Unit 5
9 Complete these sentences with the correct forms of the verbs. Each sentence has one verb in the simple past and one verb in the past perfect. 1 He _______ (cook) dinner before I _______ (arrive). 2 Alicia _______ (cycle) a long way before she _______ (get) tired. The simple past and the past perfect are often used in the same sentence. When two actions happen in the past, we put the one which happened first in the past perfect tense: past perfect past simple When everyone had left , Carl went home.
3 Darkness _______ (fall) before the bus _______ (come). 4 Before he _______ (go) out he _______ (tidy) his room. 5 When Mum _______ (finish) her drink she _______ (wash) the glass. 6 Grandad _______ (buy) a bicycle after his car _______ (break) down. Word work: homophones Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings: Clive pinned his sign on a board . Clive was bored .
Homophones you should learn aloud allowed blue blew brake break cent
sent, scent
flour hole
flower whole
hymn him mail
male knew
new
our hour passed past peace piece prey pray sale sail see sea scene seen so sew tale tail their through threw week weak weight wait write right
1 Choose the correct word from the list and say what part of speech it is. Use a dictionary to help you.
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Example: Use this to stop a car or a bicycle: brake (verb)
there, they’re
1 It is easy to do this to glass: ____ (____) 2 Possessive pronoun: ____ (____) 3 Songs we sing in church: ____ (____) 4 No noise or conflict: ____ (____) 5 A small part: ____ (____) 6 Creatures hunted for food: ____ (____)
7 To speak to God: ____ (____) 8 Opposite of old: ____ (____) 9 Past tense of know: ____ (____)
• Word work, extension: Ask students to use each of these words in a sentence of their own: their, there, they’re, sale, sail, write, right.
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