Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería English 4 - Workshop

Departamento de Humanidades e Idiomas Vocabulary: survival stories

Grammar: verb tenses
Name:_______________________________________Date:______________________________

A. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

When Francis Lee was a boy he wanted to be an astronaut. He1) ……........................…….(watch) TV

one day in 1969 when he 2) ……………………. (see) Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. When he was
little , every night when there was a full moon, he 3)………….……….. (stare) up at it for hours and
imagined himself walking around on it. He 4)_______________(not study) anything but he would
like to. When he was young his parents 5)_______________(not have) money and he
6)___________________(not be) good at school. At the moment, however, he 7) ………………..…….
(work) as a night-watchman at a meat factory. He 8) ……………………………. (do) the same job for 15
years. He hopes that one day his dream will come true. He 9)…………………..…… (hear) that in 2022
they 10) …......will sell............. (sell) tickets to fly to the moon. For this reason he is saving half of
his wages.

B. Write questions to ask about the underlined part of the answer.

1. Q:___ __________________________________________?
A: Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969.

2. Q. ______?
A: Francis Lee has worked as a watchman for 15 years.

3. Q:__________________?
A: Francis Lee saves part of his salary to go to the party.

4. ________?
A: People will fly to the moon in 2022.

C. Please fill in the blanks with the correct form of the vocabulary words from page 8.
Remember to conjugate the verbs
1. An ISIS terrorist has kidnapped American Airlines MA314 and _____________________the
passengers to crash the airplane.
2. Mitt Ronson is a true hero who ___ ______________________ hundreds of people from some
of the most devastating earthquakes.
3.He began saving people after he _______ _ 14 days under the debris of the building where he
lived.