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Past Progressive and Simple Past Exercises

According to the document: 1. Search engines listed results according to popularity before Google. Experts did not praise research at first. In 1988, they answered hundreds of requests from their house. 2. The document provides examples of asking and answering questions about activities using past tense verbs. 3. The passage describes the founding and growth of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg while a student at Harvard in 2004. It details some challenges he faced from other students over ownership of the ideas.

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Past Progressive and Simple Past Exercises

According to the document: 1. Search engines listed results according to popularity before Google. Experts did not praise research at first. In 1988, they answered hundreds of requests from their house. 2. The document provides examples of asking and answering questions about activities using past tense verbs. 3. The passage describes the founding and growth of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg while a student at Harvard in 2004. It details some challenges he faced from other students over ownership of the ideas.

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  • Instruction Practice: Guides students to form questions and answers based on given text examples, encouraging practice in sentence formation.
  • Verbs Exercise: Provides an exercise where students use past progressive and simple past tense by rearranging sentences related to Facebook's launch story.
  • Creative Imagining: Engages students in imagining themselves as Mark, narrating events before creating Facebook to enhance creative writing skills.

1.

Form questions and full answers based on the text, as


in the example.

 Search engines/list results/according to popularity/before google


According to popularity was searching engines list results before
google?
 Experts/ praise their research/ at first?
Was experts praise their researching at first?
 They work/from their house?
Were they working from their house?
 They answer/hundreds of requests/in1988
In 1988 Were they answering hundreds of requests

2. Use the words to ask and answer questions in pairs.

 You/walk in the park/ last Sunday afternoon?


Were you walking in the park last Sunday afternoon?
No I wasn’t, I was in the barbershop.
 You/chat on the phone/an hour ago?
Were you chatting on the phone an hour ago?
Yes, I was.
 Your friend/eat dinner/at 8 o’clock last night?
Was your friend eating dinner at 8 o’clock last night?
No, He wasn’t, he was watching TV.
 Your parents/work/last Saturday morning?
Were your parents working last Saturday morning?
Yes, they were.
3. Put the verbs in parentheses into the past progressive
or the simple past.

In the 2004, 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, 1) Launched


(Launch) Facebook while 2) studying (study) at Harvard
university. People 3) asked (ask) for a university website
with students’ profiles, so mark 4) decided (decide) to do
something about it. 1,200 students 5) singing up (sign up)
within 24 hours! He then 6) Expanded (expand) the site to
include other universities. Mark 7) Faced (face) some
difficulties, though. Three Harvard seniors 8) insisted
(insist) that while Zuckerberg 9) working (work) on a
similar project with them, he 10) used (use) their ideas to
create Facebook. This 11) Don’t stopped (not/stop) mark,
though, and Facebook soon 12) Became (become) the
biggest social networking site in the world with 500 million
users to date.
4. Imagine you are Mark. Describe the events leading up
to your creation of Facebook. Tell the class.

If I was Mark, First I have to see what the people like about
internet and socials websites, seeing this I make sure some points
about How I can start making the website so then I dedicate too
much time and work hard, everyday but taking my class seriously
too, it’s important to know first what the people like to do to take
they attention, and then start to work in the page. While I saw the
people using my website, I develop the down points of my page
making the website more famous and Stronger.

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