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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.

For what is man’s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Listen and read the following conversation:

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Listen and repeat the following dialogue.

Victor: Did you see the new girl?

Julio: Yes. She was talking to Carmen about

last year’s English classes.

Victor: Oh, I miss those classes. What about

you?

Julio: I do too, of course! I learned so much.

Victor: Really? Do you remember all about the

historic places?

Julio: Er… why don’t we go and talk to the

new girl?

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Fill in the blanks with the right form of the verb in parentheses and practice with your partner.

Luis: Did you ____________ (hear) about the new girl?

Marcos: Yeah. What about her?

Luis: She ___________ (come) from Cariaco.

Marcos: Really? There___________ (be) a terrible earthquake in that city in 1997.

Luis: Yes. My dad ___________ (tell) me about it.

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 These are some historic places in Venezuela.

The National Pantheon The Ingenio Bolívar is in San Casa Páez is in Valencia city.
became the burial place of Mateo city. It belonged to the It was the residence of the
Venezuela’s national heroes in Bolívar family. independence hero José
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Alonso de Ojeda founded Santa Cruz in Laguna de Cocinetas

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established in Venezuela.

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Read the text below and answer the question.

September 6, 1987

Several natural disasters hit Venezuela in the past years. One of them was the devastating ?ood
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homeless, mainly in El Progreso, Mata Seca, San José, Casanova Godoy and Tierra Nuestra,
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donations of food, clothing and other items from the general public and private initiatives.

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Listen to your teacher and -ll in the blanks.

1. Floods can _________ many bene-ts.

2. Flooding can spread nutrients to _________ and _________.

3. Fish, such as the weather -sh, make use of _________ in order to reach new
habitats.

4. Freshwater ?oods particularly play an__________role in _________ ecosystems in river

corridors.

H. BUILDING BLOCKS

1. Look at the time line and add some other expressions.

yesterday today
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Past time Present time

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 2.
Regular Verbs
Present Past
remember remembered

practice ��ed / d practiced

satisfy y ied satis-ed

Irregular Verbs
go went
hear heard
hit hit

Regular Verbs
Present Past
We talk about diOerent topics every day. We talked about diOerent topics yesterday.
Rosa remembers her English classes all the time. Rosa remembered her English classes last night.
They practice the dialogs daily. They practiced the dialogs in the morning.
Irregular Verbs
Present Past
She goes to her class every day. She went to her class last week.
They come to class late on Mondays. They came to class late last Monday.
Grandpa tells me a story every night. Grandpa told me about Cariaco’s earthquake last
night.

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Choose verbs from the box and complete the following sentences in the simple past tense.

give – drink – bring – listen – drop – -nd – take – ask

1. What did you _________ for the party last Saturday?

2. I __________ my cell phone in the sink this morning.

3. She _________ him a present for his birthday yesterday.

4. The teacher didn’t _________ them diPcult questions last week.

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Look at the previous dialogues. Complete the following conversation and practice it with your
partner. You can use your own names.

Student A: _______we talk about Cariaco´s earthquake in our English class?

Student B: No. We _______ about Caracas’s.

Student A: Maybe Carla can________ us about it in class.

Student B: We can _______ the teacher.

Student A: Let’s _______ and ask him/her.

Student B: OK. Let’s go.

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