1. Isabel bought a lot of things for Paco (past simple affirmative)
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The Simple Past Tense: Isabel went shopping
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Isabel saw a lot of useful stuff for Paco, but she knew she could not buy so many things.
Paco wanted to take a lot of articles with him, although he knewthat he could buy anything he would need anywhere.
In the end, he changed his mind and he tried to take just a few things, only the most necessary ones.
As Paco likes video recording and photography a lot, of course he took his two cameras , but he wasn't sure about taking his laptop with him.
Identify all the simple past affirmative forms you can find in the text, either regular or irregular ones.
Ejercicio Resuelto
went | to need |
bought | to know |
thought | to have |
needed | to want |
decided | to buy |
saw | to go |
wanted | to try |
knew | to think |
changed | to take |
tried | to see |
liked | to decide |
took | to change |
had | to like |
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Curiosidad
Do you know the difference between England and Britain?
Three countries make up Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales. So England is a part of Great Britain, and a Scotsman is British, too. A person born in Wales is Welsh, and they are British, too. Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom.
So the UK is made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the last of which is not a part of Great Britain. The formal name of the country is the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, but in everyday speech Britain is often used to mean the UK, though, as you have seen, this is not perfectly correct.
The word “great” was added to “Britain” several hundred years ago, in the Middle Ages, when the English kings had lands in what is now France, and a certain part of it was called Britanny. To avoid confusion, they added the word “great” to the name of the land which was larger.
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