| /ıd/
| /t/
| /d/
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| after /t/, /d/
| after /k/, /s/, /ʃ/, /p/, /ʧ/
| after other sounds
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| landed
...
| looked
...
| smiled
...
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4.Identify the tenses in bold, then match them with the correct description.
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1.It was raining and the wind was blowing.
2.He was exhausted because he had been walking all day.
3.There was no juice left because Jack had drunk it all.
4.She had finished by 8 o’clock.
5.The storm broke out after we had been driving for four hours.
6.He got into the plane, started the engine and flew off into the clouds.
7.The party had already started by the time I arrived.
8.Elvis Presley died in 1977.
9.I was cycling to work when I fell off the bike.
10.My grandfather met Winston Churchill.
11.I was sleeping at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
12.She had been trying to find a job in Hollywood for years.
| a. past equivalent of the Present Perfect
b. action in the middle of happening at a started past time
c. past actions which happened one after the other
d. action which is not connected with the present and happened at a definite past time not mentioned
e. background description to events in the story
f. action continuing over a period up to a specific time in the past
g. past equivalent of the Present Perfect Continuous
h. past action which occurred before another action
i. past action in progress interrupted by another
j. past action which occurred before a stated time in the past
k. event which happened at a stated past time
l. past action of certain duration which had visible results in the past
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5.Complete the text about James Dean. Use Past Simple.
| American actor James Dean was born in 1931. Dean’s mother ____ when Dean was only 8 years old and he ____ on his aunt and uncle’s farm. He ____ acting for two years. Then he ____ a career in films and the theatre. He also ____ in some TV commercials, including one for Pepsi-Cola. In 1954, he ____ in a play called The Immoralist in New York theatre. Bosses from a Hollywood studio ____ the play. They ____ Dean and ____ him a film contract. Dean ____ in three films: East of Eden (1955), Rebel without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During his short career, he ____ extremely popular with teenagers. His death in a car crash in 1955 ____ great sadness in young people all over the world.
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die
grow up
study
start
appear
act
see
like, offer
star
become
cause
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6. Complete the conversation. Use these verbs:
