VOCABULARY - ING FORMS Order the words to make coherent sentences. .
Order the sentence and put the ING word in the correct place. had gone violin The valuable earlier. missing years three.
Order the sentence and put the ING word in the correct place. prison Admitting that given meant crime were the a shorter the criminals sentence. to.
Order the sentence and put the ING word in the correct place. shop walked A into to antiques sell an it. man painting missing the holding.
Order the sentence and put the ING word in the correct place. idea with of suffering the from amnesia. up They came.
Order the sentence and put the ING word in the correct place. into hiding thieves five went years. for The.
PAST SIMPLE - WHEN AND WHILE Choose the correct options about the past simple and the use of when and while.
The wildfire ___ (sweep) across the hillside ___ the fire crews were evacuating the local people. was sweeping swept while when.
___ the tsunami ___ (approach) the coast, the government started evacuating the locals. when while was approaching approached.
The researches ___ (work) at the foot of the volcano ____ it exploded. worked were working while when.
___ the train derailed off the tracks, the emergency services ___ (try) to look for survivors. when while was trying tried.
Emma was taking her dog for a walk ___ she ___ (see) a lightning bolt hit a building. while when saw was seeing.
PAST SIMPE AND PAST CONTINUOUS Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
My friend Hiroto ___ (run) in between a doorway to protect himself.
Mr. and Mrs. Yamamoto ___ (drive) to the supermarket.
A large crack ___ (appear) in the road.
My sister Mio ___ (revise) on her computer.
Car and house alarms ___ (go off) in the streets.
WOULD AND USED TO Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.
I ___ (not read) a lot but now I love books. would read didn't used to read didn't use to read used to read.
I ___ (be) sick very often when I was a kid. would be didn't use to be used to be wouldn't be.
My friends and I ___ (bring) a packed lunch with us to school. would bring didn't used to bring wouldn't bring didn't use to bring.
I ___ (love) walking to school every morning as a kid. would love didn't use to love used to love would loved.
How ___ you ___ (travel) to school in the mornings? wouldn't / travel do / used to travel are / use to travel did / use to travel.
PAST PERFECT Write sentences adding the particles needed to form the past perfect tense correctly.
I / never / experience / an earthquake / before.
Jessica / just / phone / the police / when / the emergency services / arrived.
They / live / in that accommodation / since / the tsunami.
Jamie / already / eat / before / he left / the house.
Zoe / never / receive / an award / before.
PAST PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE Identify which event occurred first and then rewrite the sentences using the correct grammar tenses.
A snake escaped from a pet store. The shop assistant left the cage open.
The boat sank off of the coast of Scotland. The boat hit some rocks.
The miners were rescued. The miners spent twenty-five days trapped underground. .
They arrived at the airport. They realized the airport cancelled all the flights.
He didn't leave the storm shelter. He was there after the storm hit.
READING COMPREHENSION Read the news article and answer the activities based on the reading.
Mega Earthquake and Tsunami
by Gillian Frost (weather correspondent)
At 14.46pm on the 11th March 2011, Japan experienced a powerful earthquake. It reached a magnitude of 9.0 and even though it lasted 6 minutes, it left parts of the country completely destroyed.
The earthquake struck close to the north coast, about 250 miles from Tokyo. It triggered a super tsunami which swept inland near the city of Sendai. Waves reached heights of up to 405 metres and travelled 6 miles inland. The Japanese National Police Agency reported that 15,883 people were killed and another 6,145 were injured during the disaster. Around 129,225 buildings were destroyed.
Jeremy Michael, an English teacher working in Japan at the time, described the whole event. ‘It was like a horrific dream,’ he recalls. He was teaching a class of primary school children when the earthquake hit. He said it had felt like it was never going to end. Crouching under their desks while it was happening, when they finally went outside they were met with more danger. Children were panicked and many were crying. Tsunami alarm bells were also ringing, he remembers, warning the town to evacuate immediately to higher ground.
Within 10 minutes, they had all managed to reach the safety of a train station high up on a hill. He recalls looking back and seeing the wave approaching rapidly. Water had already flooded the school. The tsunami waves had destroyed most of the town and everyone was made homeless. Jeremy and his class waited for an hour on the hill until the water returned back to normal levels. It was snowing and the temperatures were freezing.
In Utatsu alone, where Jeremy was living, only
9,000 survivors from 18,000 residents had been confirmed. Millions of people suffered across Japan. It was the single worst natural disaster they had ever experienced.
1. MATCH THE INFORMATION WITH THE NUMBERS. number of people who survived height of the tsunami waves number of inhabitants in Utatsu minutes the earthquake lasted magnitude of the earthquake number of people who were injured.
WRITING Use the expressions for contrasting ideas in the sentences given correctly.
Firefighters were unable to control the blaze, ____ there were a large number of firefighters. despite even though.
The firefighters were unable to control the blaze. ____, there were a large number of fire crews at the scene. However Even though.
___ the fire crews had been at the scene, the firefighters were unable to control the blaze. Although Despite.
___ the numbers of fire crews at the scene, firefighters were unable to control the blaze. Nonetheless Despite.
A large number of fire crews were at the scene, ___, the firefighters were unable to control the blaze. nonetheless in spite of.
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