Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería English 4 - Workshop

Departamento de Humanidades e Idiomas Vocabulary: survival stories

Grammar: verb tenses
Name: JULIAN TOBON – SEBASTIAN MORENO – JULIANA QUEVEDO Date: 13/08/2021

A. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

When Francis Lee was a boy he wanted to be an astronaut. He1) WAS WATCH. (watch) TV one day
in 1969 when he 2) SAW (see) Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. When he was little , every night
when there was a full moon, he 3) STARED (stare) up at it for hours and imagined himself walking
around on it. He 4) DID NOT STUDY (not study) anything but he would like to. When he was young
his parents 5) DID NOT HAVE (not have) money and he 6) WAS NOT (not be) good at school. At
the moment, however, he 7) WORKS (work) as a night-watchman at a meat factory. He 8) DID (do)
the same job for 15 years. He hopes that one day his dream will come true. He 9) HEARD (hear)
that in 2022 they 10) WILL SELL (sell) tickets to fly to the moon. For this reason he is saving half of
his wages.

B. Write questions to ask about the underlined part of the answer.

1. Q: When did Neil Amstrong walk on the moon?

A: Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969.

2. Q. How long did Francis Lee work as a watchman?

A: Francis Lee has worked as a watchman for 15 years.

3. Q: Why did Francis Lee save his salary?

A: Francis Lee saves part of his salary to go to the party.

4. When will we fly to the moon?

A: People will fly to the moon in 2022.

C. Please fill in the blanks with the correct form of the vocabulary words from page 8.
Remember to conjugate the verbs
1. An ISIS terrorist has kidnapped American Airlines MA314 and THREATENED the passengers to
crash the airplane.
2. Mitt Ronson is a true hero who RESCUED hundreds of people from some of the most
devastating earthquakes.
3.He began saving people after he SURVIVED 14 days under the debris of the building where he
lived.