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Fill in the Blanks: Past Tense Practice

The document provides a practical task with fill-in-the-blank questions using past tense verbs like 'was' and 'were'. It also asks to identify whether 'was' or 'were' is correct in several sentences. There is then a longer passage about Benjamin Franklin's life and accomplishments with blanks to fill in using the past tense forms of various verbs.

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Fill in the Blanks: Past Tense Practice

The document provides a practical task with fill-in-the-blank questions using past tense verbs like 'was' and 'were'. It also asks to identify whether 'was' or 'were' is correct in several sentences. There is then a longer passage about Benjamin Franklin's life and accomplishments with blanks to fill in using the past tense forms of various verbs.

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Practical Task 2nd Term

A) Fill in the blanks. Use WAS / WERE:


1. Mary and Susan …… were ……… ill yesterday.
2. The weather …………………….. very hot last Saturday.
3. The students …………………….. at the theater last night.
4. Betty …………………………….. in Germany last summer.
5. My brother and I …………………….. at the football stadium on Saturday.
6. …………………………. it cold yesterday?

B) Choose WAS or WERE and circle it:


1. He was / were a policeman.
2. We was / were very happy.
3. Was / Were you happy?
4. They wasn’t / weren’t interested in.
5. I was / were at school.
6. It wasn’t / weren’t expensive.
7. Was / Were she your teacher?

C) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:


Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He ………………… (be)
break swim have make sit write spend buy drink lose wash the fifteenth of the seventeen
children of a poor candlemaker. He …………………(go ) to school only one year. He
…………………………… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of fourteen he
…………………………… (decide) to be a writer. He …………………. (copy) the great stories
of famous writers and later he …………………………… (become) the best known writer in
his time. When he ………………….. (be) seventeen, he ………………………… (leave)
Boston and …………………………… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his
pocket. He ……………………… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and
……………………. (retire) from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he
………………………. (spend) the next forty years for his government. He
………………………. (play) an important role in the founding of the USA. Franklin
……………… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He ……………. (draw) electricity
from a cloud on a kite string. He ……………………… (write) one of the first text books on
electricity. He ……………………… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other practical
tools. He ……………………… (make) a study of water and ………………………. (discover)
many principles of hydrodynamics. He even ………………………… (invent) bifocal glasses
when he was seventy-eight and ……………………… (need) them himself. Franklin
……………… (do) all these things and many more because he …………….……… (believe)
he ………………………… (can).

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