Pre-intermediate Unit 4a

This is a grammar exercise from a pre-intermediate English language learning unit. The text excerpt features a short summary of the film "In a Lonely Place" with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. It is a love story about Dix, a writer, and Laura, an actress. It also focuses on a murder investigation where Dix is suspected. The unit presents and practices the use of the past simple tense, including its affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms. It reviews regular and irregular verbs in the past simple, the forms of 'to be' (was/were), and common time expressions used with the past simple (yesterday, last week, two years ago). Exercises prompt learners to fill in the blanks with the past simple form of verbs and to construct questions.

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• Past Simple Tense: The unit provides grammar guidelines for using the past simple tense to talk about actions and situations in the past. It covers affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms using regular and irregular verbs, and the verb 'to be'.
• Regular Verbs in Past Simple: The unit explains that regular verbs typically add '-ed' to form the past simple. Examples: kill -> killed, defend -> defended.
• Irregular Verbs in Past Simple: The unit explains that irregular verbs have irregular past simple forms that do not follow the '-ed' rule. Examples: become -> became, leave -> left, tell -> told.
• Verb 'to be' in Past Simple: The unit provides the past simple forms of the verb 'to be': was (for I/He/She/It) and were (for You/We/They).
• Time Expressions with Past Simple: The unit lists common time expressions used with the past simple, such as yesterday, last week, last year, two years ago, five minutes ago.