Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Vocabulary and grammar: The first Thanksgiving

VOpposite adjectives
1Match the opposite adjectives. 
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  • dangerous
  • ill
  • happy
  • hard-working
  • rich

  • 1well ≠  

  • 2poor ≠  

  • 3sad ≠  

  • 4lazy ≠  

  • 5safe ≠  

 





VOpposite adjectives
2Choose the correct adjectives to complete the sentences. 

  • 1It's  to drive when you are tired.

  • 2Some families are very . They haven't got much money and the children have to work.

  • 3I am usually  when I'm with my friends, because we have a lot of fun.

  • 4Teachers are , because they have to prepare lessons, mark homework and teach.

  • 5I don't feel very , so I'm going to bed.

3  Write sentences with the adjectives in brackets.

  • My brother is richer than me. (rich)
  •  ... (lazy)
  •  ... (ill)
  •  ... (safe)
  •  ... (sad)

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Past simple: be
4Complete the conversation with was, were, wasn't or weren't. 

Amy1

 

you at home last night?

JimNo, I 2.

 

My brother and I 3

 

at the cinema. Why?

AmyThere was a great programme about the Titanic on TV. Countess Lucy Noël Martha 4

 

a very rich woman with a lot of money. The man, Thomas William Jones, was the opposite to her. He 5

 

rich at all, but quite poor. He 6

 

a worker on the ship. But they 7

 

both in the same lifeboat. Lucy and Thomas 8 very different, but for the rest of their lives, they 9

 

friends.

JimIt sounds really interesting.

AmyYes, it 10.


Past simple: can
5Study the factfile. Are the sentences True or False? Correct the false ones. 
You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

Transatlantic crossings!

1838: Great Western, one of the world's first steamships, crosses the Atlantic. It can carry 200 people.

1901: Marconi sends the first radio signal across the Atlantic

1926: Telephone engineers make a telephone call between the UK and the USA.

1939: One of the first passenger aeroplanes flies from the USA to Europe.

1962: A satellite sends the first television image from the USA to Europe.

  • 1In 1930, Europeans could make telephone calls to the USA.

     

  • 2In 1900, people couldn't travel across the Atlantic by ship.

     

  • 3Before 1901, people couldn't send radio signals across the Atlantic.

     

  • 4People couldn't fly to the USA before the 1930s.

     

  • 5After 1962, Europeans could watch TV images from the USA.

     

  • 6People could communicate quickly across the Atlantic before 1900.

     


Past simple: can
6Choose the correct words to complete the text. 

Schools 1

 

very different in the 19th century to today. Of course, they 2

 

full of computers like they are today. Probably the most important 'gadget' for a 19th century school child 3

 

a slate – a blackboard the children 4

 

write on.

It 5

 

impossible for some children to go to school. Why? Money. Poor families 6

 

send their children to school. Instead these poor children 7

 

workers in factories, on farms or in rich people's houses.

But, it 8

 

all bad for poor children. Some of them 9

 

go to 'Dame schools'. These 10

 

schools in people's houses. There was usually one teacher, often a woman. It 11

 

easy for the teacher – her house 12

 

full of noisy children! She 13

 

teach them a lot of things, maybe only the alphabet and some numbers.

Life 14

 

different for rich children. Some children 15

 

at boarding schools. Others 16 have their lessons at home with a tutor.

7  Think back to 2010. What could you do, or not do? Use the ideas below or your own ideas. Speak for no longer than one minute.

  • dance
  • play
  • read
  • ride a bike
  • swim
  • write

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