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GRAMMAR

SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Simple Past - Negative
1. PRACTICE: Making negatives. Make the following sentences negative. Then
give the right information.
Example:
plays.

Shakespeare wrote songs.

Shakespeare didnt write songs. He wrote

1. Christopher Columbus discovered India.

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Leonardo da Vinci lived in Brazil.
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4. The Americans landed on the moon in the nineteenth century.
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5. France won the last football World Cup.
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6. Last night I had grass for dinner.
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SIMPLE PAST: Short Answer

2. PRACTICE: Write short answers to the questions.
Example:

Was Fatih Sultan Mehmet born in Adana?

Did she conquer Istanbul in 1453?

No, he wasnt.
Yes, she did.

1. Did Turgut Ozal die in 1985?

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2. Is Suleyman Demirel 90 years old?
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3. Does he still work?
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4. Does he have fifty chickens?
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5. Did he start political life in 1986?
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6. Did your father start selling chickens in 1987? ____________________________________
7. Does your mother usually work ten hours a day?
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8. Do you usually go shopping after school?
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SIMPLE PAST- SIMPLE PRESENT- PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

3. PRACTICE: Put the correct form of the verbs given in brackets.
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Look at these children! They _____________ (dance) very well.

I _____________ (not-drink) a cup of coffee yesterday morning.
On Saturdays, my sister and I _____________ (go) shopping.
Two months ago my sister and I _____________ (be) in Istanbul.
Whats John doing in the garden? He _____________ (mend) his bicycle.
They always play cards but today they _____________ (listen) to music.
My brother usually _____________ (visit) his friends once a week.
Mr. Brown _____________ (write) a letter to his friend last night.
George is absent today because he _____________ (be) ill.
She _____________ (clean) her bedroom every morning.
He usually _____________ (not-go) for a walk on Fridays.
Mrs. Green is in the kitchen but she _____________ (not-make) a cake.

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Jane and Mandy _____________ (not-be) at the cinema yesterday.

What time _____________ you _____________ (go) to school every day?
What time _____________you _____________go) to bed last night?
_____________she_____________ (play) the guitar at the moment?
When _____________you_____________ (go) to school every day?
John _____________ (not-do) his homework last week.
Where were you last night? I _____________ (be) at home.
My sister _____________ (listen) to the news at the moment.

W/H QUESTIONS
SIMPLE PAST- TO BE PAST- SIMPLE PRESENT4. PRACTICE: Fill in the blanks with Who, What, Where, Why, Which, When
or How
Susan:
Hi, Tim. _______________ are you?
Tim: Not bad. _______________ was your holiday?
Susan:
Fantastic.
Tim: Oh! _______________ did you do?
Susan:
I went home for Bayram Holiday.
Tim: _______________ is home?
Susan:
Ankara.
Tim: _______________ long did you go for?
Susan:
I spent a wonderful week there.
Tim: _______________ did you leave?
Susan:
I left on October 27th.
Tim: _______________ did you do in Ankara?
Susan:
I saw my family and friends and visited all my favorite places.
Tim: _______________ far is it to Ankara?
Susan:
It's five and a half hours by bus.
Tim: _______________ did your take ticket?
Susan:
I took from Varan.
Tim: _______________ didn't you take from Metro?
Susan:
Because there wasnt any ticket.
Tim: _______________ did you get back?
Susan:
I got back yesterday.
Tim: _______________ met you at the bus station?
Susan:
My brother met me.
Tim: _______________ did you do on Bayram morning?
Susan:
We had a big celebration at my parents house.
Tim: _______________ attended the party?
Susan:
My whole family came. Everybody was there except for my sister. She
couldn't come.
Tim: Not? Was she?
Susan:
She was in another city.
Tim: _______________ city was she in?
Susan:
In Konya

5. PRACTICE: Fill in the blanks with What, When or Where

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_________ is the name of the President of Turkey?

_________did Neil Armstrong say when he first landed on the moon?
_________ did the Americans drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
_________ is that called in English?
_________are the Hawaiian Islands?

