Weekly assignment
English 3rd
year A
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The following
assignment is to be done in a word document in the format A4, letter: times New
Roma, 12. The due date for this assignment is Wednesday 25, march 2020.
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. Verb TO
BE (simple present)
Verb
to be can be used to express a permanent state or condition as well as a
temporary one. In Spanish language it has two meanings: Ser- Estar.
Affirmative chart
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I
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AM (‘m)
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He
She
IT
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IS (‘s)
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We
You
They
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ARE (‘re)
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Eg: I am in Buenos Aires (Yo estoy
en Buenos Aires)
I
am Argentinian. (Yo soy argentino)
Negative Chart
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I
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AM
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NOT
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Complement
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He
She
It
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IS
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NOT
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Complement
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We
You
They
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ARE
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NOT
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Complement
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To make negative sentences we need to add
NOT after the verb to be.
Eg: I am
not in Buenos Aires.
I am
not Argentinian.
For the interrogative sentences it is
necessary to place the verb initially or after a wh-word.
Interrogative chart
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AM
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I
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Complement?
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Is
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He
She
It
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Complement?
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ARE
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We
You
They
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Complement?
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WH-Word
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AM
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I
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Complement?
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Wh-Word
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IS
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He
She
It
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Complement?
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Wh-word
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ARE
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We
You
They
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Complement?
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Eg:
Am I in Buenos Aires?
Am
I Argentinian?
Where
am I?
Why
am I Argentinian?
FILL IN THE GAPS USING: AM – IS – ARE (positive or
negative)
When the trees______ in spring they ________
green. But when winter comes, they _____________ green because it _______ very
cold. Also, many people ______ happy in winter because they like cold weather.
On the contrary, birds ___________ happy in
springtime but they ______________ in winter because they don’t like cold
weather. So, my dog, like birds, ________ really happy in springtime too. But
many people ________________ happy in springtime because they __________
allergic. You can ask: Why______ they allergic? Well, it ________ because of
the flowers.
Write the
corresponding form of the verb to be
in the empty spaces.
1)
Xi Jinping _________ the president of the People’s Republic of China.
2)
What colour ______ the sun? It ______ yellow.
3)
Why _____ you so tired? It ______ because of the workout in the gym.
4)
How old ______ you? I _______ eighteen years old.
5)
How much ______ the tuna sandwich? It________ U$ 4.
6)
______ Beijing in China? Yes, it _____
7)
What continent ______ Malaysia and China? They ______ in Asia.
8)
______ Istanbul the capital city of Turkey? No, it_____ not.
9)
______ Cairo and Ankara in Asia? No, they _____ not.
10)
The capital city of China _______ Beijing.
PRESENT CONTINOUS
The present continuous tense is used to
talk about momentary events. That is, an event that happens at the same moment
of speaking.
To
make affirmative sentences is necessary to use the present simple of the verb
to be plus a verb ending in –ing.
Affirmative chart
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I
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AM
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V-ing
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Complement
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He
She
It
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IS
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V-ing
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Complement
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We
You
They
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ARE
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V-ing
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Complement
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Eg:
I am watching TV.
Daniel is playing football.
Chiara and Pedro are walking to the school.
In
all the cases they accept a shortened form:
Eg:
I’m watching TV.
Daniel’s playing football.
They’re
walking to the school.
We can also add an adverb that give emphasis
to the momentary idea, such as: now, in
this moment, today, currently, nowadays.
Eg:
I am watching TV now.
Daniel
is playing football in this
moment.
Chiara and Pedro are walking to the school
today.
In
case of negative sentences, it is necessary to place the negative particle
after the verb to be.
Negative
Chart
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I
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AM
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NOT
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V- ing
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Complement
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He
She
It
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IS
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NOT
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V-ing
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Complement
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We
You
They
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ARE
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NOT
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V-ing
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Complement
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Eg: I am NOT watching TV.
Daniel is NOT playing football.
Chiara and Pedro are NOT walking to the
school.
Negative
sentences also accept an adverb emphasizing the moment of speaking as well as
the shortened form of the verb to be.
Eg:
I am NOT watching TV now.
Daniel
is NOT playing football in this
moment.
Chiara and Pedro are NOT walking to the
school today
The
shortened form admits two possibilities, except for the first person singular.
Eg:
A) I’m NOT watching TV now.
