Desayuno, almuerzo y cena/Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Biografía de Mozart (Pasado Simple)/ Mozart's Biography (Past Simple)

COMPLETE THE BIOGRAPHY WITH THE PAST SIMPLE FORM OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart _________ (be) born on January 27, in Salzburg (Austria). Mozart ___________ (be) a musical prodigy. He ______________ (begin) playing the piano when he ____________ (be) only three years old. At five he ________________ (write) his own music.

Mozart _______________ (play) for the kings and rich people. When he ___________ (be) a teenager he ___________________ (write) and ______________________ (complete) his first opera. He _________________________ (continue) to write great songs as an adult, but he ___________________________  (not/become) famous.

Mozart ___________ (get) married when he ___________________ (be) 26 years old and he ___________ (have) two sons. He ___________________________ (not/make) much money from  his compositions. Mozart _________________ (get)  ill and ___________ (die) on December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria. Mozart ________________________ (give) one of his students instructions on how to complete his last work, the ‘Requiem’ mass.

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:

1. What was his name?

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2. When was he born?

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3. Where was he born?

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4. When did he begin playing the piano?

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5. When did he write and complete his first opera?

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6. When did he get married?

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7. Where did he die?

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El Pasado Simple -verbos regulares /Past Simple (regular verbs)

PAST SIMPLE

We use the Past Simple to talk about finished actions in the past.

- With regular verbs, we usually add 'ed' to the verb.

Examples: talk: talked  watch: watched wait: waited

- If the verbs ends in 'e' (for example, live), we add 'd' to the verb.

Examples: use:used like: liked celebrate: celebrated

- If a short verb ends in a vowel + consonant (for example, plan), we double the consonant and add 'ed'.

Examples: stop:stopped admit: admitted travel: travelled

- If the verb ends in consonant + 'y' (for example, try), we change the 'y' to 'i'and add 'ed'.

Examples: study: studied carry: carried marry: married

Signal words: 'yesterday', '2 minutes ago', 'in 1990', 'the other day', 'last Friday'…

Affirmative	Interrogative	Negative
I walked	Did I walk?	I didn’t walk
You walked	Did you walk?	You didn’t walk
She/he/it walked	Did she/he/it walk?	She/he/it didn’t walk
We walked	Did we walk?	We didn’t walk
You walked	Did you walk?	You didn’t walk
They walked	Did they walk?	They didn’t walk

Attention to this:

I was born in 1966.

When were you born?

A video about the Past Simple:

Ropa (Vocabulario) Clothes (Vocabulary)

Pronunciación del pasado regular/ Regular Past Simple pronunciation rules

Un vídeo que puede ayudarnos (y mucho) a comprender esta pronunciación. A video that can help us (and a lot) to understand this pronunciation.