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MURDER
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STORY
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1. Do you read detective stories? Who is your favorite fictional detective?
2. READING PRACTICE. Read the back cover of a murder story. Then cover it and look at the
photographs. Can you remember who the people are?
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3. Read the story. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false). Correct the F sentences.
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4. Look at the highlighted irregular verbs in the story. What are the infinitives?
5. (Recordings 8.1, 8.2, 8.3) Listen to the inspector question Barbara. Write the information in the
chart. Listen again and check. Then do the same for Gordon and Claudia.
6. Who do you think the murderer: Amanda, Barbara, Gordon, or Claudia? Why?
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7. (Recording 8.4) Now listen to what happened. Who was the murderer? Why did he/she kill Mr
Travers? Were you right?
8. GRAMMAR PRACTICE. Cover the story and look at these verbs. Are they regular or irregular in
the Past Simple? Write the Past Simple form (+) and (–) for each verb.
9. GRAMMAR PRACTICE: Past Simple. Study the following table.
10. Complete the dialogue using the Past Simple of these verbs in brackets.
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11. Complete the text with the Past Simple of the verbs in brackets.
12. Learn the words.
Инфинитив Past Simple Past Participle Перевод
1. to be was / were been быть
2. to become /bɪˈkʌm/ became /bɪˈkeɪm/ become становится
3. to begin /bɪˈɡɪn/ began /bɪgæn/ begun /bɪˈgʌn/ начинать
4. to break broke broken ломать
5. to bring brought /brɔːt/ brought приносить
6. to build built built строить
7. to buy bought /bɔːt/ bought покупать
8. can could been able to мочь, уметь
9. to catch caught /kɔːt/ caught /kɔːt/ ловить, поймать
10. to come came come приходить
11. to cost cost cost стоить
12. to do did done /dʌn/ делать
13. to drink drank /dræŋk/ drunk /drʌŋk/ пить
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14. to drive drove /drəʊv/ driven /ˈdrɪv(ə)n/
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15. to eat ate /eɪt/ eaten /ˈiːt(ə)n/ кушать
16. to fall /fɔːl/ fell /fel/ fallen /ˈfɔːlən/ падать
17. to feel /fiːl/ felt /felt/ felt чувствовать
18. to find found /faʊnd/ found находить
19. to fly /flaɪ/ flew /fluː/ flown /fləʊn/ летать
20. to forget forgot forgotten забывать
21. to get got got получать
22. to give gave given давать
23. to go went gone идти, ходить
24. to have had had иметь
25. to know knew known знать
26. to leave left left покидать
27. to lose lost lost терять
28. to make made made делать
29. to meet met met встречать
30. to pay paid paid платить
31. to put put put класть
32. to read /riːd/ read /red/ read /red/ читать
33. to run /rʌn/ ran /ræn/ run /rʌn/ бегать
34. to say /seɪ/ said /sed/ said говорить
35. to see /siː/ saw /sɔː/ seen /siːn/ видеть
36. to send sent sent отправить
37. to sing /sɪŋ/ sang /sæŋ/ sung /sʌŋ/ петь
38. to sit sat sat сидеть
39. to sleep slept slept спать
40. to speak /spiːk/ spoke /spəʊk/ spoken /ˈspəʊkən/ говорить
41. to spend spent spent отправлять
42. to stand stood stood встать, стоять
43. to swim /swɪm/ swam /swæm/ swum /swʌm/ плавать
44. to teach /tiːtʃ/ taught /tɔːt/ taught /tɔːt/ обучать
45. to take took taken брать
46. to think /θɪŋk/ thought /θɔːt/ thought думать
47. to understand understood understood понимать
48. to wake woke woken просыпаться
49. to wear wore /wɔː/ worn /wɔː(r)n/ носить (одежду)
50. to win /wɪn/ won /wʌn/ won /wʌn/ выигрывать
51. to write /raɪt/ wrote /rəʊt/ written /ˈrɪtn/ писать
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13. Complete the story. Use the Past Simple of the verb in brackets.
14. Tick (✓) the sentences which are true about you. Make the other sentences true by changing the
underlined words.
15. Complete the sentences with the Past Simple of the verbs below.
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16. The events above took place between 2004 and 2011, one in each year. Decide when you think each
event happened. Which of the events can you remember?
17. Work with your teacher. Find out who was the last person to do these things.
18. You are a police officer. There was a robbery last night. You think your teacher was responsible
for it. Your teacher says she/he went out for dinner and went to the cinema last night. You want to
know if it’s true.
Look at the Police interview form and prepare to ask your teacher the questions. Think of more
questions to get more details about the evening, e.g. What did you wear? What did you eat and
drink? What film was it?
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