UNIVERSIDAD LAICA ELOY ALFARO DE MANABI

ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING CAREER

ENGLISH LEVEL THREE

STUDENT NAME: Bryan Josué Rodríguez Mendoza

PROFESSOR NAME: LIC. LIDER LANCHE. MSc

TOPIC: Grammar Past continuos tense.

ACTIVITY: Read the text on page 18 of your English book, do the activities

to practice. After to read the text about right place wrong things, write your

own experience where you had a bad experience in a holliday, you can follow

the three tests as an example.

DATE: February 16

EXTENSIÓN EL CARMEN CITY. SEMESTER TIME 2020-2

 Grammar Past Continuos

a) Look at the photos. Where are they? b) Read the text and match paragraphs
What do you think is happening? 1-3 with the photographs.

Harry Benson spent 50 years taking

A 2
dramatic and memorable photograph for
national newspaper and magazines. Here
he talks about three of his best-known
pictures.

1. I took this picture on Aug. 9th He was

saying goodbye to his cabinet and the

B 3 White House staff after the

‘Watergate’ scandal. All his family
were standing round him. You can see
from their faces what they were
feeling.
2. In 1989, I was working in London
when suddenly I heard the news that
C 1 the Russians were planning to make
Berlin an open city. So I got on a plane.
When I arrived in Berlin many people
were attacking the wall with stones.
The woman in the photo was shouting:
“I hate it!”.
3. When I took this photo we were in a
hotel room in Paris in John and Paul
were at the piano and it seemed that
nothing was happening. But suddenly
they became completely focused. First
the melody came, then the words. They
were composing their song I feel fine.
c) Read the text again. Cover them and try to remember. What was happening when
he took the photos?

When he took the photo in Berlin, people were attacking wall and a woman was shouting.

d) Look at the highlighted verbs in paragraph. What tense are they? What’s the
difference?

Was Saying (use in singular I, he, she)

Were Standing (use in plural You, they)

Were Feeling (use in plural You, they)

e) After to read the text about right place wrong things, write your own experience
where you had a bad experience in a holliday, you can follow the three tests as an
example.

San lorenzo anecdote

In 2018, we were with my girlfriend for a walk through San Lorenzo (beach), when suddenly
we saw a little dog that was falquito and it gave us a bit of pain, we gave him something to
eat and drink, then he moved away and we felt Well, after that we went to bathe and then ate.

PS: I did not want to take photos