Activity 2.3 Using the past tenses 10 minutes
1. In the following passage, former President Nelson Mandela writes how, as an
older man, he visited the village in which he had grown up. He writes in the
past tense and refers to a time further back in the past. In your workbook,
write down the number and the correct tense of each verb in brackets. The
context should help you to decide which tense to use.
In seeing my village again after so many years, I was greatly struck by what
a) (change) and what had not ... What had endured was the warmth and
simplicity of the community, which b) (take) me back to my days as a boy.
But what c) (disturb) me was that the villagers d) (seem) as poor if not poorer
than they e) (be) then. Most people still f) (live) in simple huts with dirt floors,
with no electricity and no running water. When I was young, the village
was tidy, the water pure and the grass green and unsullied as far as the eye
could
see...
... But now the village g) (be) unswept, the water polluted and
the countryside littered with plastic bags and wrappers. We h) (not know) of
plastic when I was a boy, and though it surely improved life in some ways, its
presence in the village i) (appear) to me to be a kind of blight. Pride in the
communityj) (seem) to have vanished.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

Read the sentence. what is the verb tense and aspect? susan will be working as a camp counselor this summer. oofuture progressivefuture perfectsimple futurepresent progressiveo

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile