Taller nivelación 7° iii p 2015

1. INSTITUTO EMPRESARIAL GABRIELA MISTRAL
PLAN DE MEJORAMIENTO
III PERIODO
IDIOMA EXTRANJERO INGLÉS 2015 7-04/7-05 /7-06
ASIGNATURA AÑO CURSO
DOCENTE: LIC. CARMEN CECILIA RAMIREZ CAMARGO
Desarrolle el siguiente trabajo en hojas sueltas, a mano, preséntelo en carpeta
blanca y susténtelo en la fecha señalada:
7-04: SEPTIEMBRE 9 DE 2015
7-05: SEPTIEMBRE 8 DE 2015
7-06: SEPTIEMBRE 8 DE 2015
1. Complete las siguientes frases utilizando el pasado simple:
1. Yesterday my father (go) _____________to work by car.
2. This morning I (have) ______________ a shower.
3. __________(be) Mary at home on Saturday? No, she __________.
4. The birds (fly )____________ over our heads.
5. Last week my family (not buy) ______________ a new table for the dining
room.
6. The other day, I (lose) ____________ my math's book.
7. I (tell) ________________ my mother a lie.
8. We (hear) ______________ a terrible sound outside last night.
9. ________you__________ (see) football match Tuesday night?
10. Pau (drink) _____________ a litre of Coke for lunch yesterday.
11. He (not write) ________________ his homework last Sunday.
12. Mary (not go) _________________ to school last week.
13. ________you _____________(play) basketball two weeks ago?
14. I _____________ (study) French last year.
15. They (be)_________________ in their new flat last month.
16. John (be) __________in a test yesterday but he __________ (not pass) it.
17. Tim (go) ______________ to Paris last summer.
18. ________ your parents___________(meet) at university? No, they _________.
19. When I (be) __________ a child, I_____________(speak) German.
20. We (see) ____________him yesterday but he (not see) _____________us.
21. The exam ___________ (be) difficult.
22. We ______________ (not-study) for the exam.

2. 2. Complete los espacios con el verbo apropiado en Pasado Simple:
*break *swim *have *make *sit *write *spend *buy *drink *be *lose *wash
1. She _______________ a cake an hour ago.
2. She _______________ a hat last week.
3. The boy ____________ a letter yesterday.
4. They _______________ in the sea for an hour.
5. They ____________ a lot of Coke last night.
6. She _____________ her arm last week.
7. He______________ all his money last week.
8. She ____________ a bath two minutes ago.
9. He ________________ his wallet last night.
10. She ______________ on the old chair a minute ago.
11. She __________________ the clothes yesterday.
12. I ___________ a good student last year.
3.Complete los siguientes textos con el Pasado Simple de los verbos en
paréntesis:
*Last Saturday my father __________ (take) my friends and me to the circus. We
_________(see) lots of things. My father__________ (buy) us some popcorn and
orange juice. We _______ (eat) the popcorn and __________ (drink) the orange
juice. We__________ (laugh) at the funny clowns. There _______ (be) a lion-
tamer. The lions __________ (do) tricks; they _________ (jump) through hoops. A
girl _________ (ride) an elephant around the ring. We all _______ (have) a
wonderful time.
*Benjamin Franklin _________ (be) born in Boston in 1706. He _______ (be)the
fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He _________(go ) to
school only one year. He__________ (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the
age of fourteen he _____________ (decide) to be a writer. He (copy) the great
stories of famous writers and later he __________ (become) the best known writer
in his time.
When he ___________ (be) seventeen, he _________ (leave) Boston and
________ (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He ______
(get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and _________ (retire) from business as
a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ________ (spend) the next forty years for his
government. He _________ (play) an important role in the founding of the USA.
Franklin ________ (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He __________
(draw) electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ________ (write) one of the first
text books on electricity. He __________ (invent) a simple lightning rod and many
other practical tools. He ________ (make) a study of water and ______________
(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even _________ (invent) bifocal
glasses when he was seventy-eight and ___________ (need) them himself.

3. Franklin ________ (do) all these things and many more because he __________
(believe) he ____________ (can).
4.Construya frases en positiva o negativa con el pronombre que usted elija.
Ejemplos:
go shopping ( - ) We didn’t go shopping yesterday.
clean the house ( + ) I cleaned the house yesterday.
feed the cat ( + )____________________________
telephone Mary ( - ) ___________________________
watch a film on TV ( - ) __________________________
play football ( + ) _______________________________
take the bus ( + ) _______________________________
study for the exam (-) _______________________________
5.Lea la siguiente historia y trate de interpretarla.
Bob is a young sailor. He lives in England, but he is often away with his ship.
One summer he comes back from a long voyage and finds new neighbors near his
mother’s house. They have a pretty daughter, and Bob soon loves her and he
wants to marry her when he comes back. Bob promises the girl to send a present
from every port. Bob’s first port is Capetown in Africa, and he sends the girl a
parrot from there. The parrot speaks three languages. When Bob’s ship reaches
Australia, a letter comes from the girl. The letter says, “Thank you for the parrot,
Bob. It tasted much better than a chicken.”
Escribe la anterior historia de nuevo utilizando el Pasado Simple.
Bob was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he ………….
6. Lea el siguiente texto e interprételo. Responda las preguntas sobre el texto.
A hero for some-and for others, a villain-his real name was Ernesto Guevara de la
Serna, and he was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928. He studied to be a doctor
in Buenos Aires, but he became interested In politics as a young man. He spent
time in Guatemala and Mexico and was a government minister in Cuba in 1960. He
died in Bolivia in 1967 when he tried to start a revolution against the military
government. He later became a hero for many people because of his revolutionary
political ideas.
1. Where and when was Ernesto Guevara born?
2. Did he study to be a doctor?
3. What did he do in Cuba?
4. When did he die?
5. Why did he become a hero?