Exercise 1. Read the text about Robert Wadlow and check the meanings of the phrases in blue. Write the past simple form of the verbs. Listen and check.

Answer Instructions:

- leave school ( left school): rời trường

- go to university ( went to university): đến trường đại học

- get a qualification (got a qualification): đạt được bằng cấp

- get a job ( got a job): có một công việc

- get married ( got married): cưới

- have children ( had children): có con

- travel ( travelled): du lịch

- die ( died): chết, qua đời

Exercise 2. Do you think people in the USA liked of dislike Robert? Listen to a podcast about him and check your answer.

Answer Instructions:

The people in the USA love Robert

Exercise 3. Read the skills Strategy. Then listen again and complete 1- 9 in the text.

1. was                  2. two brothers       3. two sisters         4. normal

5. seventeen      6. spoke                  7. 800             8. 22     9. feet

Exercise 4. Write the sentences about a person in your family. Use the past simple form of the verbs in the text.

Answer Instructions:

My family has 6 people. My sister is Lana, she grew up in Thanh Hoa, Viet Nam. He went to university when she was 18 years old and she left school when she was 22 years old. She travelled 20 countries in the world. Now, she is living in Philippines.

Exercise 5. Work in pairs. Compare your sentenxes in exercise 4.

Answer Instructions: Học sinh thực hành theo cặp trên lớp