UNIVERSITY EAN

Guideline 3: Past events

Activity 1 and 2

Document prepared by

Yuri Vanessa Barrios Ríos

BOGOTA, MAY 25 OF 2020

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 SUMMARY

The present work consists describe past events or past actions. The main emphasis is on grammar
structure. In this way the presence is evidenced regular and irregular verbs.

This is reflected in the preparation of a writing and the recording of an audio, which is carried
out with the support of the books that will be cited at the end of this work, YouTube videos, and
the teacher's support.

The familiarization with basic vocabulary and grammatical structure is the start of a good
command of English.

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 INTRODUCTION

This guide includes the study of simple past, verbs regular and irregular and structure
grammatical that serve to writing a biography and describing a past event in the life.

To form the past simple with regular verbs the infinitive is used and ending ed to the is added
and it works for all pronouns. Clearly for verbs that end in e only d is added.

There are many irregular verbs in English. Unfortunately, there is no established standard for
forming them.

The structure for the simple past is as follows:

 Affirmative
Subject + principal verb + complement

 Negative: The main verb does not change

The auxiliary did undergo the change in verb tense, indicating that the preceding action has
occurred at some point in the past. Therefore, this action, represented in the main verb of the
sentence, does not need to be conjugated in the past simple.

Subject + auxiliary verb + not + principal verb + complement

 Interrogative

Here, the auxiliary verb must always start the sentence and, unlike the previous forms, the
auxiliary verb does not precede the main verb

Auxiliary verb + subject + principal verb + complement

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Written 1
1.1 Audio recording 2
1.3 Self -Assessment 2

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 1. Written

Yuri Vanessa Barrios Rios was director of the financial area at the company Avon Colombia.
She was born in Bogotá on December 31, 1997

Vanessa lived in Funza throughout her life; however, he worked from the age of 22 in Bogotá. It
was in Bogotá that he developed his professional career and specialization. In 2019 she had her
first job as an advisor at EAN University where she studied.

Since he was born he lived with his mother and two sisters in an apartment that his mother
bought in the center of Funza. She lived with her mother until she was 26 years old.

In 2025 he graduated as an economist. Then in 2027 he graduated as a specialist in financial

management from EAN University.

She married in December 2027 with her longtime boyfriend. They met at a dessert stand in
Funza Park. Then they had two children.

She was characterized by being punctual, disciplined, respectful, empathetic, prudent and loving.
During his life he always liked helping abandoned animals and providing support to people who
were in a difficult situation. Despite this, he had negative attitudes with which he hurt many
people I love.

Vanessa was important because for her perseverance and discipline she paid for her studies and
became consolidated step by step thanks to God as director of the financial area of a major
company.

At work she was very kind and loving to each of the colleagues and had excellent human
qualities combined with a bit of temper.

During her life Vanessa saved enough to travel to different places in the world with her family
and dog. Went to Canada, Brazil, Mexico, France and clearly to several cities in Colombia.

For Vanessa something very important was her dog Sashi. She picked up Sashi in a very
dilapidated condition on a terrace where she was given water and sun. Sashi was so important
that he was her life partner until he accompanied her to her graduation and marriage.

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In his life he had different obstacles such as enduring the departure of Sashi and the departure of
his mother-in-law. Additional presented personal and family problems that are never were
missing. Despite this he always kept a smile on his face.

1.2 Audio recording

https://voca.ro/9bHd4PocHpU

1.3 Self -Assessment

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 Describe past events
or situations, identify
main ideas, organize
and structure
information, compare
and describe daily
routine

I don't have any The best strategy

questions for the was to carry out all
teacher, I learned a the activities in the
lot with you. proposed book
Thanks because the
exercises and texts
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line with the final
Vanessa work
Barrios
Rios

I will remember to read

English texts to identify
main ideas and look for
more information. The first is to learn
On the other hand I have as to pronounce better
a task to listen to music and and the second
watch movies in this from that to listen
language to improve my to a conversation in
pronunciation more detail

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 CONCLUSIONS
 Describe an action or event in the past is essential to mastering a conversation in English
 The past simple is used for narrations or actions of long periods of time in the past, such
as the Spanish imperfect.
 To make the correct grammatical structure is essential to make sense of the sentence

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 BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

 Lebeau, I & Rees, G (2014). New Language Leader. Elementary.MyEnglishLab. Pearson

Education.
 The Free dictionary https://bit.ly/2HOgrvu
 Cambridge dictionary https://bit.ly/2T8hsUH
 Merriam Webster https://bit.ly/2HKUZrC
 Collins (diccionario español-inglés) https://bit.ly/2v88bnr