EXERCISE 3. Present and past time: statements and negatives.
(Chapter 1 and Charts 2-1 + 2-3)
Directions: Correct the inaccurate statements by using negative then fimative sentences.
Some verbs are past, and some are present. Work as a class (with the teacher as Speaker
A) or in pairs. Only Speaker A's book is open...
Example: (... )* left the classroom ten minutes ago.
SPEAKER A (book open): Rosa left the classroom ten minutes ago.
SPBAKER B (book closed): No, that's not true. Rosa didn't leave the classroom.
Rosa is still here. She's sitting next to Kim.
- You got up at 4:30 this morning. ,.
- (... ) is standing in the comer of the classroom.
- (... ) stands in a comer of the classroom during class each day. ,
- (... ) stood in a corner during class yesterday.
- This book has a green cover.
- Shakespeare wrote novels.
- A river flows bm the bottom of a valley to the top of a mountain.
- We cook food in a reffigerator.
(Switch mks ifworking in pairs.1,lit;p , ., - (... ) taught this class yr lay.
10. Butterflies have ten leas. -
, * 11. 12. This (... morning, ) takes a helicopter you drove to to get school to school in a (name every of day. a kind of car).
- You speak (French and Arabic). ~1.. : :
- This room has (supply an incowect number) windows. ,; & ,
. ~ 15. (... ) and you studied together at the library last night. --
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JjlilC 16. (... ) went to (an impossible place) yesterday. , ,:, - 8
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EXERCISE 4. Present and past tlme: statements and negatives. :. ,..
(Chapter 1, Charts 2-1 - 2-3)
Directions: Work in pairs.
Speaker A: Your book is open. Complete each sentence to make an INACCURATE
statement.
Speaker B: Your book is closed. Correct Speaker A's statement, fust by using a negative
sentence and then by giving correct information.
Example:... hasihave tails. .. .-y-,ini-,fi r;.:::.):..?:
SPEAKER A (book open): People have tails.
,I SPEAWR B (book closed): No, people don't have tails. Dogs have tails. Cats have tails.
Biis have tails. But people don't have tails.
1.... islare blue. - You ate... for breakfast this morning.
*T%e symbol (... ) means "supply the name of a person."