TENSE FORMS (5) FCE USE OF ENGLISH

FCE USE OF ENGLISH

TENSE FORMS (5)

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Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past forms, then match the tenses with the correct description. When she 1) ____was___ (be) only fifteen Helen 2) ________ (leave) school without any qualifications. Nevertheless, she 3) ________ (be) very ambitious and 4) ________ (want) to work in the fashion industry. Luckily she 5) ________ (find) a job immediately as an assistant in a small fashion company. While she 6) ________ (work) there she 7) ________ (decide) to go to evening classes to get a qualification in business studies. Once she 8) ________ (successfully/complete) the course she 9) ________ (be/promoted) to the position of assistant manager. After she 10) ________ (do) that job for some years she 11) ________ (want) a change. She 12) ________ (think) of moving to London for some time, so she 13) ________ (apply) for a job which she 14) ________ (see) advertised in a fashion magazine. Helen 15) ________ (get) a job as the manager of a small but prestigious fashion company in central London. She 16) ________ (achieve) her ambition of becoming a successful businesswoman at last. a complete past actions not connected to the present with a stated or implied time reference. 5, _______ _______ _______   b action in the middle of happening at a stated past time _______ _______ _______ c action continuing over a period up to a specific time in the past _______ _______ _______ d complete action or event which happened at a stated past time _______ _______ _______ e past action which occurred before another action or before a stated past time _______ _______ _______ f the Past Perfect as the past equivalent of the Present Perfect _______ _______ _______

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Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past forms. Christopher Columbus 1) ___was born___ (be/born) in Italy in 1451. He 2) _____ (work) as a woollen cloth weaver with his father before he 3) _____ (begin) his nautical career at the age of 22. After several merchant voyages he 4) _____ (settle) in Lisbon, Portugal in 1478. By this time he 5) _____ (teach) himself Portuguese and Latin and 6) _____ (read) many geographical and navigational books. In the 1481 he 7) _____ (marry) Felipa Parestrello. They 8) _____ (have) one son, Diego. They 9) _____ (be/married) for two years when his wife 10) _____ (die). At this time he 11) _____ (work) for John II of Portugal. Columbus1 2) _____ (always/wish) to sail around the world westward but John II wouldn’t agree. Finally King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain 13) _____ (decide) to finance the voyage. He 14) _____ (set off) for the first time in April 1492. There 15) _____ (be) three ships; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and a crew of 90 men. They 16) _____ (have) many false alarms before they finally 17) _____ (spot) the “New World” at 02.00 on Friday the 12th of October, 1492. Columbus 18) _____ (make) another three voyages after this. He 19) _____ (retire) to Valladolid 12 years after his first voyage and in 1517 he 20) _____ (die) there.

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