Department: The Academic Assistance Department
Class: English for 4th Year Sec. Edu.
  Lesson: Hobbies Unit: Free time and entertainment
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Language activity: Grammar

 
Know more about the simple past and the simple past versus the past continuous and then do two gap filling exercises. Click the play button to begin.
Have a look at this thorough list of irregular verbs. Check your Irregular verbs

 
1. Complete this paragraph with the correct tense and/or form of the bracketed verbs:


When Bob Marley came to the world of music, the white audience (need) some soul and passion. When he was young, he (be) a street fighter, a hooligan who (burn) by the industry. He (come) to London to tour with Johnny Nash, but the tour (fall) apart and he (strand) without a light.
 
2.Read the following paragraph and choose the right tense:


One night in April 1912, a huge new ocean liner was crossing the Atlantic. It (was/has been/had been) her maiden voyage and she (carried/was carrying/had carried) two thousand passengers. She (also went/had also gone/was also going) very fast, which was dangerous because there (have been/had been/were) icebergs around. The passengers (were having/had/had had) a good time when the ship suddenly (had struck/has struck/struck) one of these icebergs.The ship (began/has begun/had begun) to sink and the passengers (have been trying/tried/had tried ) to escape, but there weren't enough lifeboats. Two thirds of the passengers (had gone/went/ were going) down with the Titanic.