6. PRACTICE: Write on the blank: how, when, what or where and then make
questions
For example:
Derrick runs quickly to his school. ___How___ How does Derrick run
to his school?
1. Pamela speaks slowly.
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2. Janet is sitting in front of Murat.
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3. Pat arrived early today.
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4. Karen and Simon drive dangerously.
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5. Sharon usually laughs at my jokes.
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6. Ishmael types quickly.
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7. I went to school on my bike yesterday.
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8. Joseph is beside Adam.
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9. He sometimes calls me at home.
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10. Your friend answers carefully.
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7. PRACTICE: Write questions for these answers.

Example : Where was your teacher born?
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6.

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In England.

In Perth, Australia.
She went there in 1985.
Shes an artist.
In 1986.
Because she loves them. She has twenty-five!
About ten, usually.

SIMPLE PAST ORAL EXERCISE

8. PRACTICE: Study the following examples AND answer the questions
Jane went to the cinema yesterday. 1
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1. Did she go to the cinema?
2. When did she go to the cinema?
3. Where did she go yesterday?
4. What did she do yesterday?
5. Who went to the cinema yesterday?

(Yes, she did.)

(Yesterday.)
(To the cinema.)
(She went to the cinema.)
(Jane did.)

1. The children played football in the park on Sunday.

Did they play football in the park on Sunday?
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When did they play football in the park?
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Where did they play football on Sunday?
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What did they play in the park on Sunday?

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What did they do in the park on Sunday?
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Who played football in the park on Sunday?
2. I didn't watch TV last night.
Did you watch TV last night?
When didn't you watch TV?
Which night didn't you watch TV?
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What didn't you watch last night?
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What didn't you do last night?
Who didn't watch TV last night?
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3. Tony wasn't at school last week.
Was(n't) he at school last week?
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When wasn't he at school?
Where wasn't he last week?
Who wasn't at school last week?
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ORAL EXERCISE
9. PRACTICE: Put as many questions as you can:
My mother made a chocolate cake on Saturday.
1. Did
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2. When _________________________________________?
3. What _________________________________________?
4. What kind of cake _______________________________?
5. What ____________ do __________________________?
6. Who __________________________________________?
1. Dora went to the bank yesterday afternoon.
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2. I slept in my brothers room last night.
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3. Grandfather was in Antalya on Tuesday.
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4. The girls weren't at home in the morning.
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5. Osman washed his car in the rain at the weekend.
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6. I didn't see the red car in our street last week.
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ORAL EXERCISE
10. PRACTICE: Answer these questions; write long answer.
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When did you get up yesterday?

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What did you do after you got up?
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Did you go to the bathroom first?
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Did you clean your teeth?
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Did you have breakfast yesterday?
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What did you have for breakfast?
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Did you drink tea or coffee yesterday morning?
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What did you do after breakfast?
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What time did you go to school/work?

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How many lessons did you have yesterday?
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When did you come home from school?
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When did you have lunch yesterday?
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Where did you have lunch?
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What did you have for lunch?
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What did you do in the afternoon?
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Did you have homework yesterday?
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Did you go out in the evening?
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Where did you go?
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Did you watch TV last night?
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What was on TV last night?
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What time did you go to bed?
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Did you read a book in bed?
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How much did you sleep last night?
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Where did you spend the weekend?
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Did you stay at home?
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Did you do any sports at the weekend?
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What sports did you do?
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Did you do any housework?
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Did you go on holiday last year?
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Where did you go? How far away is it?
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How did you go?
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Did you go by train or bus? Did you fly?
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Where did you stay?
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Did you stay at a hotel? Did you stay with friends?
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Was your room comfortable?
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Was there a TV in your room?
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Did you have any books to read?
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38. What was the food like?