Daniel’s NOT playing football in
this moment.
Chiara and Pedro’re NOT walking to
the school today.
B) I am
NOT watching TV now.
Daniel isn’t
playing football in this moment.
Chiara and
Pedro aren’t walking to the school today.
For the interrogative sentences it is
necessary to place the verb initially, then the subject, then the verb-ing and
the complement. Also we can start a question with a wh-word and then the verb
to be, subject, verb-ing and the complement of the interrogative sentence.
Interrogative chart
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AM
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I
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V-ing
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Complement?
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Is
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He
She
It
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V-ing
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Complement?
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ARE
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We
You
They
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V-ing
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Complement?
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WH-Word
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AM
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I
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V-ing
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Complement?
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Wh-Word
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IS
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He
She
It
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V-ing
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Complement?
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Wh-word
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ARE
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We
You
They
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V-ing
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Complement?
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Eg:
Am I watching TV?
Is
Daniel playing football?
Are
Chiara and Pedro walking to the school?
What
Am I watching?
Where
Is Daniel playing football?
Why
Are Chiara and Pedro walking
to the school?
Spelling of verbs
ending (v-ing)
1)
Most verbs add –ing
Wear Wearing
Go Going
Cook Cooking
Hold Holding
2)
When the infinitive ends in –e, drop –e and add –ing
Write Writing
Smile Smiling
Take Taking
3)
In the case of monosyllabic verbs, it is necessary to double the last consonant
before the –ing ending,
Sit Sitting
Get Getting
Run Running
Stop Stopping
Swim Swimming
4)
When the verb ends in –y the –ing is added.
Play Playing
Stay Staying
Lay Laying
Try Trying
Dry Drying
Write the –ing form
of the following verbs.
Walk
_________________________ use _________________________ Dance ________________
Sing
_________________________ Listen
______________________ Get ________________
Read
__________________________ Run ________________________ Do ________________
Stop
___________________________ buy _______________________ Write ______________
Study
__________________________ smoke _____________________ Drink _______________
Put the words in
order to make sentences.
a)
TV/is/Jane/watching?
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b)
visiting/We/London/are
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c)
is/wearing/jeans/Tom? __________________________________________________________
d)
They/video games/are/playing.
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e)
a sandwich/ are/eating/you.
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f)
dancing/girls/the/are. ___________________________________________________________
g)
using/I/a computer/am.
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h)
is/tennis/she/playing.
__________________________________________________________
Match a line in A
with a line in B
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B
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I’m
working hard
Len’s
buying his wife a present
Jane’s
washing her hair
Peter’s
looking for a better job
We’re
buying some new clothes
The
cats are starving
My
mum’s watering the flowers
The
baby`s crying
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Because
nobody fed them this morning
Because
he doesn’t earn much at the moment
Because
they are dry and the weather’s hot.
Because
it’s her birthday soon,
Because
I’ve got exams next week.
Because
he’s hungry
Because
she’s going to a party tonight.
Because
we’re going to a wedding soon.
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Write the following
sentences in the negative.
1)
They are talking.
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2)
He’s eating an ice-cream.
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3)
The baby is sleeping.
___________________________________________________________
4)
They’re cycling.
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5)
She’s running. ________________________________________________________________
Give a short answer
to each question. When you see (x) is for the negative form and (+) affirmative
form.
1)
Are Riquelme and Gallardo playing football? (x)
______________________________________
2)
Is Karina Zampini eating a cake? (+) _______________________________________________
3)
Is Moria Casan hosting a TV show? (+)
_____________________________________________
4)
Is Ariana Grande singing “La pollera amarilla”? (x)
____________________________________
5)
Are you going to school today? (x) _________________________________________________
Read the text
“Friends”
Calvin and Jerry are living in the north of
the country, in Workington, where the weather is very cold. They moved there a
month ago because they started a new job for the company where they are working.
In this moment they are looking out of
the window because it’s snowing. It’s the first time this year and it’s the
first time for them, so they are looking at the snow very delighted. Suddenly
they remembered that they are having a party that night. Then Calvin asked: How are we going to get to the party tonight
with this snow? It’s our welcome party. All the mates will be there. Don’t you worry, answered Jerry and then said:
It’s going to stop a little bit later on, I bet you. Time is passing by and the
evening is coming said Calvin. What’s wrong pal? Asked Jerry. Calvin answered:
I’m looking to the garden and the snow is really high. So they took a
shovel and started removing a little bit of snow from the front of the house.
