COLEGIO DE EDUCACIÓN TÉCNICA Y ACADÉMICA CELESTIN

FREINET
ÁREA HUMANIDADES - INGLÉS

TALLER DE ACTIVIDADES COMPLEMENTARIAS

ASIGNATURA ______________________GRADO ____ PERIODO ____

CONDICIONES ESPECÍFICAS PARA LA PRESENTACIÓN DEL TALLER:

 Desarrolle los puntos en su totalidad
 En caso de no aprobar la EVALUACION BIMESTRAL (CENSAL) desarrolle todo el taller.
 El taller se debe presentar en hojas examen, a mano y con carpeta de presentación.
 El taller es pre requisito para seguir la segunda y tercera fase (sustentación – evaluación)

FECHA: ____________NOMBRE:_________________________________CURSO:__________

1. COMPLETE WITH THE CORRECT FORM OF THE VERBS IN THE LISTS. .

Past Tense
Sentences:

retire | start | get | travel | settle |

leave

0 When he was sixteen, he started a career in computer science.

1 It has always been my ambition to ____________ the world.
2 My grandfather ____________________ school at 15. That’s why he has no qualifications.
3 Donald made so much money with his invention that he __________________ at the age of thirty.
4 She didn’t ___________________ down and start a family until she was in her forties.
5 My grandmother _____________________a degree in physics when she was eighty!

train | not steal | walk | leave | look |

go

0 was walking home with my brother early one afternoon. We both felt really tired because we
1_____________ really hard for hours at the gym. When we got to the house we noticed that
someone 2_______________ the front door open. We looked at each other, and
3________________ inside. A strange man 4 ______________around our front room. When he saw
us, he fled. Fortunately, he 5 ___________________ anything

Conversations: (use the present tense)

do | like | be | go | sound | hear

MARY: Tony! Good to see you! Where 0 have you been ?

TONY: I 1____________ research for my media project.
MARY: That 2 ____________ interesting.
TONY: It isn’t, really. So, where 3 ___________you now?
MARY: I 4 _________ just there’s a new cafe in Moor Street!
TONY: Can I come? I 5 ________________ trying new places.
MARY: Sure.
 2. USE THE CORRECT.
Present Tense
Write sentences.
0 My parents / want me / go / to university .
My parents want me to go to university. ______
1 Sally / practise / the piano at the moment.
_______________________________________________________
2 I / love / classical music / since I was a child.
_______________________________________________________
3 What / you / do / for the past hour?
________________________________________________________
4 I / think / you / need / a holiday.
________________________________________________________
5 Daniel / always / use / my laptop without asking!
________________________________________________________

Complete the sentences.

0 I haven’ t done (not do) my homework yet.
1 Donna ___________________ (hate) going to the gym.
2 I __________________ (try) to buy tickets online for 2 hours now!
3 It’s 11 a.m. and my sister ______________________________ (still sleep).
4 You _____________________________ (ask) me that question three times already.
5 Nobody really ___________________________ (understand) how the brain works.

Past Tense
Complete the sentences.
0 As I was riding (ride) to school yesterday I saw (see) a car accident.
1 By the time I _________________________ (get) home, everyone
___________________________(go) to bed.
2 They __________________ (take) off their clothes and ___________________ (dive) into the river.
3 The room was empty, but it ____________ (be) in a mess – someone ____________ (have) a
party!
4 I ___________________________ (not sleep) well for weeks, so I ________________(decide) to
go and see my doctor.
5 You ___________________ (hit) the tree because you ____________________ (drive) too fast.

1. CIRCLE THE CORRECT WORDS.

Sentences:
0 I walked / was walking down the street when a man grabbed / had grabbed my bag.
1 Someone stole / had been stealing my bike because I was forgetting / had forgotten to lock it.
2 We were / had been delighted to find the book we looked / had been looking for since that morning.
3 The fire destroyed / had destroyed the building by the time the fire service arrived / had arrived.
4 The good news came / was coming when we hadn’t expected / weren’t expecting it.
5 I didn’t know / hadn’t known what I was doing / had done to make my brother so angry

Future

0 I ’ll meet / ’m meeting Maria at 2 o’clock this afternoon.

1 Do you think Dan ’ll be picked / ’s being picked for the school team this year?
2 Sally is learning Portuguese because she ’ll live / ’s going to live in Brazil.
3 I think I ’ll go / ’m going for a bike ride after lunch.
4 We ’ll leave / ’re leaving here at six-thirty, so don’t be late!
5 Are you going to eat / Will you eat that last sandwich, or can I have it?

Conversations:
JEFF: What food 0 are you going to / will you bring to Mark’s party this weekend?
GREG: I’m not sure. Maybe I 1m going to / ’ll make a pizza.
JEFF: Good idea. Della says she 2’ll make / ’s going to bake a cake.
GREG: That 3will be / is being nice. Her cakes are fantastic.
JEFF: How 4will you get / are you getting to Mark’s house?
GREG: I think I 5’ll walk / ’m walking there.

2. WRITE THE QUESTIONS.

0 A: What are you doing on Saturday.?
B: We’re having a party on Saturday.
1. A: _____________________________________ ?
B I think Germany will win the World Cup next year.

2. A: _____________________________________ ?
B I’m meeting Sally this afternoon.

3. A: _______________________________________ ?
B Tim is going to study English at university.

4. A: ________________________________________ ?
B No, I don’t think it will rain this evening.

5. A: ________________________________________ ?
B I’m going to be a writer when I grow up

USED TO / WOULD
1. Complete the sentences Sometimes more than one answer is possible.

0 Did you use to go to school in Canada?

1 My sister ____________________ always beat me when we played chess.
2 We didn’t ___________________ own a computer.
3 When they lived in the city, they______________________ eat in a restaurant every weekend.
4 Why did Daniel _________________ be afraid of cats?
5 When you were in the school team, how often __________________ you train?

2. Answer the questions with your own ideas.

0 How did people use to travel before cars were invented?

They used to walk and ride horses_____________________________________________________

1 What did children use to play with in the Middle Ages?

________________________________________________________________________________

2 What kind of food did you use to like best when you were three years old?
________________________________________________________________________________

3 How did people use to find information before the internet?

________________________________________________________________________________

4 Two centuries ago, where did people use to go when they were ill?
________________________________________________________________________________

5 What games did you use to like playing when you were six years old?
________________________________________________________________________________

2 Complete the sentences with the words in the list.

Ages | 2010 | age | long | days | century

0 We lived in France from 2005 to 2010 ____.

1 There were a lot of new inventions in the last ________________ .
2 I’m surprised that people still believe in ghosts in this day and _______________.
3 Not so ________________ ago, I didn’t know how to use a computer.
4 These ______________ it seems like everyone owns a mobile phone.
5 Life was very hard for the poor in the Middle __________________ .