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DATE: ________________________ GROUP: ______________________

Activities taken from: Fuchs, M. Focus on Grammar, New York, 2000.

A. UNDERSTANDING PAST EVENTS

I. Read the text and answer the following questions. Use full sentences to answer.

1. How many haikus did Basho write? 6. How many students did he have by the time he died?
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2. What kind of topics did he choose? 7. Where did he go to study poetry?

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3. When was Basho born?
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4. Did he want to become a Samurai?
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5. When did he start traveling all over Japan?
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8. When did he die?
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9. How did he travel all over Japan?
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10. Where was he born?
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II. Read more about Basho. Underline all the verbs in the past tense. Then complete the time line on the left.
III. Complete the biography of another poet. Use the past simple forms of the verbs in the boxes.

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became
Wore

Appeared

was

lead leave

Wrote
received

Happened

B. PRACTICING THE PAST SIMPLE TENSE

I. Unscramble the following sentences:

1. go/gym/to/did/she/last Friday/? 4. bought/car/a/last week/they

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2. read/a lot of/ did/you/books/last summer/?
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3. didn’t/speak/German/I/in 1990/
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5. yesterday/broke/my children/a vase/
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6. didn’t/my parents/live/Japan/
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II. Correct the mistake in the following sentences.

1. I didn´t spoke to my boyfriend last night:

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2. Did you wrote this letter? _________________________________________________________________
3. Mary seed that movie last summer?
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4. Did Albert visited his mother on Monday?
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III. Write a brief paragraph about what you did yesterday. Use sequence markers: in the morning, in the afternoon, in
the evening, then, later.

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