FILL IN THE SPACES WITH THE CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN SIMPLE PAST TENSE. •4) THE SUN (SLOWLY, DROP) __DROPPED BELOW THE HORIZON AS WE WATCHED.

5) THE PRINCIPAL (KINDLY, SPEAK) __SPOKE TO THE CRYING CHILD.

6) THE CHILDREN (NORMALLY, WAIT)___WAITS FOR THE BUS ON THE CORNER OF WALNUT AND ELM STREETS.

7) THE OLD HOUSE (STILL, LOOK) ___LOOKS JUST AS IT HAD WHEN HE LAST VISITED.

8) THE ARTIST (QUICKLY, DRAW) ___DRAWS A CARTOON AS THE CROWD WATCHED.

9) MRS. CAMPOS (PATIENTLY, WAIT) ___WAITS FOR THE NURSE TO CALL HER INTO THE EXAMINING ROOM.

10) THE PASSENGERS (HAPPILY, CHEER) AS THEIR HOT AIR BALLOON LIFTED FROM THE GROUND.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief