WORLD FAMOUS Unit 7
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Countries and nationalities Austria Belarus Brazil Britain China Croatia the Czech Republic Estonia France Germany Hungary Austrian Belarusian Brazilian British Chinese Croatian Czech Estonian French German Hungarian Countries Nationalities
Countries and nationalities Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Ukraine the USA Italian Japanes Latvian Lithuanian Polish Romanian Russian Slovakian Slovenian Spanish Ukrainian American Countries Nationalities
Flags of the countries What s the capital of Germany? What colour of its flag?
Past Simple Regular verbs walk walked decide decided study studied play played chat chatted Irregular verbs go went see saw have had read read learn learnt/ learned
Past Simple Negative Interrogative + Last week I went to the cinema. - Last week I didn t go to the cinema.? Did you go to the cinema last week? In negative sentences and questions (for both regular and irregular verbs) we use: did/ didn t + base form
Great Hungarian Inventor Tivadar Puskás Tivadar Puskás (1844-1893) was born in Budapest. He was a Hungarian inventor, telephone pioneer, and inventor of the telephone exchange. He was also the founder of Telefon Hírmondó. Puskás was working on his idea for a telegraph exchange when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. He decided to get in touch with the American inventor Thomas Edison. Edison said "Tivadar Puskas was the first person to suggest the idea of a telephone exchange". Puskás's idea finally became a reality in 1877 in Boston. In 1879 Puskás set up a telephone exchange in Paris. In Paris he was greatly helped by his younger brother Ferenc Puskás who later established the first telephone exchange in Pest. In 1887 Tivadar Puskás introduced the multiplex switchboard, which was a revolutionary step in the development of telephone exchanges. His next invention was the "Telephone News Service" that he introduced in Pest, which announced news and "broadcast programmes and was in many ways the forerunner of the radio and the Internet. According to a contemporary scientific journal, at most 50 people could listen to Edison's telephone at the same time, if one more person was connected, nobody could hear anything. With Puskás's apparatus, by contrast, half a million people could clearly hear the programme.
Time expressions the day before yesterday last night/ week/ year/ summer/ month yesterday afternoon/ evening three days/ weeks/ years/ months ago In 2000
Talking about the weekend
Writing an e-mail message Hi Tom I hope you re well. How was your weekend? My weekend was great. On Saturday I went into town and met my friends. We went to the cinema. The film was a very good comedy so we laughed a lot. On Sunday I visited my parents and sisters. We had a barbecue together. The weather was wonderful so we had a great time in the garden. In the evening I stayed at home and I read a very exciting book. Speak to you soon. Love Lili Begin with Hi/Dear Useful phrases: Great to hear from you. I hope you re well. How was your weekend? (Ann) sends his love. Describe what you did on Saturday Describe what you did on Sunday Useful phrases: Say hi to (Ann). Speak to you soon. Best wishes/love
Test I. Complete the sentences with the correct words. A person from Hungary is. A person from Japan is. A person from Poland is. A person from Italy is. A person from France is. A person from Britain is. A person from Spain is. A person from Sweden is.
II. Complete the sentences with the correct past form of the verbs in brackets. 1. (you write) a message to Chris last night? 2. I (buy) the suit because it was very expensive. 3. (Susan meet) Tina yesterday evening? She wanted to speak to her. 4. We (go) to the cinema last Friday. 5. Mum (cook) last night. We ate out. 6. I don t want lunch today because I (have) a big breakfast this morning. 7. (you see) the exhibition last Friday? 8. He (not come) to the meeting.
III. Complete the sentences with the correct past form of the verbs: do win teach go read speak get 1. Yesterday evening I an interesting book about famous inventors. 2. We to Madrid for a week last summer. 3. Miss Parker us about some famous English writers the day before yesterday. 4. My teacher to me about my schoolwork two days ago. 5. I my homework before dinner. 6. My sister a job in an office yesterday. 7. Our team the basketball competition last Saturday.
IV. Complete the text with the correct words. My grandmother was (1) in 1945. She (2) as a teacher when she was 22 and she met my grandfather when she was 24. They got (3) two years later. My grandmother taught all her life until she (4) when she was 65. Sadly, she (5) in 2001.
V. Write an e-mail to a friend about your last week. Include the following information: 1. what you did at school 2. what you did after school and in the evenings