Claire went to York with her family yesterday. They had a nice day visiting various sights, including York Minster and the medieval city walls. After lunch and a walk along some shops, they left York at 6pm. On the way back, Claire fell asleep because she was tired from the full day of activities. Overall, it was a wonderful day trip to York.

1. London diaries
4.1 Can you talk about what you did?
Unit4
1 Read the text and write the verbs in 2 Write true (T) or false (F).
the past simple. Then put the pictures Correct the false ones.
in the right order. a Claire went to York last week.
______________________________________
F Claire went to York yesterday.
b The weather was good.
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c Claire made some sandwiches.
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d They visited the Minster.
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e They left York at half past eight.
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3 Unscramble the words in the dialogue.
a TOM: were / yesterday / Where / you / ?
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Where were you yesterday?
b JAKE: Madame / was / at / Tussauds / I / .
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c T: kind of / what / models / there / were / ?
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d J: were / lots of / singers / there /
famous / actors / and / .
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e T: in / was / Beckham / museum / the / ?
_________________________________
Yesterday, I (a) ________ (get up) really early
got up J: Yes, he was.
because we were going to York. The weather
f T: you / were / the dungeon / in / ?
(b) ________ (be) nice — cold but sunny. First,
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I (c) ________ (buy) some food at the
supermarket. My mum (d) ________ (make) g J: Yes, I was. / scary / was / the dungeon
some ham and cheese sandwiches for / but / liked / I / it / .
everybody, and I also (e) ________ (take) a few _________________________________
drinks. On the coach, we (f) ________ (sing)
silly songs and (g) ________ (laugh) all the
time until we got there. Then, we h) ________
(visit) York Minster and the City Walls.
4 Classify the verbs in four columns.
The stained-glass windows in the Minster are invite stop rob dance prefer play
spectacular. And the medieval walls are just start talk order arrive tidy hate
like the ones you imagine in fairy tales. After study marry shop chat cry
that, we (i) ________ (have) lunch near the
a b c d
Guildhall and (j) ________ (walk) along some
+ -d + -ed + -ied + consonant
narrow streets full of shops. We (k) ________ + -ed
(leave) York at six o’clock. On the way back, _______
invited _______
talked _______
studied _______
stopped
I (l) ________ (fall) asleep because I _______ _______ _______ _______
(m) ________ (be) really tired. _______ _______ _______ _______
It (n) ________ (be) a wonderful day. _______ _______ _______ _______
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2. London diaries
4.2 Vocabulary
Unit4
1 Write the correct past tenses. 4 Find the past tense of each of the
a invite invited thirteen irregular verbs.
b skip
a get got h speak
c order
b buy i see
d tidy
c sing j fall
e start
d make k take
f study
e light l have
g dance
f sleep m leave
h chat
g go
2 Write the past tense of these verbs G O T R S A N G E D
in the correct column. P T O N J O M K H Y
work light leave go make W B O U G H T S E S
speak love like show fall H E K Q V A C B M L
regular irregular F Z T M A D E O X E
____________
worked ____________ E P L D E C B N H P
____________ ____________ L E F T R N I L I T
____________ ____________ L I L T W E N T B F
____________ ____________
____________ ____________ W S X E D C R F V T
S A W G B S P O K E
3 Match the pictures to the words.
5 Complete the sentences with the
appropriate verb in the past tense.
invite walk order show buy dance
1 2
3 4
a We __________ to the music all night.
danced
b We __________ a hamburger and chips.
c We __________ to school, because we
5 6 missed the bus.
d The guide __________ us the paintings
a potatoes 3 d fire in the exhibition.
b diary e chimney e We __________ some food at the market.
c prisoners f coal f She __________ him to her birthday party.
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3. London diaries
4.3 Can you talk about life 150 years ago?
Unit4
1 Write true answers to these questions. 3 Are these verbs regular (R)
a Were you at home all day yesterday? or irregular (I)?
_______________________________________
No, I wasn't./Yes, I was. Write them in the past.
b Were you at school yesterday? a invite R _______ n take
invited _______
_______________________________________ b start _______ o hate _______
c Were you late for your classes this morning? c get _______ p sing _______
_______________________________________ d have _______ q want _______
d Was it warm yesterday? e visit _______ r swim _______
_______________________________________ f appear _______ s laugh _______
e Was your best friend ill last week? g go _______ t leave _______
_______________________________________ h speak _______ u buy _______
i talk _______ v dance _______
j see _______ w sleep _______
2 This is what Carla did and didn’t do k need
l light
_______ x do
_______ y order
_______
_______
yesterday. m fall _______ z make _______
4 Match the events with the dates.
1789 1913 1938 1945 1879 1962
a b c
d f g
Answer the questions about Carla.
