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Nature's Warning! CHAPTER 3

TASK 1 Read the following poem
and change the underlined
verbs to Simple Past Tense. Verbs can be regular or irregular.
A Regular verbs form their past tense and
Man Never Learns past participle by adding '-ed':
The trees stand green and tall, Base Form Past Tense Past
The wind blows and branches sway, Participle
The leaves grow and flowers fall, walk walked walked
Birds chirp while animals play. laugh laughed laughed

But trees turn black and shrink, B Irregular verbs form their past tense and
Ashes fly when branches burn, past participle differently.
Man lights without a blink, Past
A bitter lesson is what they learn. Base Form Past Tense Participle

Man and beasts in fright they flee, cut cut cut
Birds and bees fall from grey skies, beat beat beaten
Clean air God makes for free, bend bent bent
But Man burns trees and never cries. forget forgot forgotten

Rani Parasuraman

TASK 2 Fill in the blanks with the correct verbs in Simple Past Tense.
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When my family . . . (move) to Rawang, we . . . (know) very little about the
cement factory that existed there. We were more excited about the fact that we could
actually afford the land, enjoy the fresh air and be far away from busy Kuala Lumpur.
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My father . . . (think) that we could use the pond at the back of our house to start a
fish farm.
However, shortly after moving to Rawang, my then two-year-old brother, Danial,
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. . . (become) sick. He . . . (suffer) from pneumonia, unexplained coughing and
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shortness of breath. A doctor . . . (check) Danial's medical file and . . . (say) that it
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could be because we lived in Rawang. I . . . (wonder) about his statement and . . .
(begin) my research.
10 (discover) that the number of children who used inhalers was growing. Our
I . . .
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fish 11 (die). Layers of whitish substances . . . (cover) the water. When Danial was
. . .
five, we 13 (rush) him to the hospital and the doctors 14 (put) him under close
. . .
. . .
observation six times in two months. Doctors confirmed that fine particles from the cement
factory had formed deposits in Danial’s lungs.
(Adapted from http://www.e-mjm.org/2000/v55n1/Cement_dust.pdf)

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