Unit 10 Online Practice Exercises

1. Let's Go to The Movies!

 LISTENING COMPREHENSION CLIP SOURCE: Eat, Pray, Love (2011)

Here's what you do:

1. Click on the video above.
2. Watch the video, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)
3. Answer the listening comprehension questions on this link:  http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_movieclip6.html
4. Check your answers.

Here is another one:

FILM TRAILERS: Midnight in Paris

Here's what you do:

1. Click on the video above.
2. Watch the video, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)
3. Answer the listening comprehension questions on this link:  http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_trailer9.html
4. Check your answers.

2. The Simple Past

The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action.

Form of Simple Past
no differences	Positive	Negative	Question
	I spoke.	I did not speak.	Did I speak?

For irregular verbs, use the past form (see list of irregular verbs, 2nd column: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/irregular-verbs). For regular verbs, just add “ed”.

Exceptions in Spelling when Adding “ed”
Exceptions in spelling when adding “ed”	Example
After a final “e” only add “d”	love – loved
Final consonant after a short, stressed vowel or “l” as final consonant after a vowel is doubled	admit – admitted travel – travelled
Final “y” after a consonant becomes “i “	hurry – hurried

Use of Simple Past

ü  Action in the past taking place once, never or several times

Example: He visited his parents every weekend.

ü  Actions in the past taking place one after the other

Example: He came in, took off his coat and sat down.

ü  Action in the past taking place in the middle of another action

Example: When I was having breakfast, the phone suddenly rang.

Exercises:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?03
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?02
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?04
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?05
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?06
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?07
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises

Affirmative Sentences:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=1&type=positive
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=2&type=positive
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=3&type=positive
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=4&type=positive

Negative Sentences:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=1&type=negative

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=2&type=negative

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=3&type=negative

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=4&type=negative

Questions:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=1&type=question

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=2&type=question

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=3&type=question

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/exercises?tense=3&level=4&type=question

Simple Past Paragraphs:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/usa/tour/chicago#exercises
http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/uk/tour/oxford#exercises

Story:"Goldilocks and the three bears"
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/goldilocks
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/goldilocks?02
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/goldilocks?03

Simple Past Complete Tests:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-past-1
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-past-2
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-past-3

3. TV & Movies

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3899

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3899 
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2042  

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7271

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6542  

4. Music Vocabulary & More

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-music.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2003

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=372

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2228

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1100

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=773