FIRST TERM -- ENGLISH TEST

past simple. Regular and irregular verb

Name:_______________________________ Code: _______Date:___/___/___/Grade:________ Score: ______

En las preguntas 01 – 10 marque A, B, C o D.

Gabriel García Márquez (1)______ born in 1927 in the small town of Aracataca, (2)______ in a tropical
region of northern Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea.
He originally (3)_________ to become a journalist. He (4)_______ writing at the age of
eighteen. His first books (5)_______ based on his life.
In 1954 he (6) _____ to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he
lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a more or less compulsory
exile. Besides his large output of fiction he (7) _________ screenplays and continued
to work as a journalist. He was the greatest Colombian writer.
He was best known for his novels -One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
His books were mainly about satire, solitude, magic realism, realism, and violence. He won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in December 1982.
Márquez wrote his last book in 2004. He (8) ________ in May 2008 because of his age and health.
Since 2012, Márquez was sick with Alzheimer's disease. He (9) _________ with his wife, Mercedes Barcha in
Mexico City. Márquez (10)_______ in Mexico City from pneumonia. He were/was 87 years old.

1 A. were B. are C. beed D. was

2 A. locatd B. locatied C. located D. locate
3 A. estudyed B. studied C. study D. studyed
4 A. started B. starts C. startd D. startyed
5 A. am B. were C. is D. was
6 A. gon B. go C. went D. goed
7 A. write B. writd C. wroted D. wrote
8 A. retireed B. retird C. retired D. retire
9 A. lieved B. lived C. live D. livd
10 A. die B. died C. dieed D. die
Responda las preguntas 11 – 16 acerca del texto. Escriba oraciones completas.
11. Where was Gabriel Garcia Marquez born?
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12. When did he start to write?
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13. What prize he win?
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14. Who is Mercedes Barcha?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
15. Why did he go to Roma?
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16. When did he die?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
17. lea el texto, complete los espacios en blanco con la forma correcta del verbo en paréntesis en pasado simple .

RESPONDA LAS PREGUNTAS 18-25 DE ACUERDO AL TEXTO ANTERIOR

Escoge la respuesta correcta.

18. What is the text about?

a) Nelson Mandela`s life b) the president of North Africa c) the assassination of Nelson Mandela

responde con oraciones completas

19. When was Nelson Mandela born?

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20. What did he study?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
21. when did he become in president of ANC?
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22. when did he leave of prison?
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Responde T (verdadero) or F (falso) si las oraciones son verdaderas o falsas. Si es falsa escribe la verdadera

23. Nelson Mandela is alive. T F __________________________________________________

24. Nelson Mandela died in prison. T F ___________________________________________________

25. Nelson Mandela was interested in politics. T F _________________________________________________

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26: Cuales son las partes de la oración____________________________________________________________
Example: ___________________________________________________________________
27. ¿Cúal es la diferencia entre los verbos regulares y los verbos irregulares en inglés?
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28. El pasado de los verbos regulares se forma al agregar _______ al final del verbo.
Example: ____________________________________________________________________________________
29. Complete el cuadro. Coloque el verbo en la casilla correspondiente de acuerdo a su terminación.

Regular verb “D” “ED” ”IED” español

Plan
Arrive
Visit
Enjoy
Cook
Stay
Carry
Enter
Listen
Study

30. ¿Qué auxiliares utilizamos para las oraciones negativas en pasado simple?.
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Example. ______: ______________________________________________________________________________

______: ______________________________________________________________________________
31. escribe la estructura que utilizamos para formar oraciones interrogativas en pasado simple.
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Example: _______________________________________________________________________________

32. Complete el cuadro de los verbos irregulares

INFINITIVE PAST ESPAÑOL INFINITVE PAST ESPAÑOL

33. escribe los pronombres (inglés) correspondientes en cada cuadro. Traducir.

Tercera persona singulares plurales