33 Revision: Narrative tenses Read Jedrek’s blog post about a new after-school club. Write the missing verbs in the correct tense on a separate sheet of paper. LANGUAGE 23 a Strategies box If you write the answers to these revision exercises on a separate sheet of paper, you can do them again and check your progress. Jayjay Can you club? Dear friends and fellow after-school clubbers, let me tell you about the cool new club you can join next term. I (1) … (be) part of the group suggesting this after-school club last Friday, and, honestly, it (2) … (be) no wonder we (3) … (win) because, while we (4) … (prepare) for the discussion, we (5) … (work) hard to come up with persuasive ideas. We (6) … (use) this new shared brainstorming platform, and Otis once (7) … (add) ideas at two in the morning! So, it’s not surprising the discussion (8) … (go) in our favour, and that the others (9) … (have) a hard time arguing against us. During the discussion, I (10) … (feel) that the sports club group (11) … (not play) fair because they (12) … (interrupt) us every few minutes. I (13) … (think) quite a lot of students (14) … (be) annoyed by this, because in the end, an overwhelming majority of two thirds of them (15) … (vote) for our idea, and I (16) … (be) very grateful for their support. Our new club (17) … (be) one of my favourite hobbies. I (18) … (start) a couple of years ago when I (19) … (stay) with my grandfather for the whole summer, and he (20) … (show) me how to do it. The first couple of times we (21) … (try) it out, I (22) … (fail) miserably, but then I (23) … (get) the hang of it. Did you know that there (24) … (be) worldwide competitions? Participants have to record how many of our feathered friends they can spot in a given time. In 2017, a lady called Rachel Whitson from New York (25) … (start) one with a handful of friends, and they (26) … (have) such a great time that they (27) … (decide) to continue. So, the next year, they (28) … (organise) a more formal contest, and since then it (29) … (take place) all over the world during the months of April and May. I (30) … (enter) one such competition last year, and it was a great experience. I (31) … (not win), but it (32) … (be) the spirit of it that (33) … (count). So, I hope that in the coming term, I’ll be able to share that spirit with you and show you how much fun you can have … Can you guess what kind of club he is writing about? b Something surprising that I’ve learned is … An activity I want to try (again) is … Looking back: Complete the way2go! learning portfolio for Unit 02 (online code 73k2kg). Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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