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Did you eat anything special?
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How long did you stay there?
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Did you have a good time?
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Did you swim in the sea?
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Did you go to the mountains?
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Did you see interesting places?
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What did you see?
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What did you do in the evenings?
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SIMPLE PAST- READING

1. READING
Fill in the gaps with the Past Simple form of the verbs in brackets. There
are regular and irregular verbs. Example:
Leonardo da Vinci lived (live) in Italy in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. He was a student in Florence, where he (1)
_____________ (study) painting, sculpture and design. He (2)
_____________ (begin) a lot of paintings, but he (3) _____________
(not finish) many of them. His picture of the Mona Lisa is the
most famous portrait in the world. Leonardo (4) _____________
(be) interested in many things. He (5) _____________ (want) to
know about everything he saw. He examined the human body. He (6)
_____________ (think) that the sun (7) _____________ (not go) round the earth. He (8)
_____________ (write) music. He designed a flying machine 400 years before the first one
flew. Many people (9) _____________ (not understand) his ideas. It is difficult to think that
one man (10) _____________ (can) do so much.

2. READING
Swimming
1 When I was a boy, I liked swimming very much. One year my two brothers and I spent
the summer holidays
2 with my uncle and aunt in their house by the sea. It was only twenty meters from the
water. Every day we put on

3 our swimming shorts before breakfast, ran down to the sea across the sand and
jumped in. From then until late at
4 night, we were in the sea or on the beach most of the time.
5 When our aunt rang a bell, we went back to the house for food, but we ate it in our
swimming shorts and were
6 soon back in the sea again.
7 The sea was warm , the sun shone every day, and on most days there were no waves. In
the middle of the day a
8 wind always began to blow, but it was not strong and did not make the sea rough.
9 Three times during our holiday we had strong winds. They blew the sand against our
legs when we ran down to
10 the sea, and made big waves with white tops. We were all very good swimmers. We
dived through the waves or
11 rode towards the beach on top of them until we were tired and hungry.
Answer the following referral questions according to the passage.

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What does it (line 2) refer to?

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What does it (line 5) refer to?

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What does they (line 9) refer to?

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What does we (line 9) refer to?

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What does them (line 11) refer to?

_____________
Choose the correct sentence according to the reading passage.
1.
a) The boys home was near the sea.
b) The boys uncles home
was near the sea.
c) Their uncles home was a long way from the sea.
d) Their uncles home
was far away from the sea.
2.
a) The boys had breakfast on the beach.
b) The boys didnt have
breakfast.
c) The boys had breakfast in the house.
d) The boys had
breakfast in the sea.
3.
a) The boys put on their swimming shorts before breakfast.
b) The boys put other
clothes on before each meal.
c) The boys didnt change their clothes before meals.
d) The boys put on their
swimming shorts on the beach.
4.
a) There was a wind every day.
b) There was a wind on
three times.
c) There was a wind on most days.
d) There was a wind
every morning.
5.
a) The boys went to the beach every day.
b) The boys didnt go to
the beach every day.
c) The boys went to the beach only in the mornings.
d) The boys went to the
beach only in the afternoons.

3. READING

Movies
Everybody loves movies. We see them at cinemas, and we watch them on television.
They are popular with children and adults, too. We learn from them, or we can have a good
time watching them. They are a wonderful invention.
We also call movies motion pictures. Motion is a noun for moving. People tried
to show motion in pictures for centuries. Even prehistoric artists showed animals running in
their cave pictures.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, several Europeans and Americans tried to
make movies. No one knows who made the first one. New York city had the first movies
theatre in 1894. People put money in a small machine and looked into it at the movie. By
1900, movies were popular all over Europe and the United States. They were not very
good, but people liked them because they were new and different.
Every year people invented ways to make movies better. They invented machines to
show the pictures on a screen. Then everyone could see the motion pictures on the front
wall of a theatre instead of inside a small machine. In 1927, inventors added sound to
movies. Then they added color.
Today it costs several million dollars to make a movie. However, movie makers
collect millions of dollars from people at movie theatres because everyone loves movies.
A. True / False: Write (T) if the sentence is True and (F) if it is False.

1.

___Children like movies but

2.

___An American made the first

3.

___Movies became popular in

4.

___Inventors first added color

adults dont.

movie.

Europe at the end of the sixteenth century.

and, later, sound to movies.

5.

___It is expensive to make

movies.
B. Find the words or expressions from the text above which gives the same
meaning.

