Unit 6: Great achievers
Past simple
Select a unit
- 1Nice to meet you!
- 2What to wear
- 3Like this, like that
- 4The daily grind
- 5Christmas every day
- 6Great achievers
- 7The Titanic
- 8Travel
- 9The big wedding
- 10Sunny's job hunt
- 11The bucket list
- 12Moving and migration
- 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14New Year, New Project
- 15From Handel to Hendrix
- 16What's the weather like?
- 17The Digital Revolution
- 18A detective story
- 19A place to live
- 20The Cult of Celebrity
- 21Welcome to your new job
- 22Beyond the planets
- 23Great expectations!
- 24Eco-tourism
- 25Moving house
- 26It must be love
- 27Job hunting success... and failure
- 28Speeding into the future
- 29Lost arts
- 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: hereβs Emma ...
Watch the video and try the quiz
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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She wrote more than 6.Question 1 of 6
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Short but fast!Question 2 of 6
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Look out for penguins!Question 3 of 6
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A South American team.Question 4 of 6
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Less than 20.Question 5 of 6
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She didn't do very well!Question 6 of 6
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Next
How many correct answers did you get? On the next page you can hear how another team got on.
Session Vocabulary
achieve
succeed in doing or getting something, especially after a lot of efforthurdles
frames or fences that people jump over in a running racesailed
travelled across water in a boat or shipthe South Pole
the point on the earthβs surface (in Antarctica) that is further south than any other pointqualify
(here) be successful in one stage of a competition so that you are allowed to move to the next stageretired
stopped working because of old age