157 4 Walls and bridges If you like, you can use these sentence starters: I think one reason people like to belong is … Belonging somewhere is important because … I feel I belong to/with … GRAMMAR 11 Work with irregular verbs Read the excerpt from Educated: That night, Dad dragged a pile of old army bags up from the basement. He said they were our “head for the hills” bags. We spent that night packing them with supplies—herbal medicines, water purifiers, flint and steel. Dad had bought several boxes of military MREs—Meals Ready-to-Eat—and we put as many as we could fit into our packs, imagining the moment when, having fled the house and hiding ourselves in the wild plum trees near the creek, we’d eat them. a) Write down all the verbs you find in this excerpt. Then, decide if the verbs are regular (Reg.) or irregular (Irr.). Example: said (Irr.) b) Write the infinitive of the irregular verbs and fill out the missing tense, either the past simple or the present perfect. Example: to say – said – have/has said c) Write a short text in the past simple using as many of the verbs as you can. Feel free to add more verbs to your text. You can revise irregular verbs on page 242 in the Reference section. Hæfniviðmið • Sýnt góð tök á orða- forða, meginreglum málnotkunar og notað tengiorð við hæfi.
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