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    The document discusses verbs in different tenses. It provides 5 examples with verbs in brackets that need to be changed to the correct tense. The examples discuss topics like an explorer's travels, a boy's dream to be an astronaut, a fashion designer's career, a train enthusiast, and debates around cloning.

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    Put the verbs in brackets into lh9 correct tense:

    Tom Wilson 1) .. (be) an explorer. He 2) . .(be) to nearly every country


    in the wor1cl, but the most exciting time he 3) . (evern...ave) was when he
    4). (go) to the Congo jungle. A magazine 5) ... (ask)himto
    retrace the route of a famous explorer who 6) .. (disappear) in the
    1920's. As he 7) . ..(follow) a small river he got separated from his guides.
    He 8) .. .. (go on) alone. hoping he 9) . .. (find) them, but instead
    he 10) .. .. (ellCOUnter) a group of natives. He 11) . . (stay) with
    them for several days and 12) .. . (find out) that a very old woman
    13) .. .(actually/meet) the famous explorer. She 14 ) . (know)
    howhe15) .. .... (die). Tom 16) .. .(become) very friendly with the
    natives and now he 17) .. .. (plan) to go back and see them again. He is sure
    they 18) . (welcome) him back.

    2 Put the verbs In br;,acktts Into the correct t1n11·


    When Francis Lee was a boy he 1) .. . (want) to be an astronaut. He
    2) . (wa tch ) TV ooe day in 1969 when he 3) . (see) Ne~
    Armstrong walk on the moon. Since th8fl he 4) .. (always/dream)of
    doing the same. Every night when there Is a full moon, he 5).. .. (stare) up at ii for
    hours and 6) .. .. ~magine) himself walking around on II. Al the moment,
    however, he 7) . .(work) as a night-watchman at a meat factory. He 8) .
    ... (do) the same job since he left school fifteen years ago, but he still hOpes
    that one day his dream 9) .. (come) true. He 10) .. . .. (hear) that
    in the21 " centurythey 11) . ... (sell) tickets to ny to the moon. For
    this reason he 12) .. .(save) half of his wages every month for the past
    two years.

    3 Put the verbs in brackets Into the correct 11011·


    Sue Thomas is a fashion designer. She 1) .. .. (make) clothes ever
    since she 2) .(be) a young girt. She 3) .. (gel) her first job in a ciothes
    factory when she was sixteen. She 4) .. . (sew) buttons on to a shir1 one
    day when she 5). . (have) a brilliant idea for a design-After she 6) ..
    (speak) to her bank manager, she got a loan and she 7) . ..(open) her own little
    workshop. Now she 8) ... . (make) lots of money. Next year she 9) ..
    ... (open) a shop which will sell all her own designs. She 10)
    (sell) clothes to a lot of famous people. including film stars and singers,
    and she 11) (think) she will be very nch soon.

    4 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense·


    Kevin Adams 1)... .(love)tralns. Hefirst2)... ... (see) one
    when he was four years old and he 3) .. (think) it was great. He 4)... .(go)
    to a different railway station every week and 5) ... .(write down) the engine
    number of every train he sees. He 6) ... ..(do) th is since he was eight. By
    the lime he was fifteen he 7).. "collect) over 10.000 different engine
    numbers in various counties. Once, w'hile he 8) ... (stand) ina station in
    Cheshire he saw something very unusual . He 9)... ..(wait) fOf over an
    hour fOf a train to go by when suddenly he 10)... ..(see) a very old steam train
    coming down the track. It 11).. (noVstop) at the station and, as it was
    passing, Kevin noticed that all the passengers 12).. (wear) old-fashioned
    clothes. When he told lhe station guard about this. the poor man turned pale. He said that
    no steam train 13)... (pass) through that station for years, and that the
    last one 14)... .(crash), killing everyone oo board.

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    Ever since IJol-Jlhe sheep was cloned in 1997, scientists, poi1icians and theologians
    1) ... ... (discuss)lheQU8Stion of'o\hettlerorrotlhe doringdh...nwt bangs
    2) ...• .(shoLtilalow). lfdonrgdoes become a reality one day, it
    3) (raise)manyquestions. Manysdentistswantdoring4~-- ...(be)legaised.
    They believe lhat if it 5) .... ..(be) legal to done h.Jman beings, it 6) ... ....(be)
    possibleklaeatea superior race. Manychildless CXlt4)les alsowishlhegovem,ent n--·
    .(abY) dolling. If this 8) ... ...(be) the arty w;ry lor you to have a chid, you rrirjlt agree
    with them too.

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