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Answer, save as PDF, and deliver today. If there are mistakes, your teacher will mark
them. Correct the document and deliver it again as PDF by Sundar, November 22
before 1:00pm.
I. Although irregular past participles don’t follow the usual rules, there are still many
patterns. See if you can figure out the past participles for these words:
III. For each sentence, write if it is in simple past, present, or present perfect.
We’ve watched the first chapter but not the second. present perfect
The dog has finished every bone! present perfect
I’ve liked all the Mexican food so far! present perfect
He learned a lot when he went to Spain last year. past
They ate a whole cake yesterday. past
IV. Look at the chart and fill in the gaps with the past simple or present perfect simple
of the verb in brackets to make true sentences.
The chart shows the percentage of British adults who _have shopped_ (shop) online
since 2000.
The number of women who have ever shopped online has increased (increase) by
more than 60% since 2000.
The percentage of men who have used the Internet to shop online _rose__ (rise) to 61%
in 2010.
The number of women who have shopped online rose (rise) each year.
The percentage of men who used the Internet to shop online was (be) greater than the
percentage of women from 2000 to 2010.
However, British women have overtaken (overtake) British men in online shopping since
2010.
The total number of people shopping online has grown(grow) each year although the
most significant rise occurred (occur) between 2000 and 2005.
V. Complete the article about Adele using the verbs from the tables. Decide if the
verbs should be written in either the past simple or present perfect tenses:
Adele (1988 ~ )
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born in 1988 in London, England. She (a) __has had_____ a
passion for music and (b) _sang_ since an early age. As a child, she (c) __ popular music,
but when she was 15 years old, she (d) _heard____ Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald in a
local music store and (e) __became_____ interested in old singers from the 1940s.
Because of her interest in music, Adele went to a special high school where she (f)
could focus on singing and songwriting. While at school, Adele (g) composed (h) recorded
three songs for a class project and then (i) put the songs on the Internet. Because of this,
four months after she graduated from high school, Adele (j) signed to a record deal.
Her debut album, “19”, (k) named for her age when she (l) began recording the project, (m)
made Adele famous, thanks to the singles “Hometown Glory” and “Chasing Pavements”.
In 2011, Adele (n) continue with “21”, selling 352,000 copies within its first week. The
album, featuring the singles “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone like You”, (o) __sold over
30 million copies around the world.
Her next studio album, “25”, (p) released in November 2015. It (q) taken selling only ten
days to sell over a million copies, becoming the fastest album ever to do so in the UK. Since
then, it has continued to sell well. As of January, 2016, “25” (r) _sold over seven million
copies.
Adele (s) released three studio albums and eleven singles. She (t) winner ten Grammy
Awards.