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Unit 6: Great achievers
Past simple

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  1. 1Nice to meet you!
  2. 2What to wear
  3. 3Like this, like that
  4. 4The daily grind
  5. 5Christmas every day
  6. 6Great achievers
  7. 7The Titanic
  8. 8Travel
  9. 9The big wedding
  10. 10Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11The bucket list
  12. 12Moving and migration
  13. 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14New Year, New Project
  15. 15From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16What's the weather like?
  17. 17The Digital Revolution
  18. 18A detective story
  19. 19A place to live
  20. 20The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21Welcome to your new job
  22. 22Beyond the planets
  23. 23Great expectations!
  24. 24Eco-tourism
  25. 25Moving house
  26. 26It must be love
  27. 27Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28Speeding into the future
  29. 29Lost arts
  30. 30Tales of survival

Session 1

Welcome to Unit 6! You're going to meet lots of interesting and exciting people - and learn about the past simple tense. In Session 1, Emma does a pub quiz about some great achievers. Join her team and see if you know the answers. Then, listen to the after-quiz conversation and hear examples of the past simple tense in action.

 

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Activity 1

Great Achievers Quiz

Welcome to Unit 6. It's time to find out about the past simple tense. Let's have some fun: here’s Emma ...

Watch the video and try the quiz

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Emma
Hello. Emma here. Look - there's a quiz taking place in this pub. Let's give it a go.

Ooh we're just in time! I hope you are feeling clever as I really need your help! Will you be in my quiz team please? Great!

It should be really interesting - all the questions are about people who have achieved great things. Are you sitting comfortably? Do you have a drink? Good. We can begin. I'll let you know what the questions are and then you need to select the correct answer. Good luck!

To do

Help Emma's team in the quiz - see if you know the answers to these questions.

Great achievers quiz

6 Questions

Can you answer these quiz questions?

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Excellent!Great job!Carraa badaa!Qabxii argatte:
x / y

Next

How many correct answers did you get? On the next page you can hear how another team got on.

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Session Vocabulary

  • achieve
    succeed in doing or getting something, especially after a lot of effort

    hurdles
    frames or fences that people jump over in a running race

    sailed
    travelled across water in a boat or ship

    the South Pole
    the point on the earth’s surface (in Antarctica) that is further south than any other point

    qualify
    (here) be successful in one stage of a competition so that you are allowed to move to the next stage

    retired
    stopped working because of old age

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