TP 3ro Previas Integrador
TP 3ro Previas Integrador
TP 3ro Previas Integrador
1) Put the verbs in brackets into PRESENT SIMPLE or PRESENT CONTINUOUS Tense.
2) Read the following paragraph from Father Christmas spends the night (Papá Noel duerme en
casa) by Samanta Schweblin complete with the SIMPLE PAST
https://www.shortstoryproject.com/stories/ father-christmas-spends-the-night/
We 1____________ (do) something very terrible, and sometimes I’m ashamed of it: we
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_____________ (jump) in front of her for a while, but Mummy just looked away.
Then we 3
___________ (make) her a hat out of newspaper, 4
_________ (try) it on her
in different ways and left it there all afternoon, but she 5
____________ (not move). I
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________________ (take) the hat off before Daddy got home. I 7
___________ (know)
that Mummy wouldn’t say anything, but I still 8
__________ (feel) bad.
Then Christmas 9
___________ (come). Marcela made her special roast chicken with
horrible vegetables, but because it 10
____________(be) a special night she also
made me chips. Daddy 11
_______________ (ask) Mummy to get up from the sofa
and eat dinner with us. He moved her carefully to the table – Marcela had set the
table with a red tablecloth, green candles and the plates we used for visitors – sat
her down at one end and stepped back a few paces, still looking at her. I suppose
he 12
____________ (think) that it might work, but when he’d moved far enough
away she 13
_________ (get) up and went back to the sofa. So we moved the things
to the coffee table in the living-room and 14
_________ (eat) in there with her. The
television 15
__________ (be) on, of course, and the news was doing a piece about a
lot of poor people who’d got loads of presents and food from richer people, so they
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______________ (be) very happy.
COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES
3) Look at the highlighted words in the sentences from Father Christmas spends the night and
complete the chart.
“He said that a (1) good Christmas tree was (2) important this year.”
“The Christmas tree (…) was (3) bigger than Daddy – it was huge –“
“Christmas must be the (4) worst season for them.”
“But Mummy didn’t get (5) better.”
“The news programme was showing a piece about a lot of (6) poor people
who’d got loads of presents and food from (7) richer people, (…)”
“At the end of the school day, I held Augusto’s mummy’s hand. She was (8)
beautiful.”
“He wasn’t as (9) fat as on television, and he looked so tired he could barely
stand.”
“Daddy told Mummy that he was going to kill the both of them, and Mummy
told him that if he was so (10) happy with his friend, why couldn’t she be
friends with Father Christmas?”