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11th Workshop Week Aug 1-6 Review-practice

This document is a workshop for eleventh-grade students focusing on the review of present perfect and narrative tenses in English. It includes exercises for completing sentences, choosing correct answers, and filling in the blanks with appropriate verb forms. The document also covers media and news vocabulary, along with practice on the concept of being used to different situations.

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11th Workshop Week Aug 1-6 Review-practice

This document is a workshop for eleventh-grade students focusing on the review of present perfect and narrative tenses in English. It includes exercises for completing sentences, choosing correct answers, and filling in the blanks with appropriate verb forms. The document also covers media and news vocabulary, along with practice on the concept of being used to different situations.

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Liceo Avenida Las Américas

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
Workshop —B.B. King
Grade: Eleventh ___
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” –Thomas
Jefferson“

Present perfect review

1. Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

Did - didn’t - hasn’t been - haven’t - ’s - ’s been - ’ve - ’ve been

• She _______________ studying French since she visited Paris. She loves it!
• When _______________ you meet James?
• You can go out when you _______________ finished your homework.
• James is exhausted. He _______________ sleeping well.
• Dad _______________ lost his glasses again.
• The children look happy. They _______________ having fun in the park.
• We were in such a hurry, we _______________ have time to say goodbye.
• I don’t know anything about Harry Potter because I _______________ read the
books.

2. Choose the correct answer.

• I can play this piece of music quite well. I practised / have practised / have been
practising it for weeks.
• This article is really interesting. Did you read / Have you read / Have you been
reading it?
• Antonio is upset because his sister teased / has teased / has been teasing him all
day.
• I’m not sure what video games Jess enjoys playing. I didn’t know / haven’t known
/ haven’t been knowing her for very long.
• When Laura was younger, she had / has had / has been having a pony.
• I don’t think I’ll recognize Peter because I didn’t see / haven’t seen / haven’t been
seeing him for five years.
• I listened / ’ve listened / ’ve been listening to Ed Sheeran’s new album about
fifteen times.
• Look at the weather! It rained / ’s rained / ’s been raining all morning.

3. Complete the sentences with the correct past simple, present perfect simple or
present perfect continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

• Yesterday, I _______________ to get up early and go for a run. (decide)


• I _______________ enough food for everyone. I’ll need to make some more. (not
make)
• Anna _______________ for her friend for more than an hour already. (wait)
• Philip is bored because he _______________ this film twice before. (see)
• We went into the town centre and _______________ a pizza. (have)
• I’m really hungry, but Dad _______________ cooking dinner yet. (not finish)

Narrative tenses (past simple + continuous, past perfect simple)

4. Choose the correct answers.

• I’m really happy today because I finished / was finishing my History essay last
night.
• By the time we got to the party, Karina left / had left.
• Serena was really hungry because she hadn’t eaten / didn’t eat since breakfast.
• I was walking to the post office when / while it started to snow.
• When I got to work, I discovered that someone took / had taken my computer.
• I drove / was driving to work when I saw the accident.

5. Choose the correct words in brackets to complete the sentences.


• By the time I was ten, I _______________ five different countries. (lived / had lived)
• The actor was born in 1931 and _______________ in 2018. (had died / died)
• We were hoping to see Leonie, but she _______________ before we arrived. (left /
had left)
• While she _______________ round the museum, she met an old school friend. (was
looking / looked)
• When I was a child, I _______________ in Singapore. (lived / had lived)
• I _______________ a really good book when he called. (read / was reading) Sadly,
by the time they arrived at the hospital, he _______________. (had died / died)
• We _______________ dinner when someone knocked on the door. (had / were
having)

Past perfect simple vs past perfect continuous

6. Complete the sentences with had or had been.

• I didn’t want to watch the film because I _______________ seen it before.


• Sophie _______________ working all day and was feeling tired.
• By the time we arrived at the party, all the food _______________ gone.
• He _______________ driving for six hours when he had the accident.
• We were so late that by the time we arrived, the concert _______________ started.
• She _______________ running hard and was red in the face.
• Marc didn’t pack his case until after he _______________ called for a taxi.
• They _______________ thinking about moving to France for some time.
Media and news

7. Complete the sentences and use the missing words to fill in the puzzle. What is
the mystery word?

1. The TV company relies on a __________


for most of its income.
2. This newspaper has never discussed an
important i__________.
3. Reporters interviewed an e__________
who saw everything that happened.
4. I first found out about this story when it
appeared on my n__________.
5. That h__________ gives the wrong
impression of the story.
6. Everyone thinks the minister was the
s__________ of the story
7. I buy this magazine to get all the latest
g__________ about celebrities.

Mystery word: __________

8. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. You don’t need all the words.

Advertising - gossip - issue - journalism - newsfeed - source - update - viewer

• My grandma isn’t a typical _______________ for a TV show about pop music.


• We are going back to our reporter for the latest _______________ on this story.
• We report a lot on the _______________ of teen violence.
• Can we trust the _______________ of this story?
• The _______________ lost her voice while reading the news.
• The _______________ of the article made me want to read it.

9. Correct the underlined words

• The writing at the top of a newspaper article is called a story. _______________


• When you say that someone is responsible for something bad, you admit them to
it. _______________
• Someone who sees a crime happening is called a viewer. _______________
• If you react to doing something, you tell someone not to do it because it is
dangerous. _______________
• The update of a news story is the person who gives it to a journalist.
_______________

be/get used to

10. Complete the captions with the words in the box.

get used to - ’s used - gets used to - got used to - weren’t used to

• I’ll never _______________ getting up so early!


• Our footballers struggled because they _______________ the hot weather.
• I hated living in a city at first, but I’ve _______________ it now.
• After 20 years as a teacher, she _______________ explaining things clearly.
• I’m sure Scott will enjoy the job when he_______________ it.

11. Choose the correct answers.

• It doesn’t feel too cold once you get / got / have been used to it.
• Peter is feeling a bit anxious because he doesn’t get / isn’t / gets used to
travelling without his parents.
• At first it was strange to be so high up, but I soon have got / was / got used to it.
• Is Becky / Does Becky get / Has Becky been used to cooking for so many people
yet?
• Charlie gets / is / doesn’t get used to the hard work of farming, and he enjoys it.
• Bella has only had this job a few weeks, and she hasn’t been / hasn’t got / didn’t
get used to speaking in public yet.

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