91 2 Communication b) Using the elements typical of a short story, plan a story based on your freewriting in task a). Remember that your story should connect with the topic communication. Elements typical of a short story: few characters, short time span, a conflict which is the focus of the story, often has a surprise ending GRAMMAR 32 Work with irregular verbs Read the text: Back in the room Iwrote the boy’s temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules. “Do you want me to read to you?” “All right. If you want to,” said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in bed and seemed very detached from what was going on. a) Find the irregular verbs and write them down. b) Write the infinitive of the irregular verbs from task a) and conjugate them in the past simple and the past participle. Example: to speak – spoke – spoken c) Use the verbs to write sentences of your own in the past simple. Example: We spoke about our plans for summer last night. 33 Negation Choose three sentences you wrote in task 38 c) and rewrite them using negation. You can choose to write in the present or the past tense. Example: Ihave not (haven’t) spoken to him all day. Idid not (didn’t) speak out. My neighbour never speaks to me. Hæfniviðmið • Sýnt góð tök á orða- forða, meginreglum málnotkunar og notað tengiorð við hæfi.
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