ENGLISH V

UNIT 2
Name of the student:
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Semester, group and area:
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I. Study what Informative Texts are in the following chart.

II. Read the following words and phrases.

1. Sinkhole, hole Hoyo

2. Mound Montículo, colina
3. Look on Observar
4. Sadness Tristeza
5. Witness Atestiguar
6. On the verge of A punto de, al borde de
7. Swallow up Tragar
8. Move into Mudarse a
9. Put your body and soul into Dedicarse en cuerpo y alma
10.Be forced to Ser forzado a, ser obligado a
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 11. Abandon Abandonar
12. To the side of A lado de
III. Read an extract from a newspaper article about a sinkhole that
appeared in Mexico’s Puebla State.

IV. Focus on the following sentence from the newspaper article. Then,
answer the question.

Xalamihua, her husband and their two children had only just moved into
the house when they were forced to abandon it.

What verb tense is used in the sentence in blue?

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V. Watch the video “Past Perfect – The love story of James and Jessica”
and complete the story.
James and Jessica met in a restaurant in 2009. They
immediately began hanging out and they fell in love. So he
decided to propose to her. Jessica accepted his proposal and
they got married in 2010. James _______________
_______________ alone before the day he
_______________ Jessica. They _______________ living
together after they _______________ _______________
married. They were very happy together. Their first child
was born 8 months later. Jessica _______________ already
_______________ pregnant by the time they
_______________ married. Today they have 2 kids and a
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 VI. Based on the examples from the story. Think about the rules to form
the Past Perfect.

VII.
Go
Past Perfect
Affirmative Sentences

Simple Past Sentence

James had lived alone before the day he met Jessica.
to your lists of regular and irregular verbs and focus on the past
participle form. Then, write in your notebook the two different lists.

VIII. Read the following Past Perfect sentences and translate them into
Spanish.

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Note: To form negative past perfect sentences you have to use the negative hadn’t (had not).

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Note: To form past perfect questions you have to use had + subject + participle verb…

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IX. Complete the sentences adding had or hadn´t and the past participle
verbs.