Unit 1a Book

Imagine that the radio news on the two rescued sailors has been turned into a newspaper article. Read the article here and complete the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. As the story of the two sailors happened in a specified time in the past, and doesn´t continue up to now (i.e. it is finished), you need to use the Past Simple Tense. Read more about the use and form of this tense in the grammatical overview before you complete the gaps in the online task above. Some of the verbs used in the story have the irregular past form, so if you need to brush off English irregular verbs, go through this list. It lists irregular verbs in groups based on the simple past forms and past participle forms of the verbs: A-A-A, A-B-A, A-B-B, A-A-B and A-B-C. This division seems to be much more effective than listing the verbs in the alphabetical order. While going through the list, you will also notice that not all the verbs are translated into Czech. Only the verbs in bold are translated because those are the most frequent irregular verbs you should know by heart. You may learn the others later as you will need them.

Important: After you complete all the gaps in the rescue story, check your answers by clicking the Check button and leave the task open. Do not close it because you will need the information given in the text to complete this follow-up task. Again, after completing and checking the form, leave it open.