After that Jerry said: I’m going to
prepare something to eat. .By six in the afternoon they started to get
worried because…
Now write an ending
for the story in one hundred (100) words.
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SIMPLE PRESENT.
This verb tense can be used to talk about eternal
truth, daily routines, habitual actions.
In
this verb tense the verb has an inflection only in the third person singular,
he, she , it. The verb needs an –s/-es.
So in work
we need to say and write He works.
But this inflection for the third person
singular may happen in a different way in the case that a verb ends in O, X,
S, SH, CH , so that it is necessary to add –es.
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He
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X
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It
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Eg: He goES to work everyday. | hi ɡəʊz tə ˈwɜːk ˈevrɪdeɪ |
She relaxES after work. | ʃi rɪˈlæksɪz ˈɑːf.tə ˈwɜːk |
He brushES his teeth every morning. | hi ˈbrʌʃɪz ɪz tiːθ ˈevri ˈmɔːnɪŋ |
She watchES tv every night before
bed. | ʃi ˈwɒtʃɪz ˌtiːˈviː ˈevri naɪt
bɪˈfɔː bed |
He kissES her every morning. | hi ˈkɪsɪz hər ˈevri ˈmɔːnɪŋ |
The above affirmative sentences need an
auxiliary to be turned into negative o interrogative. This auxiliary will vary
according to the subject of the sentence. Thus for the first and second person
singular( I, You) and for the first,
second and third person plural( we, you, they) the auxiliary will be DO whereas
for the third person singular( He, she,
it) it will be DOES.
Eg: He
goes to work every day.
DOES he go to work every day?
These
two auxiliaries are used to make negative sentences.
Eg: She
relaxes after work
She does Not relax after work.
She doesn’t relax after work. (Abbreviated
form)
Match a question in A with an
answer in B
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B
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Where does he
live?
How many
languages does he speak?
How much is a
cheese sandwich?
How old are you?
What does she do
in her free time?
Who does he play
with?
Where does she
come from?
Why does she go
skiing?
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Thirty-two.
Because she loves
the countryside.
In a house in
Manchester.
His two sons.
Vienna. She’s
Austrian.
One pound fifty.
Two. French and
English.
She goes
swimming.
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Put the words in
order to make questions.
1) does/what/up/get/she/time?
_______________________________________________
At seven
o’clock.
2) do/breakfast/does/what/she/before?
_________________________________________
She has a
shower.
3) for/does/have/breakfast/she/what? __________________________________________
A cup of
tea with some toasts.
4) to/how/she/work/does/go?
________________________________________________
By bus.
5) she/does/what/evenings/do/the/in?
_________________________________________
She
watches television.
Use
simple present or present continuous of the verbs in brackets to fill in the
text.
My aunt Virginia is a manager in a big
company. She always (go) __________________ to work by car. She (have got)
__________________a very big car. My aunt always (wear) ___________________
fashionable clothes and jewellery. But today she (work)
________________________ in the garden. She (not wear) ______________________
fancy clothes.
Simple Past
There are
different ways to talk about past tense in English language, but simple
past is the most common of all. We use it to talk about completed
actions in the past. We find regular and irregular verbs according to the way
the verbs behave..
In
the case of regular verbs we add “-ed”
to the base form of the verb.
Example:
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In
case of the verbs that end in “e”,
we only add “-d”.
Example:
But
when the verb ends in a simple vowel followed by a consonant (except “y” or “w”),
it is necessary to double the final consonant..
Example:
Now in cases of verbs that end in a
consonant and “y”,
a change is necessary “y” por una “i”.
Ejemplos:
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On the contrary, irregular
verbs, as their name say, do not follow a rule.
Structure
Affirmative Sentences
Subject + verb + Complement
Exmple:
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She was a doctor.
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The
keys were in the
drawer.
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I wanted to dance.
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They learned English.
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We believed him.
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I bought a blue car.
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Negative Sentences
To be:
Subject + “to be”(in the past
form) + “not + complement
Example:
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She wasn’t a doctor.
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The keys weren’t in the
drawer.
Then, lexical verbs use auxiliary DID and the
negative adverb.
