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Task 1

Grow - Take -

Copy - Need -

Move - Write -

Cut - Play -

Watch - Do -

Wear - Chat -

Task 2

Valentina Tereshkova - the first female astronaut

Career timeline:

1955 At eighteen, Valentina Tereshkova joined (join) a parachuting club

1961 She ________ (apply) to become an astronaut six years later. At that time, the space
program of the Soviet Union ________ (begin) to look for women astronauts- they ________
(want) to be the first country to send a woman into space.

1961 Yuri Gagarin ________ (select) Tereshkova to train as an astronaut the same year. But it
________ (be) a secret - her mother ________ (learn) about it on the radio!

On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova flew into space. She________ (travel) around the Earth forty-
eight times before returning to Earth.

1963 She ________ (marry) astronaut Andrian Nikolayev in November.

1964 They ________ (have) a daughter, Yelena - the first child of two astronauts.
Task 3

1. Armstrong landed on the moon in 1967. (?)

Did Armstrong Land on the moon in 1907?

2. She dived into the freezing pool. (?)

3. The passengers were all from Russia. (-)

4. We got tired after running 5 km. (-)

5. Our children played in the tree house all afternoon. (?)

6. I had a bad experience on the journey. (-)

7. Paula ate a delicious meal in the restaurant. (?)

8. They spent the afternoon watching tennis. (-)

Task 4

The first man in space

On 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became (become) the first man to travel into outer space.
At 6:07 a.m. he ________ (take off) in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, and then he ________ (fly)
once around the Earth.

Nearly two hours later, he ________ (parachute) down towards the ground, but he ________
(not land) in the right place. He ________ (finish) his trip in a field 280 km away. A farmer
and his daughter ________ (see) him land, and at first they ________ (be) very frightened.

Gagarin was a hero when he ________ (return) to Earth, but he ________ (not retire) from
work. Instead, he ________ (travel) around the world telling his story. After that, he
________ (work) for the Russian Air Force and he ________ (help) to test new planes.
Unfortunately, one of Gagarin's planes ________ (crash) on 27th March 1968 and he
________ (die) in the accident at the age of 34.
Task 5

IKEA is born

Ingvar Kamprad was / were the founder of the furniture company IKEA.

He was / were born in 1926 in Sweden. His parents wasn't / weren't rich - they was / were
farmers and the family home was / were near a small village in the south of Sweden.

Ingvar wasn't / weren't interested in farming. He started IKEA in his uncle's kitchen in 1943.
His first products was / were pencils and other small items. There wasn't / weren't any IKEA
stores before 1958 - it was / were only possible to buy things from IKEA by mail. The first
IKEA store was / were in Sweden, but now there Lare stores around the world.

Task 6

The story of cashpoint

There weren't any cash machines (sometimes called “cashpoints”) until the 1960s. When
people wanted (want) to take out money from their bank, they usually ________ (visit) the
bank and ________ (wait) in a line to speak to one of the bank workers.

Banks ________ (open) during the week and on Saturday mornings. This was a problem if
you ________ (need) money at any other time. John Shepherd-Barron ________ (study) at
the University of Cambridge and he ________ (work) for De La Rue, a company that made
banknotes for different countries.

One day, John ________ (arrive) at his bank, but it was closed and he couldn't get any
money. He ________ (notice) the vending machines that people ________ (use) to buy drinks
and food and he ________ (decide) that it was possible to have a “money vending machine”.
He ________ (talk) to Barclays - a British bank - and they ________ (like) his idea. That was in
1965. Today there are over two million cash machines around the world.

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