Look at the text and the sentences in exercise 2 again. Find the past simple forms of the verbs below . Underline the verbs that are irregular

we have become more dependent on chemicals.  and, strangely, we hardly notice anymore. every single day we start and finish by using a product that has at least 10 different chemicals in it: a toothpaste. later, we take a shower using several products (shampoo, conditioner, body wash, lotion). the names of the chemicals in all these products will take a few pages to list. later on, we eat chemically enhanced food, packaged in plastic.  we wear and sleep on synthetics, we drink and eat foods that are drastically modified with chemicals.  all these innovations have been introduced less than 50 years ago, just two generations have been around so many chemicals lately.  and, scarily enough, we hardly notice anymore.

they saidthat the bookwas translated from germanin 1989.

christmas tragedy with happy end

christmas eve it’s a time when magical things happen.

i’d like to tell you a real story that happened last year on christmas eve.

that evening i together with a friend went to greet my grandparents who live not far from us. everything went very well, we were having fun, but finally were supposed to go home. we said good-bye to my grandparent and run home to have a party with my parents and their friends. as soon as i live on the 5-th floor, i never hesitate to use an elevator. i pressed the button, the elevator arrived, opened the door, we entered, pressed the necessary button, the door closed, and than we heard a strange sound that reminds sound of a dying light bulb, the light switched off and the elevator stopped.   all this happened 40 minutes before midnight. we were staying in that dark quiet box.

thanks god, i had my cellular phone with me, i called my parents, and they called the elevator repair company, but nobody answered there.

than my friend and i began to plead santa tearfully to do a miracle and let us out of the elevator. and i think that we asked him so earnestly to do a miracle, that that miracle happened: the light turned on and the door opened three minutes before midnight.

and we all had a really happy christmas.