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C. Follow-up activities
Write a paragraph about your grandmother. If you have not met her, ask
your parents what she was like, and write about her.

Grammar
A. Engage yourself
Curriculum Development Centre

Go through the following text and ¿nd out how past simple and past
continuous tenses are used.
James had four sons. They were lazy but robust and healthy. They did not use to
do anything. They used to wander around the village. One day in the spring while
James was sitting under the shadow of a guava tree, he decided to make his
lazy sons active. He called them to sit around him and said, “My sons, I have
buried a great treasure in the vineyard. Go and look for it.”As soon as he said,
they took a spade and started digging. They couldn’t ¿ nd any treasure there.
“Where did you bury the treasure? We almost dug the yard but couldn’t ¿ nd
it?” they asked desperately. “Wasn’t there any sign of treasure? Did you dig all
the corner of the vineyard?” he asked.
B. Time for grammar
1. Read the following story, and supply the correct form of the verbs in
brackets. CDC
Yesterday Bikash ……. (drive) his car when he ……. (see) a calf sitting in
the middle of the street. The calf ……. (watch) the car. He……. (stop) his
car and ……. (get) out of it. As he……. (get) out, the calf ……. (run) away.
He ……. (go) back to his car. When he……. (get) into the car, the
calf ……. (appear) and …….(sit) down on the road. He ……. (start) the
engine but the calf ……. (not move). He ……. (jump) out of the car and
shouted at the calf. The calf ……. (chase) him instead of moving away from
him. Bikash found green maize and ……. (throw) it at the calf. The
calf ……. (be) happy and started to munch it. While the calf …….
(eat) the maize, he ……. (drive) his car away.
2. Complete the sentences with the past simple or past continuous form
of the verbs in the brackets.
Example:
Did you see the ¿lm Pashupati Prasad last year?(you/see)

a. A: What was that terrible noise last night?
B: Sorry, it was my brother. He ……. for a singing competition.
(practise)
b. A: How was the game?
B: Terrible! We ……. by 6-0. (lose)
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