EXPLORERS
2.2
19
3
b
Match the phrasal verbs in Exercise 3a with their
meanings below.
1
start/begin a journey
2
make a short visit to a place while you are going
somewhere else
3
return
4
explore
5
continue
6
rise into the air
7
go to the desk at an airport or hotel
8
stop working
3
c
Complete the text with the phrasal verbs in the
correct form.
We
1
very early, before dawn, and drove south.
We
2
at a service station for petrol and a coffee.
After this we
3
driving for another three hours.
There were a lot of delays and hold-ups. We finally
arrived at the aircraft museum at 2 p.m., and
4
the
main sights. We didn’t
5
until midnight. It was a
very tiring day.
GRAMMAR
PAST SIMPLE
4
Underline all the past simple verbs in the three
texts. Which are regular and which are irregular?
5
Which two statements about the past simple are
not true?
1
We use the past simple for finished actions that are
in the past.
2
We use the past simple with the following time
expressions:
never, all my life, ever, yet
.
3
We often say the exact time of the action.
4
We use time expressions like:
yesterday
,
last week
,
in 1999
,
ago
,
when I was young
.
5
We use
did/didn’t
+ the infinitive in questions and
negatives.
6
We normally use
did
and
didn’t
with the verb
be
.
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PRONUNCIATION
6
a
2.2
-ed
endings
Listen to the sentences
containing these verbs. Do the verbs end in the sounds
/d/
,
/t/
or
/ɪd/
?
travelled visited stopped included produced
worked lifted
6
b
Listen again and practise saying the words.
7
Complete the facts below with the past simple of
the verbs in the box.
photograph lead hit study pilot die fly (x2)
sail bring explore find discover not return
1
Louise Boyd (1887–1972)
and
the
Arctic Ocean. She also
over the North Pole.
2
Ferdinand Magellan
the first expedition that
around the Earth, between 1519 and 1522.
3
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618)
potatoes
from America to Europe.
4
When
Ranulph Fiennes
the legendary
Lost City of Ubor in the desert of Oman?
5
Vasco da Gama
in India in 1524. He
an ocean route from Portugal to the East.
6
Alan Shepard
America’s first manned space
mission. He briefly
into space on 5 May 1961.
In a later mission he
golf balls on the Moon.
7
Ibn Battuta
to his home town,
Tangier, for many years.
8
When he was young, Ibn Battuta
Islamic laws.
SPEAKING
8
Write down the dates or years of six important
events in your past. Give your list to a partner. Ask each
other questions to find out what the dates represent.
2008
Did you start primary school then?
V
alentina Tereshkova parachuted out of over 125
aircraft before she jumped out of the spacecraft
Vostok 6. This unusual hobby led to her selection
for cosmonaut training and her achievement of becoming
the first woman in space.
Tereshkova was born on 6 March 1937, in western Russia.
As a teenager she worked in a textile plant and took up
parachuting in her spare time.
When Tereshkova was selected for the Soviet space
programme in 1962 because of her parachuting skills, she
became the first recruit without experience as a test pilot.
Tereshkova was chosen to be the pilot of the Vostok 6
mission. The pilots called her
Chaika
, Russian for ‘seagull’.
The spacecraft lifted off from Tyuratam Launch Centre
on 16 June 1963. It re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere
on 19 June and Tereshkova parachuted to the ground,
landing near Kazakhstan in central Asia. On 3 November
1963, Tereshkova married another cosmonaut. They had a
daughter, Elena – the first child born to parents who both
went into space.
space pioneer
Valentina Tereshkova