Did she ...
a play computer games? ________________
Yes, she did.
a When did Superman appear for the first time
b drink a can of soft drink? ________________
No, she didn't.
in a comic? ______
1938
c do her homework? ________________ b When did Anne Frank die? ______
d do the ironing? ________________ c When did Edison invent the electric bulb?
e have cabbage for dinner? ________________ ______
f go swimming? ________________ d When did Paramount Studios open in
Hollywood? ______
Now, write sentences about what you did e When was Jon Bon Jovi born? ______
yesterday. f When did George Washington become
__________________________________________
Yesterday, I played computer games. president of the USA? ______
__________________________________________
__________________________________________ Now answer the questions above.
__________________________________________ a _______________________________________
Superman appeared for the first time in 1938.
__________________________________________ b _______________________________________
__________________________________________ c _______________________________________
__________________________________________ d _______________________________________
__________________________________________ e _______________________________________
f _______________________________________
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4. London diaries
4.4 Reading and writing
Unit4
1 Put the sentences of this biography of George Eliot in the correct order.
George Eliot was an English novelist in the
nineteenth century — but this George was
not a man! George Eliot was a woman! Her
real name was Mary Ann Evans. This is the
story of her life …
a All her other books were successful, too.
The most famous are The Mill on the Floss,
Silas Marner and the book some people
think is the best in the English language,
Middlemarch. George Eliot is a famous
writer. But not everybody knows she was a
woman. Why did she change her name?
b When she was young she read all the time.
She never stopped reading and educating
herself. She learned German and Italian, too.
c She was born in 1819 in Warwickshire, England. She was the youngest of five children. She had
two brothers and two sisters. 1
d Well, it was very unusual for women to be educated at all in those days. Most girls never went
to school, and it was very difficult for women to be writers. So, she used a man’s name and
became one of the best writers, male or female, of all time.
e Her favourite brother was Isaac. In one of her novels, she wrote about a brother and sister who
are a lot like her and Isaac.
f Her father died in 1849, and she went to London, where she made lots of friends who told her
she should be a writer. She started writing short stories and then her first novel, Adam Bede,
which was a great success.
2 Now put the novels of George Eliot 3 Complete this form with information
in the correct order. about George Eliot.
a The Mill on the Floss – the next after
______
Adam Bede Year of her birth: ___ 1819
__________
b Middlemarch – 1872 Place of birth: _________
___________
c Silas Marner – eleven years before Family name: _________
______
Middlemarch t her family: _________
Other information abou
________
_____________________
d Adam Bede – her first novel 1
_____________________
________
n: __________________
George Eliot’s professio
about George Eliot:
Interesting information
_________
_____________________
_____________________
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5. London diaries
4.5 Culture
Unit4
The Notting Hill Carnival
1 Read this guidebook extract and complete
the text with and or but.
Places to visit in London: Notting Hill
The success of the film Notting Hill, with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, made this area
of West London world famous. But Notting Hill has always been a special part of
London. With its enormous white houses, tall green trees, big squares, friendly
community, excellent shops (a) ____ cafes, the famous Portobello Road street market
(b) ____ lovely parks, it is a very special place to live. That´s why many famous celebrities,
including Madonna, have houses there. Sadly, it is now one of the most expensive places
to live in Europe! (c) ____ much more famous than the film is the Notting Hill Carnival –
the biggest street carnival in Europe.
The first Caribbean carnival was celebrated in Trinidad after the Abolition of Slavery in
1833. Black Caribbeans had a street party with songs, dance (d) ____ costumes. Over the next century, people
from the Caribbean developed the principal aspects of the Carnival – the calypso music, the colourful costumes
(e) ____ the spectacular vehicles where the musicians play as they parade through the streets.
Many West Indians immigrated to the UK in the 1950s (f) ____ took with them their musical traditions. For
several years, Carnival was celebrated inside in big halls. (g) ___ in 1964 Rhaune Laslett, a social worker,
organised a party outside her house, and this was the first street carnival. It quickly grew as year after year
more people came to dance, to watch (h) ____ to party. (i) ____ now over a million people come each of the
three days to the festivities. Today it is an enormous event that dominates the streets of Notting Hill for the
last Friday, Saturday (j) ____ Sunday of August. Crazy and usually hot, the Notting Hill Carnival is a fantastic
party (k) ____ a celebration of multicultural London. Don’t miss it!
2 Write true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.
a Hugh Grant lives in Notting Hill with Julia Roberts. _________________________________________
F. They lived there in the film.
b Notting Hill is a very green area of London. _______________________________________________
c Nobody famous lives there. _____________________________________________________________
d Notting Hill is a horrible, cheap place to live. ______________________________________________
e The first Caribbean Carnival was only for slaves. __________________________________________ __
f The first Carnival celebrations in Europe were in the streets of London. _______________________
g Rhaune Haslett was a policeman. ________________________________________________________
h In 1964 she organised the first street carnival outside her house. _____________________________
i The Carnival is on for three days every summer. ___________________________________________
j The guidebook recommends it to visitors. ________________________________________________ _
3 Would you like to go to the Notting Hill Carnival? Do you celebrate Carnival in
your town? Are your celebrations similar to Notting Hill’s?
Write about them in your notebook.
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