1.
2.

films (paragraph 1) _______________________________________________________

make or design something new (paragraph 4)

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3.

bring together (paragraph 5) _______________________________________________

4. READING
A Private Conversation
Last week I went to the theatre. I had a very good seat. The play
was very interesting. I did not enjoy it. A young man and a young
woman were sitting behind me. They were talking loudly. I got
very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned round. I looked at

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the man and the woman angrily. They did not pay any attention. In the end, I could not
bear it.
I turned round again. 'I can't hear a word!' I said angrily.
'It's none of your business,' the young man said rudely. 'This is a private conversation!
Answer these questions:
1. Where did the writer go last week?
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2. Did he enjoy the play or not?
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3. Who was sitting behind him?
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4. Were they talking loudly, or were they talking quietly?
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5.Could the writer hear the actors or not?
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6. Did he turn round or not?
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7. What did he say?
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8. Did the young man say, 'The play is not interesting.' or did he say, 'This is a private
conversation!?
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5. READING

I never get up early.

It was Sunday. I never get up early on Sundays. I sometimes stay
in bed until lunch time. Last Sunday I got up very late. I looked out
of the window. It was dark outside. 'What a day!' I thought. 'It's
raining again.' Just then, the telephone rang. It was my aunt Lucy. '
I've just arrived by train,' she said. 'I'm coming to see you.'
'But I'm still having breakfast,' I said.
'What are you doing?' she asked.
'I'm having breakfast,' I repeated.
'Dear me,' she said. 'Do you always get up so late ? It's one
o'clock!'
Answer these questions
1. Does the writer always get up early on Sundays, or does he
always get up late?
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2. Did he get up early last Sunday, or did he get up late?
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3. Who telephoned then?
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4. Had she arrived by train, or had she come on foot?
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5. Was she coming to see him or not?
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6. Did he say, 'I'm still having breakfast', or did he say, 'I am still in bed'?
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7. Was his aunt very surprised or not?
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8. What was the time?

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6. READING
Football or Polo?
The Wayle is a small river that cuts across the park near my
home. I like sitting by the Wayle on fine afternoons. It was warm
last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual. Some
children were playing games on the bank and there were some
people rowing on the river. Suddenly, one of the children kicked a
ball very hard and it went towards a passing boat. Some people
on the bank called out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear
them. The ball struck him So hard that he nearly fell into the
water. I turned to look at the children, but there weren't any in
sight: they had all run away! The man laughed when he realized
what had happened. He called out to the children and threw the
ball back to the bank.
Answer these questions in not more than 70 words.
1.Did the writer sit by the river last Sunday or not?
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2.Were some children playing games nearby or not?
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3.Who kicked a ball hard? Where did it go? (and)
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4.Did the ball hit the man or not? What did the children do? (and)
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5.Was the man angry or not? Where did he throw the ball? (However, . . . and)
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7. READING
Success Story
Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his
experiences as a young man. Frank is now the head of a very
large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small
shop. It was his job to- repair bicycles and at that time he used to
work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1938
he bought a small work-shop of his own. During the war Frank
used to make spare parts for airplanes. At that time he had two
helpers. By the end of the war, the small work-shop had become a
large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight
people. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years
and the long road to success. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came
in. She wanted him to repair their son's bicycle!
Answer these questions.
1. What was Frank Hawkins telling the writer about?
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2. Where did Frank use to work as a boy ?
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3. What did he use to do there?
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4. When did he buy his own shop ? What did he make during the war ? (and)
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5. Did he employ a lot of people by the end of the war or not ?

