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Użycie czasów past simple i past perfect
Here is the six o’clock news from ITC, on Monday the 25th of April.
Our reporter in Nepal (1) telephoned (telephone) us ten minutes ago and (2) said (say) that Jane Tomkins and her partner, are on top of the World today. They (3) reached (reach) the top of Mount Everest half hour ago. Our reporter spoke to another climber on the expedition.
REPORTER: Are Jane and Ann still on the top of Mount Everest?
CLIMBER: No, they (4) have started (start) their return journey.
REPORTER: How long (5) did they spend (spend) up there?
CLIMBER: About 10 minutes. They (6) took (take) some photographs of each other.
REPORTER: Are there in good health?
CLIMBER: Well, they’re both tired, but they’re fine.
The President of Volponia, Madame Fernoff, (7) arrived (arrive) in Britain last night. Madame Fernoff (8) has been (be) President since 1985. She said she was very happy to be in Britain.
At yesterday’s meeting of European finance ministers, Jack Delaney, the Irish Finance Minister, (9) said (say), ‘I am going to leave my job soon. I (10) have worked (work) very hard and I want to spend more time with my family.’ Mr Delaney (11) has been (be) Irish Finance Minister for 5 years.
Last night, Manchester United (12) won (win) the football league championship. The team (13) has won (win) the championship three times now – the first time (14) was (be) in 1986. In their final game yesterday, Bryan Riggs (15) scored (score) the winning goal. Riggs (16) has been (be) with the team since he (17) left (leave).
And the weather. We (18) have had (have) a lot of rain over the country since the beginning of the week and unfortunately this will continue until the weekend. For your information, last week (19) was (be) the wettest April week for 100 years.
W tekście podkreślono słowa, które wskazują na użycie danego czasu.
W zadaniach tego typu pomocne są charakterystyczne słowa i wyrażenia.
Słowa charakterystyczne dla Past Simple to:
- last (Sunday, year, month...)
- ago (2 months ago)
- In (year)
- yesterday
- then
Słowa charakterystyczne dla Past Perfect to m.in.:
- already
- ever
- never
- just
- yet
- for
- since