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SUBJECT: ENGLISH GRADE SIXTH __________________

TOPIC: VERBS IN PAST TENSE

TEACHER:
TO: ______________________
DATE: FROM: ___________________

INTRODUCTION:
This activity has been designed to evaluate students’s performance at using
and writing the verbs past tenses on a proper way.

ACTIVITIES:
1. Read about a famous person. Put the verbs into the PAST SIMPLE.
LOUIS BRAILLE (1809-1852)

Louis Braille (1) _______________ (be) the son of a French leader worker. He
(2)______________________(go) blind at the age of three when he
(3) ______________ (fall) in his father’s workroom. But Louis was very smart.
He (4)_______________________(want) to be a musician, so he (5)
__________________(learn) to play the cello, and at the age of ten he (6)
_________________ (win) a scholarship to the National Institute for Blind
Children in Paris. He (7) ______________ (can) play the cello, but he (8)
____________ (can not) read or write. In 1819 a French soldier, Charles
Barbier, (9) _____________________(invent) “night writing”.He (10)
_________________ (draw) special dots on paper so that soldiers (11)
______________ (can) read at night. Louis Braille (12) ______________
(understand) the importance of this invention for blind people and when he
was fifteen, he (13) __________________ (begin) to develop it. In 1829 he (14)
_________________ (start) to use it at the institute.
By 1932 “Braille” was in use all over the world, but Louis (15) ___________(die)
in 1852 and he never (16) ____________________ (know) of the importance
of his invention.

2. Write down examples with the following time expressions:

- This morning.
- Last vacation.
- In 1980.
- Last night.
- Yesterday.
GOOD LUCK!!!