EXTRA ACTIVITIES FOR 4 ESO

1. Complete with the right verbal tenses (present simple, present continuous, past
simple and past continuous, will or going to)

Julia _______ (study) in London this year, and she really loves ________ (be)
there.
Next summer my family ________________ (visit) New York
When you ________ (ring), I was having a bath, so I couldnt answer the
phone.
I usually _____________ (take) the bus to go home but today ____________
(walk)
When we were children we never ________ (throw) stones or ________ (break)
anything. We were very peaceful and quiet.
While my brothers ______ (study), I ______ (listen) to music in my room. I
didnt want to disturb them.
I ___________ (go) to Greece 2 years ago
She rarely _____________ (teach) that verbal tense in English
The cat ____________ (catch) the mouse last night
I think cars ____________(fly) in 2060

2. Completa las oraciones con past simple o present perfect:

- Wheres the car? Hill _________ (take) it. He ________ (need) it to go shopping.
- I _________ (buy) tickets for the match. Do you want to come with me?
- My grandfather _________ (go) to school in Ireland.
- I ___________ (change) my job. Why? I ____________ (not like) the hours.
- Look, I ___________(find) some money. Where _______ you ________ (find) it?
- Mike __________ (already lose) his new watch.
- The company ___________ (lose ) a lot of money last year.
- You can have the newspaper. I _____________ (finish) it.
- I __________ (study) maths from 1986 to 1998.
- How long _________ you _______ (know) Mary?
- __________ you ever __________ (write) a poem?
- Wheres Robert? He _____________ (just go ) out.
- Do you like skiing? I ____________ (not try) it.

3. Relative sentences. Join the two sentences by using a relative pronoun (who, which,
where, when, whose)

A man has gone to prison. He shot two policemen.

A bomb caused a lot of damage. It went off this morning.
A scientist has won the Nobel Prize. He discovered a new planet.
A footballer has been banned from playing again. He took drugs.
A little girl has been found safe and well. She had been missing since Tuesday.
A company has laid off thousands of workers. It owns Greenway supermarkets.
An old lady now wants to swim the English Channel. She did a parachute jump.
Complete the text with the words below.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, explorers 1. when
they travelled in South America. One explorer 2. everyone
when he went exploring there, not once, but several times. His name was Colonel Percy
Fawcett. On one trip, he couldnt find food for 20 days, but he never
3.
. Eventually, he managed to kill an animal and eat it. In
1925, he went to look for an ancient city in the Brazilian jungle. Some native people
saw him. They wanted him to 4. because it was too
dangerous. However, he continued and then something 5. .
He disappeared! According to some people, the natives killed him, but no one can
6.
this.
Complete the sentences with the words below.
advisor downfall fate throne loyalty outbreak treason
1. Many people believe that it isnt possible to change your .

2. The of war came as a surprise to everyone.

3. The minister was sent to prison for .

4. The Queen sent her to discuss the situation in the east of the country.

5. The King gave the lord a castle to thank him for his .

6. A revolution caused the of the government.

7. The House of Hanover came to the British in 1714.

Complete the text with the words below.

disturbed developing theories assumed revealed attempting looked into wonder turned out
On 22nd November, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the President of the USA, was assassinated as he was driving through
Dallas, Texas. When the police caught the murderer a man called Lee Harvey Oswald they 1.
it was a simple case of murder. However, when they 2. Oswalds personal history, it 3. that
this case was definitely not simple. The detectives were 4. by the fact that Oswald called himself a
communist and that he had married a Russian woman. People began to 5. was the Soviet Union behind
the assassination of the President of the United States? Then, Oswald was shot and killed by
a man called Jack Ruby. Was Ruby 6. to stop Oswald from saying too much to the police? Investigations
then 7. that Jack Ruby had connections to the Mafia. Since Kennedy had tried to fight crime and the Mafia,
people began 8. about why Lee Harvey Oswald had shot the president. It seems that we will never know
only Lee Harvey Oswald knew the truth.