Name: Tomas Cataño

Date: Monday, July 27th, 2020

VERB TENSES REVIEW

Find someone who.

 Has won a race or a contest- My sister has won a race.

 Likes to have very hot baths- My mom and I like to have very hot baths.

 Reads more than one book a week - My cousin Valentina ,reads more than

one book a week.

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Talks to plants - my grand father sometimes talks to plants

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Is trying to break a habit - my brother is trying to break habit

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Can tell a joke in English - I can tell a joke when I meet friends

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Saw a scary movie last week – Liliana saw a horror movie last week

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Goes jogging – ann always jogging one day a week-

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Usually sings in the bath – my dad most of the times sings in the bath

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 Explanation

Tense refers to the form a verb takes in a sentence, whether to express

the present, past or future.

1. Fill in each blank with the correct past tense form of the verb
provided.

Example:

PLAY We played dodgeball all afternoon.

FRY 1. We fried the fish we caught in the lake.

STUDY 2. All of us studied hard for the physics exam.

CRY 3. Mary cried on his shoulder all through the movie.

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MARRY 4. She married_ him on Tuesday and played slots that night.

TRY 5. Fred tried to get in the concert by posing as a security

guard.

SHOP 6. I shoopped_ for all of my birthday presents at the art

fair.

ADMIT 7. No one admitted_ that he was tired.

PLAN 8. Marty and Isabel plannwd their marriage simply and

loosely.

TERRIFY 9. The fireworks terrified the younger children.

COMPILE 10. The assistants compiled the materials into a great

handbook.

Simple Past Tense

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 In each of the following sentences, color any verbs that should
have –ed or –d endings and supply the missing letters. Watch
for time expressions (last week, yesterday, years ago) that indicate past
time.

incorrect: The committee vote yesterday.

correct: The committee voted yesterday.

1. The driver asked for the exact fare last week.

2. Oliver used to live in Berkeley when he was a college student.

3. Katerina studied all the time and so she graduated from college last
year.
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4. College students are supposed to attend every class meeting.

5. Last Sunday, Laura listened to the drummers in the park.

6. Until I started school, I worked twenty hours per week and studied
the rest of the time.

7. Finally Gayle’s cat returned home.

8. Several years ago I witnessed a crime and identified the criminal.

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 Use the perfect tense to fill in the blank using the same time
period (past, present, future) as the sample.

Example: Joan cooks chiken on mondays. (present tense)

Joan has cooked chicken for five months (present

perfect tense)

(Remember: Perfect tenses for the verb to run are:

Present: she has run
Past: she had run
Future: she will have run)

1. Eric took piano lessons.

Eric has taken piano lessons since he was ten years old.
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2. Tara raises as many children as she can.

Tara has raisen as many children as she can.

3. Bill, on the other hand, will join the Coast Guard.

Bill, on the other hand, has joinedthe Coast Guard.

4. Alyssa gives a drawing to each of her friends.

Alyssa has given a drawing to each of her friends.

5. Chickens pecked at bugs and fruit in the garden.

Chickens have pecked at bugs and fruit in the garden.

6. Each egg will travel a thousand miles before it lands on her lap.

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 Each egg has traveled a thousand miles before it lands

on her lap.

7. The wings had plenty of room to spread.

The wings have had plenty of room to spread.

8. Madison collects the hay in the morning after breakfast.

Madison has collected the hay in the morning after breakfast.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Period (present, past, future). Avoid the perfect tense for this exercise.

Example: Martians land on the planet Earth. (present)

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Martians are landing on the planet

Earth. (present progressive)

(Remember: Progresssive tenses for the verb to run are:

Present: she is running
Past: she was running
Future: she will be running)

Turn into Present Continuous

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1. He enjoys his flowers, vegetables and herbs.

He enyoying_ his flowers, vegetables and herbs.

2. The pumpkins ripened too long last year.

The pumpkins ripening too long last year.

3. His friends will call at the next holiday or break.

His friends are calling marco at the next holiday or break.

4. Ferdinand answers the phone saying “What?”

Ferdinand anwering the phone saying “What?”

5. He screened his calls last week to avoid bill collectors.

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He screening his calls last week to avoid bill collectors.

6. His money goes under his mattress until he needs it.

His money going under his mattress until he needs it.

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Exercise 5: What have they been doing?

Complete the sentences with the present perfect simple or the present

perfect continuous.

Jane has been writing (write) a letter to a magazine. She hasn't finished

it yet.

1. Ben looking_(look) for his pen-knife, but he hasn't found it yet.

2. Jenny waiting (wait) for the bus for half an hour, but it hasn't arrived

yet.

3. Nick playing (play) a computer game for two hours and he's still
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playing.

4. Mike hasn't finished painting his car yet. He working(work) on it for two

weeks.

5. Amanda _hans nt come_(not come) home yet. She has been

shopping in town since 10 o'clock.

6. Mike's car making (make) strange noises. Nick and Jane have

cleaned all the parts.

7. Ben has been drawing cartoons for two hours. He hanst finished (not

finished) yet.

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 8. Amanda has been waiting for Jenny in town. Jenny hasn’t

arrived (not arrive) yet.

9. Jane has been knitting a pullover. She (just finish) it.

10. It raining (rain) all day and it hasn't stopped yet.

11. Mr Blake has been marking tests all evening but he hasn’t (not find)

a perfect one yet.

12. Trig practicing (practise) the present perfect, but he hasn't got it

right.

Think of a job or activity that youSecond

have started but have not finished, for
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example, something that you are making, reading or drawing. Write a
short paragraph about it. Say how long you have been doing it.

GRAMMAR WITH LAUGHTER Present Perfect / Past Simple

Using the Present Perfect or the Past Simple, complete the following
jokes:
1. Have you .ever been. (be) to America before?
No. This is my first time.
Did you know that Christopher Columbus found (find) America?
Really? I never knew it was lost!

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 2. When you sold (sell) me this car this morning, you said (say)
it was trouble-free. Since then, the brakes .failed (fail) and
the door fell (fall) off.
Well, sir, I did sell you the car but the trouble was free!

Do you dream?

Do you dream? Let me tell you about a

dream I had two nights ago. I hadn't been
dreaming for a long long time, in fact since
last Christmas. Have you noticed my use of
ago, for and since? Send me a message
for help if you don't understand the use of
the Past Perfect Continuous tense in the
third
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Anyway, it was a terrible nightmare. Terrible

things were done to me: I was robbed, then
I was beaten, and finally I was killed. But
then the nightmare changed into a beautiful
dream: I seemed to be in some sort of paradise, where all the people
were very beautiful and nice, and I was constantly being hugged and
kissed. Have you spotted all the verbs in the passive voice?

I was taken to their leader, who looked a bit like Elizabeth Shue (have
you seen Leaving Las Vegas?) and asked me about a million questions:
who I was, where I came from, etc.; and after I had told her what had
happened to me, she asked me whether my attackers had stolen
anything from me, what they looked like and how I had been killed.
Check the use of tenses in these indirect questions!

Then only I noticed that this was a community of women and that I was
the only man there. Their leader told me that if I had been a woman I

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 could have stayed with them and become a member of their
community. But since I was a man, I had to go back to my own
country. And I remember waking up with these thoughts on my mind:
What would it be like if I were a woman? Would I have completely
different thoughts and feelings? Note the use of tenses in the if-
sentences.

And now it's your turn. Please tell us about a dream of yours, but make
sure your account includes examples of at least 4 grammatical structures
that we have practised in this course (just as my little essay contains
examples of sentences with ago, for and since, passive constructions,
indirect questions and if-sentences).

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