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1. Read the text. 

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 Ullinois 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.

Are all the winners happy? (yes/no).

2. Find all the past simple forms in the text. Match them with rules a-d below.

LEARN THIS! Past simple (affirmative)

a. We form the past simple form of the 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 form of verb be has two forms, singular and plural.

be - was/were

     

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3. Complete the sentences with regular and irregular past simple forms from exercise 2.

 

4. Complete the sentences with the adjectives below and the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

bored  / delighted   /  disappointed  /  embarrassed  /  relieved   / suspicious  /  upset