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1. Is there a lottery in your country? Do you think it is a good idea to buy tickets? Why?/ Why not?
2. Read the text. Are all lottery winners happy?
Last weekend, somebody bought a lottery ticket, chose all the correct numbers and won millions. How lucky! Or maybe not. In the 1970s, scientists at the University of Illinois studied lottery winners and compared their levels of happiness with other people. The results were interesting. The winners felt delighted for a short time, but after that, their happiness returned to normal levels. A similar study by the University of California in 2008 gave the same results. They looked at lottery winners six months after their win and found completely normal levels of happiness. And for a few unlucky people, a huge lottery win was the start of major problems. Alex Toth, for example, won $13 million in 1990. He stopped working, spent the money quickly and had terrible arguments with his family and friends.
3. Read the Learn this! box. Find all the past simple forms in the text in exercise 2. Match them with rules a–d in the Learn this! box.
| LEARN THIS! Past simple (affirmative) a. We form the past simple form of regular verbs by adding -ed to the infinitive. want – wanted; talk – talked b. There are some rules about spelling changes. 1. drop – dropped; 2. marry – married; 3. move – moved c. Some verbs have irregular past simple forms. go – went; begin – began; leave – left; take – took d. The past simple of the verb be has two forms, singular and plural. be – was/were |
| ⇒ Grammar Builder IB Past simple (affirmative): page 108. |
4. ☊1.07 Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Then listen and check.
In 2002, nineteen-year-old British refuse collector Michael Carroll and his family (1) ______ (be) delighted when he (2) ______ (win) £9.7 million in the lottery. He (3) _____ (give) millions of pounds to charity and to friends and relatives. He also (4) _____ (spend) thousands on loud, all-night parties, and over the next few years, he (5) _____ (get) into trouble with the police several times. His wife Sandra (6) ______ (be) cross and
upset and (7) _____ (decide) to leave. Soon, he (8) _____ (have) no money left, and in 2010, he (9) _____ (begin) work as a refuse collector again. ‘I’m just glad it's over,’ he (10) _____ (say).
5. Complete the sentences with the adjectives below and the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
bored delighted embarrassed
suspicious upset
1. Sandra Carroll felt (feel) upset when Michael spent (spend) all his money on parties.
2. Spencer _____ (be) _____ when he _____ (drop) all his money on the floor of the shop.
3. Bess _____ (be) _____ when she ____ (win) the essay competition.
4. I _____ (feel) a bit _____ when the man ____ (say) he was a millionaire.
5. I _____ (get) a bit _____ because Dan _____ (talk) about his new girlfriend all evening.
6. SPEAKING Tell your partner about a time when you had these feelings. Use the past simple.
1. anxious 2. confused
3. cross 4. excited
5. shocked 6. upset
I was anxious because I had a music exam.
