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English Form 5 Unit 2
Grammar (Language Awareness) Textbook page: P.20 – 23
Module DSKP Practice Extra
Practice 4
• The past simple and the past continuous
• used to, would, be/get used to
Complete the text. Use the past simple or the past continuous.
GRAMMAR NOTES
An unidentified flying object (UFO), also called a flying
Past Simple
saucer, is an optical phenomenon not readily identifiable to the • The past simple tense is used
observer. UFOs (1) became (become) a major subject to talk about things that we
did in the past.
of interest in America following the development of rocketry Past Continuous
after World War II and were thought by some researchers to be • The past continuous tense is
used to talk about things that
intelligent extraterrestrial life (2) visiting (visit) Earth. were in progress at a stated
time in the past.
The first well-known UFO sighting (3) occurred (occur) in Used to
1947 when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group • We use ‘used to’ for actions
that we did regularly in the
of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington past.
while (4) flying (fly) his small plane. Arnold estimated Be/Get used to
• We use ‘be used to’ to talk
the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand about something that is usual
miles per hour and said they (5) moved (move) “like saucers or familiar.
skipping on water.”
Earlier in 1639, the Puritans were the first to see strange shining
lights in America. In a diary written by John Winthrop’s, a governor I read a book last night.
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he recounted a most unusual I was reading a book last night.
John was reading a book at ten
o’clock last night.
event that had caused a stir among the English immigrants. John read a book at ten o’clock
There were three men who had been rowing a boat in the Muddy last night.
River, which (6) flowed (flow) through swampland and emptied I used to travel before the
pandemic.
into a tidal basin in the Charles River, when they saw a great light I am used to travel before the
pandemic.
in the night sky. “When it (7) stood (stand) still, it flamed up, I am used to travel every school
holiday.
and was about three yards square,” the governor reported, “when I used to travel every school
it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine.” Over the course holiday.
of two to three hours, the boatmen said that the mysterious light Info
“ran as swift as an arrow” (8) darting (dart) back and forth
between them and the village of Charlestown, a distance of
approximately two miles. For more information about
the difference between Past
When the strange apparition finally (9) faded (fade) Simple and Past Continuous,
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themselves one mile upstream—as if the light had transported past-continuous-and-past-simple
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