UPTC

INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES INSTITUTE

ENGLISH II
TEACHER: Juan Carlos Gonzlez Galindo
UNIT 5: GROWING UP
LESSON A: CHILDHOOD
PRACTICE EXERCISES
A. Write the following years in letters
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

1973 ____________________________
1705 ____________________________
1810 ____________________________
2001 ____________________________
2031 ____________________________

B. The following sentences have mistakes. Find them and make the sentences correct.
1. I lived in Santiago when five years, then I came to Bogot.
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2. I learned to play the violin twelve years since, in 2000.
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3. I wanted to be an actor then I was a child. In fact, I taked drama classes after
school, but not for last, just six months.
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4. Susan didnt born in The U.S. Her family move here when she was two.
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5. My grandfathers birthday is on December, in the 25th exactly.
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C. Complete the conversation using the words and the verbs (in the past tense)in the
box:
Ago
get

go
in

enter
have

be
decide

graduate
choose

A: How old _______ you when you _____________ school?

B: I ______ five years old.
A: When _______ that?
B: It ______ nineteen years ______. Im 24 now.
A: ____ you always _______ to the same school?
B: No, I __________. I _________ to different schools in elementary and high school.
A: _________ you a good student?
B: Well, kind of. I usually _______ good grades, but sometimes I ______ in trouble.
Fortunately, it ______________ anything serious.

A:
B:
A:
B:

And when _____ you _____________ from high school?

I _________________ when I _______ 16, _____ 2004.
And why _____ you _____________ to study medicine?
Well, in fact I ______________________ that, it was my father, but now I like it.