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TELLLING TALES

I. Practice: Read the information and then complete the activity.

A. Complete the sentences with past

II. Grammar spot simple or past continuous of the verbs in
brackets.
The past simple is used for:
1. My younger brother ________ (go) swimming
1. Completed actions in the past
2. Completed actions that happened one every afternoon last summer.
after other in the past.
3. Past habits or repeated actions in the 2. The cat _________ (jump) onto the table,
past (often used with adverbs of
frequency) _________ (drink) the milk and _______ (fall)
4. An action in the past that interrupted a
“longer” action in progress.
asleep.

The past continuous is used for: 3. It ______________ a warm summer afternoon,

1. Temporary past states or actions and we ___________ (sunbathe) on the beach
2. An action in progress in the past that
when we _____ (hear) someone shout for help.
was interrupted by another action.
3. Simultaneous actions in progress in the
past. 4. Clair _________________ (learn) to be a pilot
Affirmative on those days.
 verb complement
5. When Linda _________ (be) thinner, she
I went to sleep
________ (often borrow) her sister’s jeans.
I was going to sleep
6. Christine ____________ (graduate) from
Negative Cardiff University in 2007.

 Negative + verb complement 7. This time last year I __________ (surf) in

We didn’t dance last night
Barbados.
We weren’t dancing last night
8. She _________ (shop) in the market when
Questions someone ______ (take) her handbag.

Auxiliar  Verb + complement

Did you play?

Were you playing?
 II. Grammar practice
Intructions: Look at the pictures. Complete the sentences with the verbs in
brackets. Use past simple or the past continuous.

1. She ______ the spider while

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1 she _________ some toys.
(see/shop)

2. His cellphone ____ while he

_________. (ring/drive)

3. Nate _______ late when his 4

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boss __________ a speech.
(arrive/make)

4. They ________ soccer when it

______ to rain. (play/start)

5. We _________ a party when

we ____ this photo. (have/take)
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6. We _______ the score when

we ______in Florida.

1. Complete the story with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets

When Alex Jones ________(arrive) at JFK’s airport, she __________ (look) but she
__________ (not see) anybody there to meet her. A lot of people _________ (hold) cards
with names on them, but they __________(not wait) for her. She_____________ (not
know) what to do, but it ___________ (be) a beautiful day, sunny day, so she__________
(decide) to go to the hotel on her own. She. ________ (go) outside and _____________
(look) for a taxi. A lot of people __________(wait), so she__________ (catch) the airport
bus into New York City . The bus ____________ (stop) in Manhattan and she___________
(get off). She ___________ (walk) into a hotel and _________ (give) her name Alexandra
Jones. She _________ (talk) to the receptionist, when suddenly a man____________ (run)
up to her. He ________________ (carry) a card that _____________ (read) “Mr.
Jones”. -“Ms. Jones? I’m terribly sorry I _______________ (wait) for you at the airport, but
I ____________ (think) you _______________ (be) a man.” - “That’s OK”,________
(say) Alex. “It happens to me all the time”
 III. Reading

a. Vocabulary
Instructions: Draw a line to match the picture to the word.

Thunders Raven Horned owl Water spider Screech owl Scorched

Burning Sycamore
Cross over snake Council Wove into
stump three

b. Vocabulary
Instructions: Write the following verbs in present.

lived flew
sent reached
held sat
came up burned out
blinded carried up
had swam
crawled fell
became spun
brought put
 c. A Mohawk legend
Look at the picture, it tells the story of the origin of the fire by an Iroquoian-
speaking Indigenous people of North America. Then, answer some questions
about it.
d. Instructions: answer the following questions.

1) Who are the main characters in the story (by order of appearance)?
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2) Who was/were looking for the fire?

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3) What happened with the raven?

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4) Do you think the story has a moral? ____ Which one?

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5) Did you know any other story about the origins of the fire?
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e. Pronunciation
/id/ /d/ /t/