Solution Elementary unit 7

Use the past simple form of the verbs below.

My brother _______ a school chess competition last year.

I _______ a lot of gifts for my last birthday.

Last weekend we _______ to the cinema.

We ________ a book by Jane Austen in our English literature class last week.

   The head teacher ________ to my parents about my poor grades yesterday.

Colin ______ his maths homework late last night.

We only ________ one fish in the lake at the weekend.

Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs below. Use the affirmative or negative forms.

Mike and I 1_______ to London last weekend. We 2_______ much time so we hurried everywhere. We only 3_______ one museum and 4_______ some shopping. Mike 5_______ really kind and he 6_______ me a book that he bought in Charing Cross Road. 

Complete the sentence with the correct prepositions.

The good students always sat ___ the front of the bus.

We came back ____ Italy on Monday.

   Give those books ____ Tamara, please.

She goes to school _____ bicycle.

We spent the weekend ____ the north of Germany.

_________ an hour waiting in the queue, we left the shop.

The weather was awful: it rained ____ two weeks!

Complete the dialogue with the words below.

A Hi! 1__________ are things with you?

B Fine, thanks. And you?

A I had a difficult weekend!

B 2________? What happened?

A Just some family problems.

B What a 3_________! Well, I went cycling.

A Sounds 4________! 5________ did you go with?

B Three of my friends from the cycling club.

A 6________ was the weather like?

B A bit wet, actually! But we had a good time.