Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería English 4 - Workshop

Departamento de Humanidades e Idiomas Vocabulary: survival stories

Grammar: verb tenses
Name:_______________________________________Date:______________________________

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

When Francis Lee was a boy he wanted to be an astronaut. He1) WATCHED. (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) DOES NOT HAVE (not have) money and he 6)___________________(not be) good
at school. At the moment, however, he 7) ………………..…….(work) as a night-watchman at a meat
factory. He 8) ……………………………. (do) the same job for 15 years. He hopes that one day his dream
will come true. He 9)…………………..…… (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:___ __________________________________________?
A: Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969.

2. Q. ______?
A: Francis Lee has worked as a watchman for 15 years.

3. Q:__________________?
A: Francis Lee saves part of his salary to go to the party.

4. ________?
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 THREATEN the passengers to crash
the airplane.
2. Mitt Ronson is a true hero who RESCUE hundreds of people from some of the most devastating
earthquakes.
3.He began saving people after he SURVIVES 14 days under the debris of the building where he
lived.