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Past perfect – Assignment 2

A-Read the text and complete it with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets

The people who live in some parts of Neuquén ________________ (have) a strange hobby.
Families from this region ____________ (go) dinosaur-searching at the weekends.
Gabriel Lopez, a 15-year-old boy, ______________ (be) interested in dinosaurs for five years.
When he was ten years old his father _________________ (take) him to the Museum of La
Plata to see a large collection of prehistoric animals. In 1999 Gabriel _____________ (find) his
first dinosaur bone. He was very excited because he had never touched a real bone before. He
treated it with great care. He _____________ (be) afraid he could break it.
One morning he _________________ (walk) around his father’s farm when he
______________ (discover) some bones of a meat-eater. At first he was not sure if they
belonged to a prehistoric animal. So that afternoon he took the bones to a paleontologist who
confirmed the origin of the bones.

B-Read the text again and answer or make questions

1-_________________________________________________?
For five years.

2-__________________________________________________?
To the Museum of La Plata.

3-When did Gabriel find his first dinosaur bone?


_________________________________________________.

C- Complete the sentences with past perfect or simple past

1-Lisa (do) had done the homework when her mother (arrive) arrived home from work.

2-Last month I went to Brazil. I was (be) very nervous because I hadn't flown (not fly) before.

3-Ann started (start) to clean the house after all the guests had left (leave)

4-Paul reserved (reserve) the table before he had gone (go) to the restaurant.

5-I had (have) a Chemistry exam yesterday. I studied (study) a lot for it.

D-Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs in
brackets

Japan is the country with the most centenarians: over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura,
the man with the longest lifespan ever, was (be) born in 1897, the year that Bram Stoker wrote
(write) Dracula. Kimura left (leave) school at fourteen and got (get) a job in a post office. While
he was working (work) there, he met (meet) his future wife Yae. He had been (be) a postal
worker for 45 years when he retired (retire) in 1962. But he didn't stop (not stop) working! He
became (become) a farmer! In an interview just before he had died (die) at the age 116, he said
he wasn’t sure why he lived (live) so long. ‘Maybe it’s thanks to the sun,’ he said (say). ‘I’m
always looking up to the sky.’

E-Write four questions about the text and answer them (wh- and yes/no questions)

1-________________________________________________?
________________________________________________.

2- ________________________________________________?
________________________________________________.

3-_________________________________________________?
_________________________________________________.

4- _________________________________________________?
_________________________________________________.

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