Review 4 (lessons 19–23)
Declared core time. Two of the core blocks carry no figure at all, so the real lesson is longer than this sum.
Irregular verbs
4 minTen new ones, with three forms:
| cut — cut — cut (use a knife on) | hit — hit — hit (strike) | let — let — let (allow) |
| lend — lent — lent (give for a time) | lie — lay — lain (be flat, e.g. in bed) | mean — meant — meant (have as its sense; want to say) |
| rise — rose — risen (go up) | spend — spent — spent (pay out; pass time) | steal — stole — stolen (take what is not yours) |
| win — won — won (come first) |
Three of them do not change at all — cut, hit, let — and that is a trap of its own: the form does not show whether it is the present or the past; only the context does.
lie — lay — lain means "be flat, e.g. in bed". lie meaning "say something untrue" is a regular verb: lied.
Tricky point
3 mineach other — one person to the other, and the other way round.
| We know each other. | I know you, and you know me |
| They help each other every day. | he helps her, and she helps him |
| We write to each other every week. | I write to you, and you write to me |
each other never changes its form; a preposition goes before it: about each other, with each other, to each other. Spanish nos conocemos, French on se connaît and German wir kennen uns say this with the same small word as "ourselves", so learners say ✗ We know us. In English it is each other.
Do not confuse it with themselves: They talked about themselves — each of them talked about himself or herself; They talked about each other — he talked about her, and she talked about him.
Exercises on lessons 19–23
10–12 min1. Mixed gap fill.
- I (born) in Rio de Janeiro
- Breakfast (include) in the price
- I (work) there in 2019
- I enjoy (read) in English
- takes me twenty minutes to get to work
Show the answers
2. Error correction.
- I born in 1990.
- I have worked there in 2019.
- I came here for study English.
- Turn on it.
- Takes twenty minutes.
- I did a mistake.
Show the answers
3. Multiple choice.
- `I in a hotel for two years, from 2018 to 2020.`
- `I in a hotel — I know this job well.`
Show the answers
4. Matching.
- enjoy
- finish
- want
- decide
- need
Show the answers
Summary
Covered
- lessons 19–23 in full
- eighty irregular verbs in the course so far
Next — lesson 25: complaining.
End of the core
The lesson counts as done once the exercises are done. Everything after this is optional.
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Mini production
Talk aloud and then write down eight sentences: where you were born, where you have worked and when, what you like about studying, why you are learning English and how long your journey takes.
Checklist before lesson 25:
- is it I was born, not I born?
- where the time is named — the Past Simple; where it is experience — the perfect?
- is there -ing after enjoy and finish, and to after want and decide?
- is "in order to" to, not for?
- is the pronoun in the middle of the phrasal verb?
- does every sentence have it or there as its subject?
Practise this lesson in the other sections
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