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6. Who came into the room after a while ?
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7. W hat did she want him to repair ?
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8. READING
Percy Buttons
I have just moved to a house in Bridge Street. Yesterday a beggar knocked at my door. He
asked me for a meal and a glass of beer. In return for this, the beggar stood on his head
and sang songs. I gave him a meal. He ate the food and drank the beer. Then he put a
piece of cheese in his pocket and went away. Later a neighbor told me about him.
Everybody 10 knows him. His name is Percy Buttons. He calls at every house in the street
once a month and always asks for a meal and a glass of beer.
Answer these questions.
1. Has the writer just moved to a house in Bridge Street or not?
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2. Who knocked at her door yesterday?
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3. Did he sing songs, or did he ask for money?
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4. What did the writer give him in return to this?
___________________________________________________________________________________
5. What is the beggar's name?
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6. Does he call at every house once a week or once a month?
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9. READING
Mahatma Gandi
Mahatma Gandi was born in India in 1869. He became one of his countrys leaders. Life
was difficult when he was young. He got married at the age of thirteen; a common
custom in India at that time. He studied law at the university. He went to London and
became a lawyer. Then he returned to his country. A few years later, he went to work
in South Africa. He organised demonstrations there and they sent him to prison
several times. Twenty years later, he returned to India. There, he worked hard to help
the poor. He played a very important role in the independence of India. A fanatic killed
him in 1948.
Demonstration: political protest
Prison: jail, cell
Independence:
freedom
a. Answer the questions
1. Where was Gandi born?
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2. When was he born?

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3. Why did he get married at the age of thirteen?
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4. Why did he go to London?
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5. Where did he organise demonstrations?
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6. When did he return to India?
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7. Who did he help in India?
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8. Who killed him?
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b. What do the following refer to?
1. his country (line 3) _______________________________________________________________
2. there (line 4) ___________________________________________________________________

SIMPLE PAST/PRESENT- PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PRACTICE: Choose the best answer.
1. Rene _____ his teeth three times a day.
a. brush
b. brushed
c. brushes
d. had brushed
2. Hubert cant come to the phone right now. He _____ a shower.
a. take
b. took
c. has taken
d. is taking
3. Ingrid _____ takes a taxi to the airport. Her friends always drive her there.
a. always
b. often
c. sometimes
d. never
4. Dayme _____ comes to class on time. She is never late.
a. always
b. usually
c. rarely
d. never
5. Luis _____ his notebook before every test.
a. studying
b. studies
c. is studying
d. study
6. Victor is hungry. He _____ to eat a slice of pizza.
a.
want
b. is wanting
c. wanted
d. wants

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7. Dario: Is it raining right now?

Jose: No, _____.
a. it isnt
b. its
c. it not
d. isnt
8. Deysi: Are you studying right now? Hector: Yes, _____.
a. Im
b. I am
c. Im not
d. I am not
9. Lourdes: Does your wife play tennis?
Juan:
No, _____.
a. doesnt
b. she doesnt
c. she didnt
d. didnt
10. He is ready _____ the exam.
a. from
b. to
c. for
d. of
11.
I hope that the students didnt _____ to study for this test!!!
a. forgot
b. forget
c. were forgetting
d. was forgetting
12. Nimet _____ for nine hours last night.
a. sleep
b. sleeps
c. slept
d. is sleeping
13. Susan _____ a delicious lunch at last night.
a. ate
b. eat
c. eating
d. is eating
14.
Kelly was born _____ June 1st.
a. in
b. on
c. at
d. while
15.
When Jose slipped on the wet floor in the grocery store, he _____ down and
_____ his leg.
a. fall/hurts
b. falling/is hurting c. fell/hurt
d. fall/hurt
16.
Yesterday Eric _____ an unusual noise, so he _____ up from bed to see what
it was.
a. hears/get
b. hearded/got
c. hearing/getting
d.
heard/got
17.
Nebiyye _____ her notebook to class, so that Zehra could check her work.
a. bought
b. brought
c. bring
d. can bring
18.
Metin: _____ well last night?
Melike: Yes, I did.
a. Did you sleep b. You slept
c. Did you slept
d. You sleeping
19.
Mary: Did Arzu watch on television last night?
Tamer: No, _____. She
watched a rented movie.
a. she did
b. shed not
c. she didnt
d. shed didnt
20. Martha _____ a big party for her husband. It will be in three weeks.
a. is planning
b. is planning
c. planning
d. planning
21.
Ahmet went to bed at 11:30 p.m. last night. At 12:30 a.m., Angel _____.
a. sleeping
b. is sleeping
c. was sleeping
d. slept
22. While John _____ down the street, he _____ a beautiful woman and said
hello.
a. walk/see
b. was walking/see c. was walking/saw d. walking/saw
23.
Kerem was born _____ June.
a.
in
b. on
c. at
d. while
24. When Maria went to New York, she _____ her aunt and uncle.
a.
visit
b. visited
c. visiting
d. visits
25. While I _____ Maylin called me on the phone.
a. . was eating dinner
b. was eating dinner,
c. ate dinner
d. ate dinner,
Professor Kelly Kennedy-Isern Miami-Dade Community College 2002

