UNIVERSIDAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA                         

Prof. Randall Torres Quirós

Analysis                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

   _NAME:  ___________________________       _{5% = 30pts (1pt each)}

   _Date:  ____________________________      

 

    Topic:  SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    Instruction #1:

    Read this article and fill in the blanks with the correct verb in the Past Tense.

 

A FAMOUS SINGER

 

It __________ (be) late Monday night, on December 8^th, 1980.  A man and his wife __________ (pay) a taxi-driver and __________ (walk)

slowly to the large apartment building where they __________ (live).  The man walked behind his wife.  Suddenly someone __________ (call) …..

“John” !!. and when the man __________ (turn) to answer, he was shot.  “Do you know what you just __________ (do)? the doorman

__________ (ask) the killer.  “I just __________ (shoot) John Lennon,” the killer answered.

 

John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England, on October 9^th, 1940.  When he was only five, his father __________ (leave) home and John

__________ (go) to live with an aunt.  He __________ (study) at Doverdale Primary School, but he always __________  (think) it was terribly

boring.  When he was still very young, he used to sing a lot and write about love.  He __________ (want) to become rich and famous.

 

John __________ (love) music, so one day his mother __________ (buy) him a guitar.  He never studied music, but he __________ (learn)

to play – and very well too.  At school he __________ (start) his first band, “The Quarrymen.” Then in 1956 he __________ (meet) Paul

McCartney, who was also a fine young musician.  Then George Harrison and Ringo Starr __________ (come), and in 1962 The Beatles were born.

 

They __________ (become) famous immediately.  People – young and old – __________ (buy) their records.   Lennon __________ (write)

beautiful music with his friend McCartney. He also wrote books and __________ (make) movies.  In the 1970’s, after The Beatles, __________

(make) their last record, Lennon __________ (live) quietly with his wife, Yoko, and their son.  But he __________ (be) still in the news. 

He and his wife __________ (work) hard for peace.  When he __________ (die), radio stations from New York to Moscow __________ (play)

his music, and they still do it today.  When a good man dies, his work still lives….

 

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   Instruction #2:

   In-class activity

   Listen to the song: “IMAGINE” and fill in the blanks (no points)

 

IMAGINE Imagine there’s no heaven It’s ____________ if you try No hell below us Above us only sky ____________ all the people living for today.   Imagine there’s no ____________ It isn’t hard to do                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too Imagine all the people ____________ life in peace

CHORUS You may say  I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one                                            I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one…   Imagine no possessions I wonder if ____________ can no need for greed or hunger a brotherhood of man Imagine all the ____________ Sharing all the world REPEAT CHORUS