ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Worksheet N° ___5___
11th Grade 2023
Colegio Bajo Molle

Name: Class:

Objectives:
 Identify and use vocabulary related to the house in context.
 Complete texts to describe past events.
Unit 2: “Home Sweet Home”.
Vocabulary Related to the House; Past Forms (Past Simple vs Past Continuous).

II. Choose the best alternative to complete the sentences:

1. My ___________ is pretty cold because it is 2. That beautiful house was designed by a

in the underground part of the house. famous _____________.

a) Curve a) Central heating

b) Basement b) Damage
c) Architect c) Architect
3. My parents have a small _____________ in Pica. 4. The kitchen floor is all ______________.
We go there every summer. We need to repair it.

a) Cottage a) Temperature
b) Block of flats b) Microwave
c) Curve c) Damaged
 III. Read carefully and complete the sentences using the vocabulary from the Unit:

1. I will buy an apartment in those ____________________. I like it there because it only has 5
floors.
2. A __________________ system is used to heat an entire building.
3. We go to our grandparents’ ___________________ every summer. It is in the countryside,
and they have a lot of animals there.
4. I don’t like living in a _________________________ because I can hear my neighbors
through the walls!
5. My friend Barbara lives in a ________________________. I don’t know which house is hers,
they all look the same!

IV. Choose the best alternative to complete the sentences:

1. A correct sentence in the Past Simple is: 2. A correct sentence in the Past Continuous is:

a) She didn’t do the homework. a) I were cooking in the kitchen at 8 o’clock

b) She didn’t did the homework. yesterdar.
c) She wasn’t doing the homework. b) She was cooking in the kitchen at 8 o’clock
yesterday.
c) I cooked in the kitchen at 8 0’clock yerterday.
3. At ten o’clock yesterday, Daniel ____________ 4. My dad _________ up very early this
his car when they cut off the water supply. morning.

a) washing a) got
b) washed b) It’s getting
c) was washing c) was getting

5. Fernando ______________ off his bike last 6. I ___________ a shower when my mom
weekend. ____________ me on the phone.

a) was falling a) had - calls

b) falls b) was having - called
c) fell c) having - Call

VI. Read carefully and complete the text using PAST SIMPLE and PAST CONTINUOUS:

Tom: I 1. ____________________ (visit) my old friends from school last week.

Sara: That sounds fun. What 2. __________ you _______________ (do)?
Tom: We 3. ____________________ (watch) a horror movie and yes it was very fun because while they
4. ___________________ (cry), I 5. ____________________ (laugh) out loud.
Sara: You’re such a mean man. I don’t want to know anything about horror movies.
I 6. ____________________ (sleep) last night when I 7. __________________ (hear) noises
downstairs. Thank God it was my dog playing around.
Irregular verbs practice: