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Ania and Toshi don't earn much money. Ania usually gets up at seven. The document discusses verbs used in the past tense and irregular verbs. It provides examples of using past simple and present perfect tenses. It also lists some firsts in television history, such as the first TV soap opera in 1947 and the first TV advertisement in the 1920s.

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English Grammar & Trivia Practice

Ania and Toshi don't earn much money. Ania usually gets up at seven. The document discusses verbs used in the past tense and irregular verbs. It provides examples of using past simple and present perfect tenses. It also lists some firsts in television history, such as the first TV soap opera in 1947 and the first TV advertisement in the 1920s.

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Homework review

Ania and Toshi don’t earn much money


Ania usually gets up at seven
(khusus untuk org ke tiga: he, she, it, Ania, Aldi, Noura, Youngjae)
He gets up at seven
She gets up at seven
My dog gets up at seven

Not play/Joao/own/he
Joao doesn’t play in every match.

Module 2
Past Simple

It refers to something that happens in the past,


and the time is usually clear.

I ate steak yesterday.


(Present perfect: I have eaten steak.)

I learned Thailand nine months ago (past simple).

I have learned Thailand language (present


perfect).

1.How often do you watch television?


( I usually watch television two hours a day).
2.Which programmes or TV chnnels do you
prefer?
I prefer watching dramas to soap opera.
(e.g.: I prefer watching cookery program to
soap operas)

3. Which of these do you sometimes / never


watch?
a.Soap operas
b.Adverts (advertisement)
c. Cookery programmes
I never watch cookery programmes.

1919 (nineteen nineteen)


1929 (nineteen twenty nine)

Scottish (nationality) – Scotland (country).

 What does the word BBC stands for?


 When did the BBC made its first TV
programmes?

List down the verbs that are mentioned in the TV First article!
(to appear, worked, call, went, live, invented, made, watched, had,
became)
Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs
(verbs that end with – (verbs that have
ed) different form)
Work : worked Make : made
Appear: appeared Go: went
Call: called Have/has: had
Live: lived Become: became
Invent: invented Is: was
Are: were
Cost: costed Begin: began
Last: lasted Buy: bought
Cook: cooked Come: came
Complete: completed Run: ran
*The TV programme that I watch, only lasted for
two years.

Practice 1

A. The first TV soap opera began in 1947. Its


name was A woman to Remember.
B.The first TV advert – for a Bulova clock –
lasted just 20 seconds and it costed only $9 to
make!
C.Colour TV came to Europe in the 1960s. The
first colour TVs were very expensive, so not
many people bought them.
D. The Japanese company JVC made the
world’s first VHS video recorders in the mid-
1970s.

2. IMPORTANT FIRSTS (Trivia Questions)


 was / were: is used for questions about
description (noun)
 did: is used for questions about action (verb)

1.Where was the first female police officer


room?
2.Toy Story was the world’s first 100%
computer-generated movie. When did it
come out?
3.What was the first animal in space?
4.Where were the world’s first traffic lights?
5. Where did the Tamagotchi-the world’s first
virtual pet-come from?
6. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
7.Where did the first McDonald’s in Europe
open?
8. Where were the first World Cup finals of the

twenty-first century?

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