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d) your parents – were – doing – yesterday night – What? ___________________________________
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e) with – your friends – you – yesterday – were? __________________________________________
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5. Imagine that each sentence is the beginning of a story. Write two sentences in the past
continuous to give background information:
a) I had a terrible dream. _______________________________________________
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b) My parents had an accident. ___________________________________________
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c) Yesterday. I had a stomachache_________________________________________
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d) I think I saw your sister yesterday. ______________________________________
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e) Last night I didn’t sleep well. __________________________________________
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6. Read the text and complete it with the past tense of the verbs in parentheses:
Barack Obama elected as America’s first Black president
Obama __________(be) born in 1961 in Hawaii. He ______________
(graduate) from Harvard Law School and ______________(be) a law
professor at the University of Chicago before launching his political career in
1996, when he ______________(be) elected to the Illinois State Senate. He
___________(be) re-elected to that post in 1998 and 2000. In March 2004,
he shot to national prominence by winning the U.S. Senate Democratic primary
in Illinois, and that July he ______________(gain) further exposure when
he ____________(deliver) the keynote address at the Democratic National
Convention in Boston, which ____________(include) his eloquent call for unity among “red” (Republican) and
“blue” (Democratic) states. That November, Obama ____________(be) elected to the U.S. Senate in a landslide.
On February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois, Obama officially_________________ (announce) his candidacy for
president. On November 4, Obama __________(be) elected the president of the United States. On November 6,
2012, he ____________(defeat) Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term in the White House. He
_____________(leave) office in January, 2017.
Adapted from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Morrison
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7. Read the text about Barack Obama again and write 5 questions according to the text:
a)______________________________________________________________________________
b)______________________________________________________________________________
c)______________________________________________________________________________
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e)______________________________________________________________________________