The document provides instructions for a Spanish language assignment on verb tenses and comprehension exercises. Students are asked to complete sentences using simple past tense, fill in blanks with appropriate past tense verbs, construct sentences using pronouns and past tense verbs, read and interpret short stories, and answer comprehension questions about a brief biography - all focused on practicing and demonstrating mastery of simple past tense. The assignment is to be completed on loose leaf paper, presented in a white folder, and submitted on the specified dates in September 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?