LISTENING, WRITING

AND SPEAKING PRACTICE

SIMPLE PAST VS PAST CONTINUOUS

 1. LISTENING and WRITING
Listen to the podcasts and complete the texts.
The audios are sent to the whatsapp group.

Then complete the second text using your own

words to summarize the information.

Send the group presentation TO MY MAIL.

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1 MAN: A teenagers’ soccer game in Australiaappeared
look an unexpected turn on took an unexpected turn on Saturday
when an escaped bull decided to join the game.

The players were running toward the goal when the bull charged the field. It began chasing the 14-year-old boy
who had the ball.

Luckily, the boy was fast, and managed to get out of the way.

Apparently bored with the soccer game, the bull left the field as suddenly as it had entered it, leaving players
and viewers shocked at what they had just witnessed.

In your words:
This situation happened on Saturday. Two soccer teams were playing a match when a bull
appeared the field. The bull followed a boy who had the ball but the boy ran .
The viewers were surprised everything and they were shocked.
 
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2 WOMAN: A 19-year-old by the name of Matt is lucky to be alive and well. Matt was watching TV
at his grandmother’s home in Missouri last Thursday when a terrible storm started.

While he was talking to his grandmother, the storm intensified into a tornado, ripping the walls off
the house and sucking him in.
The tornado took Matt over 1,300 feet before dropping him in an abandoned field.

After flying through the air at 150 miles per hour, it’s safe to say that Matt had the ride of his life!

In your words:
Matt was watching TV when a tornado took him and left him far away from his
grandma’s house. The tornado also ripped the walls of the house. Fortunately, now Matt is
fine but surely this was a terrible experience for him.
3 MAN: Early Tuesday morning in Ontario, two police officers were chasing a car thief when they suddenly lost
control of their vehicle and drove into a river.

Surprisingly, the thief went back to the scene of the accident and helped rescue the offi cers from the river.

The local police department dropped all charges against the thief for saving the officers’ lives.

In your words:
On Tuesday morning, two police officers had an accident while they chasing a thief.
They _fell into a river because they lost control of their car. The thief came back
them and saved their lives, so all the carges against him were dropped.