UNIT 7

2 | Complete the table with the past simple forms of the verbs in Exercise 1. Use the irregular verb list on page 119 to help you.
Regular Verbs | Irregular Verbs
created | ...

3 | Complete the sentences with the correct past simple verbs in Exercise 2. 1 Ada Lovelace created the first computer algorithm with Charles Babbage in the 19th century / 20th century. 2 Alexander Fleming ... penicillin, the first antibiotic, in 1807/ 1928. 3 Maria Telkes and Eleanor Raymond ... the first house heated with solar energy in 1948 / 1998. 4 Hattie McDaniel ... the first African American to get an Oscar in 1909 / 1940. 5 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ... the first photograph with a camera in the 1820s / 1920s. 6 People ... to send text messages via WhatsApp in 1999 / 2009. 7 Josephine Cochrane ... the first dishwasher in 1886 / 1986. 8 Amelia Earhart ... across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in 1902 / 1932. 9 Pixar first ... computers to make an animated film in 1985 / 1995.

4 |  |  | 7.02 Write the correct dates in Exercise 3 in your notebook to complete the answers to the quiz. Then listen and check.

5 | Work in pairs. Match 1-6 with a-f to make questions.
1 When did Lionel Messi b 2 When did Beyoncé 3 When did scientists 4 When did Vespasian 5 When did Lewis Hamilton | a discover Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt? b start to play soccer for Argentina? c build the Colosseum? d win his first Formula One? e create her first perfume?

6 | Work in pairs. Take turns to ask the questions in Exercise 5 and guess the dates. • between 70 and 72 CE • in 1922 • in 2007 • in 2009 • in 2005

When did Lionel Messi start to play soccer for Argentina? | I think he started to play for Argentina in 2004.

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