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Tense Review: Simple Past, Past Cont and Present Perfect




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Tense Review

Simple Past, Past Continuous,  Present Perfect

  Task 1. Warmup: Fill in the missing forms of the verbs in the following table.

Infinitive

Past Tense

Past Participle

be

gone

bought

take

flown

lain

sang

think

won

 Task 2: Pete and Pauline are a couple. Find out some facts about them by reading and clicking on the correct verb form. 

Pete   known Pauline for a long time. They  at a party when they  students at college. They  to each other at once and since then they  inseparable. They  married right after graduation.
At the weekend Pauline  to a school reunion. Pete  with her because just before they  about to set off, he  an accident. As he  home from work, he  to overtake a lorry. He  on the wet road and  into a tree. Luckily he  hurt badly, but he  at home and  the whole weekend in bed.Unhappy
 

Task 3: Andy got a Certificate of  Courage because he saved Tim's life last Sunday. This is a part of an interview that the local paper wrote about him. Fill in the reporter's questions.

Reporter:   (how long / you / know / Tim?)

Andy: I've known him since we started school.
Reporter:  (where / you / be / last Sunday?) 
Andy: We were on the beach because it was a sunny day.
Reporter:  ( what / you / do?)
Andy: We were sunbathing and watching some girls playing beachball.
Reporter:  (how / accident / happen?)
Andy: The girls' ball flew into the sea and Tim wanted to get it back, so he jumped in the water. You know there were some rocks under the water and he hit his head on one of them. He fainted at once and began to sink.
Reporter:  (what / you / do?)
Andy: I jumped after him and pulled him to the shore. He wasn't breathing so I gave him a mouth-to-mouth. He came round in a minute.