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Section 4 - Language Focus
Unit 1. Kindness towards Differences

We use past tense verbs to talk about past events in a story. We use
these verbs to:
• create actions (shake - shook): The yellow ducklings shook their
wings.
• show a process of thinking (think - thought): A Mother Duck
thought about her eggs.
• identify something with our senses (see - saw): The Mother
Duck saw ive yellow ducklings.
• express something (say - said): “You are all so cute!”, said the
Mother Duck.
• connect information (is/am/are - was/were): The Ugly Duckling
was gray and shy.

(Source: Derewianka and Jones, 2016)

Now try to do the following activities about past events in the Ugly
Duckling story (Parts 1 and 2).

a. Complete the sentences with verbs in past tense forms based on
the pictures.

A Mother Duck sat on Five duck eggs __________
her nest.

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