Get Go Make Do
Adjectives
Past Simple vs
Past Continuous
Past Continuous
Past Perfect vs
Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous
Used to & Would
100
Complete these activities with go, play, or do.
_______ chess.
_______ a dance course.
_______ backpacking.
Play chess.
Do a dance course.
Go backpacking.
BOMB
100
Explain: who is annoyed? Who is annoying? Why?
The women are annoyed because the man is disrupting them from enjoying the movie. The man is annoying because he is talking loudly on the phone in the cinema.
100
Complete.
Tom Cruise ________ (shoot) the film Mission Impossible when someone in the crew ________ (catch) COVID.
Tom Cruise was shooting the film Mission Impossible when someone in the crew caught COVID.
GUN
100
Past perfect continuous or past perfect simple?
We use this verb tense to refer to one action that happened before another in the past.
We use this verb tense to refer to an action that happened in the past and continued until another moment in the past.
Past perfect simple
Past perfect continuous
ANGEL
100
When talking about habits in the past, what is the main difference between used to and would?
Would cannot be used for past states.
200
Sometimes, we have to memorize specific phrases in English, but in general:
what is a synonym for the word do?
And make?
Do = to complete, to finish a task or course
Make = to construct, to create
200
What does it usually mean when an adjective ends in -ed?
And -ing?
-ed adjectives describe a feeling or emotion.
-ing adjectives inspire or make you feel a certain way.
200
Correct the mistakes.
Where did they travel when she was doing a bungee jump?
Where were they traveling when she did a bungee jump?
ANGEL
200
Fill in the blanks:
Thankfully, when I could finally buy a car, I ___________ (already get) my driver's license.
He _________ (travel) by plane for twelve hours when he arrived back home.
Thankfully, when I could finally buy my car, I had already gotten my driver's license.
He had been traveling by plane for twelve hours when he got back home.
200
Correct the mistakes:
They didn't used to take airplanes to travel across the country.
He would live in France when he was younger.
Explain the errors.
They didn't use to...(repetition of past simple)
He used to...(we don't use would for past states)
GUN
300
What is synonym for the word get?
Think of two expressions with the word get.
Synonyms: to obtain, to achieve, to receive, to become, to arrive...
Expressions: get good grades, get a new job, get a headache, get sick, get home...
300
Complete:
What did you think about the movie? You didn't seem very ______ (entertain).
The idea of going to a music festival after all the rain this weeks feels quite _____ (worry).
It isn't so _______ (embarrass) to get up and present to the class.
entertained
worrying
embarrassing
BOMB
300
Which verb tense do we often use for an ongoing action in the past? Which do we use to represent an action that interrupts another?
Complete the following sentence and mention which verb represents an ongoing action and which represents an interruption.
The first singers _________ (not be) very good and we _______ (get) bored when Mom suddenly ________ (say), "Hey look! Isn't that your teacher?"
The first singers weren't very good and we were getting bored when Mom suddenly said..."
300
Form the correct sentence:
had / concert / When / arrived / I / the / started
got / she / raining / two / had / When / hours / been / up / it / for
When I arrived, the concert had started.
When she got up, it had been raining for two hours.
300
Add the correct form of used to in the following sentences.
People travel by camper van?
They not have iPhones in the 1800s.
We always watch cartoons after school.
Did people use to travel by camper van?
They didn't use to have iPhones in the 1800s.
We always used to watch cartoons after school.
400
Complete the phrases with: go through, go with, go back, go on
Halfway through the hike, I decided I couldn't ___ (continue).
I don't think that jacket ____ (look good) your jeans.
She _____ (experience) two world wars by the time she was 20.
If you had ______ (return) and reviewed the unit, you would have gotten a better score.
go on
goes with
went through
gone back
400
Describe a situation, correctly using the adjectives tired and tiring.
Use at least one adverb (quite, a bit, very...)
Getting your driver's license can be a long and tiring process. It's normal to feel quite tired after your first few practical lessons.
400
Make a sentence in the same order with the past simple and past continuous.
While / they / walk / home from school / they / see / strange lights in the sky
Five astronauts / return / to Earth / when / their spaceship / have / a problem.
While they were walking home from school they saw strange lights in the sky.
Five astronauts were returning to Earth when their spaceship had a problem.
400
Correct the mistakes:
I had living in Italy for three years before we met.
Did the meeting started by the time you got there?
Sara weren't been working there long when they promoted her.
The cat had already fell from the tree by the time the firefighters arrived.
I had been living in Italy...
Had the meeting started...
Sara hadn't been working there long...
The cat had already fallen...
400
List two habits that people did in the past using used to.
List two habits people didn't do in the past using used to.
They used to have home phones.
They used to get married younger.
They didn't use to eat so much fast food.
They didn't use to have Google.
500
List four things on your group's "Before I'm 25" bucket list.
Use one expression each with go, get, make, and do. Try to use vocabulary from the unit.
Before we're 25, we'd like to...
500
Describe these two situations, with one -ed and one -ing adjective, each:
Get home late
Do business
I think it's exciting to get home late, but my parents sometimes feel frightened.
Doing business can be disappointing, but you'll sometimes feel pleasantly surprised.
500
Write a short story about a memorable experience.
Use the past continuous in an affirmative and negative form and the past simple in an affirmative and negative form.
When we went to Barcelona...
500
Invent two sentences using the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous.
Use the affirmative and negative of both.
They'd been painting the room for two hours when they realized they hadn't bought enough cans.
500
Describe a day in your life when you were younger. Use used to, didn't use to, and would.
When I was a child...