travelled from Kazakhstan to Kenya last year. ■ a past habit, often with an adverb of frequency or a time expression, such as  every week / every Monday / every summer / every year. We usually walked to the sports centre after school. They phoned thei...
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Literature insight 4: The Withered Arm – Thomas Hardy

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. BEFORE YOU READ 1 Read about Thomas Hardy. Hardy set his novels in Wessex. Is Wessex a real place name? Where is it? Wessex is a  fictional  place name. It's in  the south-western part of England . 2 Read the background to the story. Who does Farmer Lodge bring home one day? He brings  his new wife  home. About the author Thomas Hardy Born:  1840 near Dorchester, England Died:  1928 Dorchester Important works:  Far from the Madding Crowd  (1874),  The Mayor of Casterbridge  (1886),  Tess of the d'Urbervilles  (1891),  Jude the Obscure  (1895) Did you know?  As a child Thomas Hardy loved school, and he studied many subjects including Latin and Greek. In 1856, when he left school, he worked for a local architect and church restorer. In 1862, he studied architecture in London, but returned home two years later. He wrote poems and stories...
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Exercise 4: Adverbs of manner

Adverbs of manner 4 Complete the text with the correct adverbs.  MOVE easily well badly fast slowly hard My sister loves sport and she can run very  . She's also good at team sports – she plays football very  . She likes music but she's not very good at it – she sings really  ! I don't like sport. I run very   – I never win races. But I work very   at school, and my exam results are usually good. I learn new languages very   – it's not difficult for me – and I can speak Spanish, French and German. Answers
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