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English Verb Practice Guide

The document provides examples of using the present perfect tense in Spanish. It includes a list of past participles for common verbs and sample sentences using the present perfect tense. It then discusses analyzing the use of verbs and tenses in the songs "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day. Key tasks include filling in blanks with correct verb forms, rewriting phrases using a specific tense, and ordering lines from the songs.

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English Verb Practice Guide

The document provides examples of using the present perfect tense in Spanish. It includes a list of past participles for common verbs and sample sentences using the present perfect tense. It then discusses analyzing the use of verbs and tenses in the songs "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day. Key tasks include filling in blanks with correct verb forms, rewriting phrases using a specific tense, and ordering lines from the songs.

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Present Perfect

a. Escribir el pasado participio de los siguientes verbos.

1. carry carried

2. go gone

3. break broken

4. catch caught

5. choose chosen

6. keep kept

7. draw drawn

8. teach taught

9. write written

b. Completar las oraciones con los verbos entre paréntesis en el presente perfecto.

Haven’t  puede ser have got hasn’t  puede ser has not

Have  puede ser ‘ve has  puede ser ‘s

a. I haven’t worked (not / work) today.


b. We have bought (buy) a new lamp.
c. We haven’t planned (not / plan) our holiday yet.
d. Where have you been (be) ?
e. He has written (write) five letters.
f. She hasn’t seen (not / see) him for a long time.
g. Have you been (be) at school?
h. School hasn’t started (not / start) yet.
i. Has he spoken (speak) to his boss?
j. No, he hasn’t had (have / not) the time yet.

Working with songs

“A Thousand Years” - Christina Perri


1- Escuchar la canción adjuntada a la actividad y completar los espacios en blanco con los verbos de la caja
agregándole estas terminaciones y haciendo los cambios correspondientes si fuera necesario: - ed, -ing, - s o -er.
WATCH BEAT STAND (x2) WAIT CLOSE BELIEVE BRING

Heart 1) beats fast

Colors and promises

How to be brave

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall

But 2) watching you stand alone

All of my doubt, suddenly goes away somehow

One step 3) closer

Chorus

I have died every day 4) waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

Time 5) stands still

Beauty in all she is

I will be brave

I will not let anything, take away

What's 6) standing in front of me

Every breath, every hour has come to this

Chorus

And all along I 7) believed, I would find you

Time has 8) brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

2- Encontrar estas frases dentro de la canción y reescribirlas. ¿Qué tiempo verbal se utiliza?
1. I / die /day

I have died

2. I / love / for / years

I have loved you for a thousand years

3. Time / bring / heart

Time has brought your heart to me

4. Every hour / come / this

Every hour has come to this

“Wake me up (when September ends)” - Green Day


1. Elegir las palabras correctas.

Summer / Spring has come and passed

The innocent / guilty can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Like my mother’s / father's come to pass

Eleven / seven years has gone so fast

Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain / pain again

Falling from the sky / stars

Drenched in my pain / rain again

Becoming who / what we are

2. Escribir los siguientes verbos en el tiempo verbal correspondiente: forget, end, can, rest, have

As my memory rests

But never forgets what I lost

Wake me up when September ends


Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

3. Leer estas oraciones y ponerlas en orden según la canción.

4 Here comes the rain again

1 Ring out the bells again

5 Falling from the stars

3 Wake me up when September ends

2 Like we did when spring began

7 Becoming who we are

6 Drenched in my pain again

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