This document provides instructions for an English language assignment for the third period covering verb tenses and regular/irregular verbs in the past tense. Students are asked to complete dialogs, sentences, and short passages using verbs like "was, were, go, have, buy, etc." in their past tense forms. They are also asked to interpret short stories and answer questions about a biography of Ernesto Guevara. The assignment is to be completed on loose leaf paper and submitted in a white folder by the specified dates.

1. INSTITUTO EMPRESARIAL GABRIELA MISTRAL
PLAN DE MEJORAMIENTO
III PERIODO
IDIOMA EXTRANJERO INGLÉS 2016 7-06/7-07 /7-08
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:
7-06: SEPTIEMBRE 29 DE 2016
7-07: SEPTIEMBRE 26 DE 2016
7-08: SEPTIEMBRE 30 DE 2016
A. VERB TO BE IN THE PAST
I.Complete los siguientes diálogos utilizando WAS, WASN’T, WERE or WEREN’T en los
espacios:
DIALOGUE A
A: Peter : ________ Paul at work today?
B:Julie : No, he __________ in the office. I think he’s sick.
A: Henry : ____________ you in South America last year?
B:Steve : Yes. I _________ in Bolivia on business, and then my wife and I _________in
Brazil for a holiday.
A: Paula : Philip and I ____________ at home in London last week. We _________ at
Mike’s house in Cornwall. It ______ lovely there. Do you know Mike?
B:Jane : Yes, I ___________ at Mike’s party in Oxford in the summer.
A: Diana: _________you in Madrid?
B:Paula : No, we ___________ there. Philip and I __________ in Portugal in the summer.
DIALOGUE B
A: Where were you last night? I phoned you but you _________ at home.
B: I _________out with friends. We ________ at the Bluenote Cafe.
A: _________ Julia there?
B: No, she _________ . Why?
A: Oh, I just wondered.
B: She __________out with Nick. They _________at the Oasis. I think.
A: No, they __________ .
B: How do you know?
A: Because I __________ there!
II. Complete los espacios utilizando was o were:
1. Mary and Susan _________ill yesterday.
2. The weather __________ very hot last Saturday.
3. The students ___________ at the theater last night.
4. Betty ____________ in Germany last summer.

2. 5. My brother and I __________ at the football stadium on Saturday.
6. __________ it cold yesterday?
III. Cambie las siguientes oraciones a pasado utilizando el verbo to be“:
Example: I’m at home. I was at home.
1. Jane and Michael are tired.
2. She’s in the park.
3. It’s a sunny day.
4. You’re late.
5. They aren’t hungry.
6. We aren’t at work.
7. I’m thirsty.
8. You aren’t at school.
9. We’re at the cinema.
10.Paula isn’t happy.
11.Everyone is excited.
12.I’m not afraid.
IV. Encierre la forma correcta del verbo to be en cada frase (was o were):
1. He was / were a policeman.
2. We was / were very happy.
3. Was / Were you happy?
4. They wasn’t / weren’t interested in.
5. I was / were at school.
6. It wasn’t / weren’t expensive.
B. SIMPLE PAST REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS
I. 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 liter 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 _________.

3. 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.
II. 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.
III.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.
Franklin ________ (do) all these things and many more because he __________ (believe)
he ____________ (can).

4. IV.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 (-) _______________________________
V.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 de nuevo la anterior historia 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?