4 Make a list of ten verbs and write the past forms. Check in the irregular verbs list in the Workbook. Then test your partner. What's the past of take'? Took. Pronunciation: Past tense -ed endings Workbook page 98
1. He (did not waste) time with foolish questions like why, when and where. He did as he was told. 2. Always a punctual woman, she (comes) downstairs as the front door (is being opened) for Charles. 3. Some kind of public demonstration (is being planned) to take place at the airport tonight. 4. The flight (had not been announced) yet. It (would not be announced) for another half-hour, at least. 5. The message, as Tanya (was dictating) it, (was being typed) by a girl clerk in New York. 6. She could tell by the inclination of his head that he (had been listening) intently to everything that (had been said). 7. It (is) an old house that (is divided) into flats. 8. Julia can’t know what (is being said) about her, and someone must tell her. 9. Each apartment was usually ( shared) by two or three girls. They (were known) as stewardess’ nests. 10. Inez (occupied) a chair in the room’s centre to which she (had been/was guided) on arrival. 11. He ( saw) that the doors of Trans America Flight Two (had not been closed) yet, and a few remaining passengers were still ( checking) in.
At 9 o'clock 07 minutes 12 April 1961 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (to the east of the Aral Sea) on a spaceship "Vostok" (weight - 4725 kg, orbital period -. 89.1 minutes, the maximum distance from the Earth - 302 km). After 108 min. Gagarin space flight safely landed on the left bank of the Volga River near the village of Smelovka Tarnovo district of Saratov region (20 km south-west from the city of Engels). His flight Gagarin 3 set new world records: altitude in space, duration of flight in space and carrying capacity of the spacecraft with a man on board. Gagarin's flight was marked as a historic event peoples of the world. Gagarin was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor of Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the 6th convocation.
2. Always a punctual woman, she (comes) downstairs as the front door (is being opened) for Charles.
3. Some kind of public demonstration (is being planned) to take place at the airport tonight.
4. The flight (had not been announced) yet. It (would not be announced) for another half-hour, at least.
5. The message, as Tanya (was dictating) it, (was being typed) by a girl clerk in New York.
6. She could tell by the inclination of his head that he (had been listening) intently to everything that (had been said).
7. It (is) an old house that (is divided) into flats.
8. Julia can’t know what (is being said) about her, and someone must tell her.
9. Each apartment was usually ( shared) by two or three girls. They (were known) as stewardess’ nests.
10. Inez (occupied) a chair in the room’s centre to which she (had been/was guided) on arrival.
11. He ( saw) that the doors of Trans America Flight Two (had not been closed) yet, and a few remaining passengers were still ( checking) in.