Learning activity 3

Evidence: What was happening when it happened?

Juan David Gaviria Ospina

National learning service SENA

English Dot Works 4

July 2020
Part A

The images below show a series of events. Write sentences in past continuous or
past simple.

Example:

I – iron – a – shirt / I – burn – it

Answer: I was ironing a shirt when I

burned it.

1. He – paint – the – wall / when – the –

baby – spill – the – can- of – paint

He was painting the wall when the baby

spilled the can of paint

2. I – water – the plants / when –a

– frog – leap – out – onto – my – feet

I was watering the plants, when a frog

leaped to my feet
 3. I – sweep – while – I – dance

I was sweeping while I was dancing

4. They – watch – a – movie – when –

they – fall – asleep

They were watching a movie when

they fell asleep

5. She – write – while – she – talk – on –

the – phone

She was writing while she was talking on

the telephone

Fuente de imágenes: SENA

Part B

Think about when you were 12 years old. Write three paragraphs about the things
that you used to do, you used to like or used to hate and explain why. You have
some ideas in the box.

I used to work hard painting when I was 7 years old because my mom wanted me
to be an artist and I liked this because thanks to that I have talent and I work hard
to reach my goals, Back then I used to spend hours and hours practicing different
techniques and learning all about art then now I am an artist and I’m studying
multimedia production at SENA and creating my future acquiring knowledge to
have a successful life doing what I like.
I used to make arts and crafts when I was twelve, I liked all of this since I was a
child and tried to be the best sometimes I liked to get together with my friends and
paint together, then we changed our art works to have them as a memory forever
I used to think that time would last forever so my friends and I were very close but
now each one took his way in different ways.

I used to hate when my grandmother made soup and vegetables, I used to hate
coming from school and finding a terrible soup that for a child is the most
disgusting … paradoxically now I love soup, when I was a child I used to eat
candies and desserts and that’s why I was a fat boy, my mother began to control
my diet and I could stop being chubby and in my adolescence I used to hate
sweets because I did not want to be fat again.