SIMPLE PAST/PRESENT- PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PRACTICE: Complete the sentences, putting the verbs in brackets into the
correct form.
1. A: Look! Sue is going out. I wonder where she is going
B: Im not sure but She ____________________ (go) shopping.
2. The streets are all wet, it ____________________ (rain).
3. I dont know where Helen is she ____________________ (go) home.

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I_______________ (leave) my keys at home or I ________________(lose) them

somewhere. Im not sure.
5. Someone______________ (tell) them what we were planning to do, because they
know all about our plans.
6. A: Why didnt he answer the doorbell? Im sure he was in the house.
B: He__________________ (be) in the bath.
7. A: How do you think the fire started?
B: Im not sure. Someone __________________ (drop) a cigarette.
8. Charles didnt study for the exam. It is impossible for him to have passed the exam.
He__________________ (pass) the exam.
9. A: George didnt want to come to the cinema with us. I wonder why not?
B: He __________________ (watch) it before.
10. It is 11 oclock now. My mother is at home. She _________ (do) the cleaning
or_______(wash) the dishes.
11. When I woke up this morning, the light was on. I__________________ (forget) to turn it
off.
12. Why did you climb that tree? He was very dangerous. You __________________ (hurt)
yourself.
13. I saw someone at the theater yesterday and I thought it was your brother. It
__________________ (be)
him, because he was in Ankara yesterday
14.
Its impossible for her to have run across him in the street yesterday. He said
he hadnt gone out the day
before. She __________________ (run) across him.
15. My purse was on the table a minute ago. Now it is not there. Who __________________
(take) it?
16. She got the top mark in the class. She __________________ (work) hard.
17. A: I cant find George anywhere. Do you know where he is?
B: Im not sure but he __________________ (be) in the library.
18. He didnt answer my question. He__________________ (not/hear) your question. Im
almost sure.
19. He __________________ (come) by bus because I saw his car outside the school.
20. Tom is late again. It is possible that he __________________ (miss) the bus.
21. We didnt invite Jane to the party. __________________ we (invite) her?
22. Her television doesnt work. Im sure she __________________ (watch) TV last night.
23. What is Mary doing in her room? I dont know. She __________________ (do) her
homework.
24. A: Where is Bob?
B: Im not sure. He __________________ (have) lunch.
25.
Bill didnt have any money last week. It was impossible for him to eat out last night.
He __________________ ( eat) out last night.
26. You were late for school yesterday morning. You __________________ (not go) to bed
so late.
27. David passed the exam without studying for it. It __________________ (be) very easy.
28. Mary couldnt get a high mark in maths. She __________________ (study) much more.
29. A: Was he driving carefully?
B: No, he __________________ (drive) carefully because he caused the accident.
30. A: I looked everywhere for my umbrella yesterday but I couldnt find it. Did you see it?
31. B: It __________________ (be) in the car or you __________________ (leave) it in the
restaurant last night. I couldnt sleep until late last night. I __________________ (drink)
so much coffee.
32. A: Im looking for Helen. Do you know where she is?
B: She __________________ (watch) TV in her bedroom or she __________________ (go) out.
33. A: When she died, she left her relatives a fortune.
B: She __________________ (be) rich.
34. A: Tom has a house in London, a flat in Paris, and a bungalow in Miami.
B: He __________________ (be) rich.
35. Jim __________________ (write) this because it is in French and he doesnt know French.
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36. The exercises were very easy. The students __________________ (answer) them all.

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