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A2 · Unit 7 · Practice

Practice: tell us about your week

Putting everything together: recounting what was done in the past, denying what was not done, and organizing it with the four sequencers.

Do the four exercises in a row and without looking at the solutions. Exercise 4 is the one that truly measures the level: counting out loud, without paper, is different from filling in blanks.

1. Listen to the entire track and order Andrea's morning from one to five.

  1. He woke up and drank water
  2. He went to the gym
  3. He ran for half an hour
  4. She swam for a while
  5. He went back home and had breakfast
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  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5

2. Complete with the past tense of the verb in parentheses.

  1. Last Monday I ___ to the sports centre. (go)
  2. My knee ___ a lot after the game. (hurt)
  3. We ___ down and rested for ten minutes. (sit)
  4. She ___ the yoga class instead of the weights. (choose)
  5. They ___ a lot of water during the match. (drink)
  6. I ___ eight hours and I was fine. (sleep)
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  1. went
  2. hurt
  3. sat
  4. chose
  5. drank
  6. slept

3. Write the same sentence in the negative.

  1. He swam in the sea last summer.
  2. They began the class at seven.
  3. I ate before the training session.
  4. She brought her running shoes.
  5. We were tired after the walk.
  6. My back hurt on Sunday morning.
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  1. He didn't swim in the sea last summer.
  2. They didn't begin the class at seven.
  3. I didn't eat before the training session.
  4. She didn't bring her running shoes.
  5. We weren't tired after the walk.
  6. My back didn't hurt on Sunday morning.

4. Say your own name out loud. Record yourself and listen to it afterwards.

  1. Tell me what you did last Saturday, with first, then, after that and finally
  2. Say three things you did not do last week
  3. Describe a time when something hurt after sport
  4. Say what sport you do, play or go, and how often
  5. Ask another person three questions about last weekend
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  1. Her own response. Four sentences in the past tense are expected, each opened by a different sequencer, and "finally" only once and at the end.
  2. Their own answer. All three with "I didn't" and the base form of the verb: "I didn't go", never "I didn't went".
  3. Her own response. The body part is expected with the possessive, “my knee”, and the verb “hurt”, which does not change in the past tense.
  4. Their own answer. The verb has to match the sport: “play” with a ball, “go” with activities in “-ing”, “do” with the rest.
  5. Their own answer. In A2, it's enough to use "Did you…?" followed by the base form; past questions are dealt with in depth in unit 8.

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