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    DOCUMENTO1 UD 1 ejercicio enunciado.

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    UNIT 1

    TALKING ABOUT THE PAST


    TALKING ABOUT THE PAST

    ENUNCIADO – SOLUCIÓN

    1. Write one Word in each gap:


    Before the first half of the sixteenth century people ________ to use pens
    to write and brushes to paint with. It ________ also possible to use a metal
    stick to make faint marks on paper. Then, some time before 1565, a large
    deposit of the chemical, graphite, was found near Borrowdale in Columbia,
    England. The locals ________ use this graphite to mark sheep.
    Graphite is soft and dirty, and in order to write with it, it ________ to have
    to be covered in something, such as sheepskin or string.

    2. Choose the correct answer:


    n You __________________ be so good at backgammon, did you?
    o Never used to Are used to
    o Got used to Wouldn’t
    n Could you tell me sir, what you __________________ in the park at
    three in the morning?
    o Have done Were doing
    o Have been doing Did
    n I’d love to have lived in the old days, when people
    __________________ to market by horse and carriage
    o Have been travelling Got used to travel
    o Would travel Travelled
    n I much preferred it when we __________________ to Wales every
    summer on holiday
    o Used to go Went

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    TALKING ABOUT THE PAST

    o Were used to going Did go

    3. Complete the sentences use these pairs of verbs. Use the past sim-
    ple in one gap and the past continuous in the other.
    Come – Show Live - Spend Hope – Give Look - See Start – check in
    n I __________________ to go away this weekend, but my boss
    __________________ me some work that I have to finish by
    Monday
    n When I __________________ in Paris, I __________________ three
    hours a day travelling to and from work
    n A friendly American couple __________________ chatting to him as he
    __________________ at the hotel reception.
    n I bumped into Lena last week. She __________________ a lot better
    than when I last __________________ her
    n My boss into the office, just as I __________________ everyone my hol-
    iday photos

    4. Look at these couples of sentences. What differences in meaning, if


    any, would be there?

    • Just as I got into the bath all the lights went off - Just as I was getting
    into the bath all the lights went off
    • A friendly American couple started chatting to him as he checked in at
    the hotel reception - A friendly American couple started chatting to him
    as he was checking in at the hotel reception
    • I played badminton four times a week before a broke my ankle – I was
    playing badminton four times a week before I broke my ankle
    • Although the television was on, I didn’t watch it. Instead I dreamed about
    my holidays - Although the television was on, I was not watching it. In-
    stead I was dreaming about my holidays

    5. Complete this email with either the past simple or the past continu-
    ous form of the verbs in brackets:
    I ________ (buy) a new alarm clock the other day in Taylor’s the jewellers,
    when I actually ________ (see) somebody shoplifting. I’d just finished pay-
    ing for my clock and as I ________ (turn) round, an elderly woman
    ________ (slowly put) a silver plate into a bag that she ________ (carry).

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