Subject + Did + “not” + main verb ( infinitive) + complement
Example
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The following list of irregular verbs show how they
may behave.
IRREGULAR VERBS
Awake Awoke Awoken
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become
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became
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become
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begin
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began
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begun
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break
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broke
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broken
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bring
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brought
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brought
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build
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built
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built
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buy
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bought
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bought
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catch
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caught
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caught
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choose
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chose
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chosen
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come
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came
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come
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cost
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cost
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cost
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cut
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cut
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cut
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do
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did
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done
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draw
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drew
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drawn
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drink
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drank
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drunk
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drive
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drove
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driven
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eat
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ate
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eaten
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fall
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fell
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fallen
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feed
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fed
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fed
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feel
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felt
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felt
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fight
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fought
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fought
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find
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found
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found
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fly
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flew
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flown
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forget
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forgot
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forgotten
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forgive
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forgave
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forgiven
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get
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got
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got (BrE) / gotten (AmE)
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give
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gave
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given
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go
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went
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gone
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grow
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grew
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grown
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have
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had
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had
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hear
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heard
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heard
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hide
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hid
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hidden
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hit
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hit
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hit
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hold
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held
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held
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know
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knew
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known
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learn
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learned
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learnt/learned
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leave
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left
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left
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lend
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lent
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lent
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lose
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lost
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lost
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make
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made
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made
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mean
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meant
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meant
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meet
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met
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met
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pay
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paid
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paid
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put
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put
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put
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read
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read
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read
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ride
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rode
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ridden
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rise
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rose
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risen
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run
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ran
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run
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say
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said
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said
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see
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saw
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seen
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sell
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sold
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sold
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send
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sent
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sent
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set
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set
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set
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show
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showed
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shown
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sing
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sang
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sung
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sit
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sat
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sat
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sleep
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slept
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slept
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speak
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spoke
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spoken
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spend
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spent
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spent
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stand
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stood
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stood
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steal
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stole
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stolen
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swim
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swam
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swum
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take
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took
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taken
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teach
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taught
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taught
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tell
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told
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told
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think
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thought
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thought
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throw
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threw
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thrown
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understand
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understood
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understood
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wear
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wore
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worn
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win
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won
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won
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write
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wrote
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written
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There are different ways of pronouncing the simple
past.
1. When the
infinitive ends in “p”, “f”, “k” o “s” (except “t”), past form is pronounced “t”.
Example:
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looked [lukt]
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kissed [kisst]
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2. When the
infinitive ends in “b”, “g”, “l”, “m”, “n”, “v”, “z” (except “d”) or a vowel
sound, we just pronounce “d”.
Example:
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yelled [jeld]
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cleaned [klind]
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3. When the
infinitive ends in “d” o “t”,
we pronounce “ed” past form as “id”.
Example:
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ended [endid] waited [weitid]
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CIRCLE
THE CORRECT OPTION.
Last week there was/were a writing competition in my school. My friend Carla was/were one of the judges and another
friend. Jake, was/wasn’t in the
competition because Iam not good at writing stories.
There was/were
many participants. They wasn’t/weren’t
from primary school. It was/wasn’t
for students between thirteen and sixteen years old. They was/were all from secondary school.
COMPLETE
THE TEXT USING THE VERBS IN BRACKETSIN THE SIMPLE PAST.
Last week I ………. .(get up) very early.
I…………… (be) very happy because I ……………(have) some great plans. I …………… (meet)
my friends and we ……………..(go) to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We ………….. (take)
the train to Edinburgh. When we………………(arrive), we ………………..(not go) to the
theatres because many shows ……………..(be) in the streets. We ………….. (see) people
everywhere. It …………. (be) fantastic! There ……………(be) many new plays. We really
……….(enjoy) the festival a lot.
Read the following paragraph.
Every morning Mr. Lester gets up at seven
o’clock. First he gets dressed. Then he makes a cup of tea and some toast for
breakfast. Then he goes to work by train. He has lunch in a bar. After that he
keeps on working till five in the afternoon. At five thirty he catches the
train back home. When he gets back home he has a shower. After that he cooks
and has dinner together with his wife. After dinner Mrs. Lester puts the cat
out of the house. Then both go upstairs, get into bed and go to sleep.
Now, rewrite the paragraph in the
simple present.
