República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación Superior

Colegio Universitario de Administración y Mercadeo CUAM
Docente: Prof. Jhoanna Olmedillo Asignatura: Inglés I

ACTIVITY 1

1. - SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE (NEGATIVE FORM)

We form the negative of the simple present tense by putting do not or does
not before the verb. Note that after doesn’t, the verb doesn’t have the S of
the third person singular affirmative statement. Examples:
I don’t know
You don’t know
He doesn’t know
She doesn’t Know
It doesn’t know
We don’t know
You don’t know
They don’t know
The contractive forms don’t (DO NOT) and doesn’t (DOES NOT) are
generally used.
Change the following sentences form affirmative to negative. Use the
contracted forms.
EXAMPLE: I play tennis= I don’t play tennis
Andrea studies French every day= She doesn’t study French
every day.
1. - I work on the tenth floor.
2. - Mary likes to study English.
3. - They speak English well.
4. - The plane leaves at ten o’clock.
5. - He knows French perfectly.
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Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación Superior
Colegio Universitario de Administración y Mercadeo CUAM
Docente: Prof. Jhoanna Olmedillo Asignatura: Inglés I
6. - I fell well today.
7. - He eats lunch in the cafeteria every day.
8. - He smokes a lot.
9. - They live in Brooklyn.
10. - We need a fan in this room.
11. - We use our books in class
12. - I understand everything he says.
13. - She wants to visit Caracas.
14. - The child plays in the park every afternoon.

2. - TO BE (NEGATIVE AND QUESTION FORMS)

We form the negative of TO BE by placing not after the verb.
I am a student.
I am not a student.
We form questions with to be by placing the verb before de subject.
She is absent from class today.
Is she absent from class today?
Why is she absent from class today?
EXERCISES:
Change the following sentences from affirmative to negative.
1. - They are in Europe now.
2. - John is angry with you.
3. - He is very studious.
4. - He and she are cousins.
5. - Both sisters are tall.
6. - They are members of the country club.
7. - He is a good tennis player.
8. - The sky is very cloud today.
9. - The office of the principal is on the first floor.
10. - It is cold today.
 República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación Superior
Colegio Universitario de Administración y Mercadeo CUAM
Docente: Prof. Jhoanna Olmedillo Asignatura: Inglés I

3. - SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

The present tense is conjugated as follows:
I work
You work
He works
She works Third person (SINGULAR)
It works
We work
You work

The present tense is used to express action (or to help make a statement
about something), at the present time.
EXERCISES:
Give the correct present tense form of the verb in parentheses:
1. - We (read) the newspaper in class every day.
2. - He (come) to school by bus.
3. - I always (walk) to school.
4. - The children (play) in the park every afternoon.
5. - I (eat) lunch in the cafetería every day.
6. - Helen (work) very hard.
7. - He always (pepare) his homework carefully.
8. - He (speak) several foreign languages.
9. - John (go) there twice a week.
10. - I always (try) to do the same thing.
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Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación Superior
Colegio Universitario de Administración y Mercadeo CUAM
Docente: Prof. Jhoanna Olmedillo Asignatura: Inglés I
THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE: PAST EVENTS.

We use the simple past tense to talk about actions completed in the past.
For regular verbs, add –ed or d- to the base verb.

I worked
You worked
He worked
She worked
It worked
We worked
You worked
They worked

EXERCISES:
Supply the past tense form of the verbs in parentheses.
1. - We (work) in our garden all day yesterday.
2. - I (listen) to the radio until twelve o’clock last night.
3. - Helen and I (talk) on the telephone yesterday.
4. - He always (want) to learn English.
5. - They (live) in France for many years.
6. - We (arrive) late for class.
7. - We (Paint) their house white.
8. - I (wait) almost two hours for Helen.

An irregular verb is one that forms its past and past participle in some other
way than a regular verb. This “other way” may involve changing the
spelling of the verb or making no change at all.
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Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación Superior
Colegio Universitario de Administración y Mercadeo CUAM
Docente: Prof. Jhoanna Olmedillo Asignatura: Inglés I

The past tense forms of irregular verbs must be memorized.

Eat – Ate write – wrote speak - spoke
Drink – Drank put – put get - got
Read – read cost – cost tell - told
Sit – sat come – came see- saw
feel – felt begin – began sell – sold
know – knew

EXERCISES:
Supply the past tense of the verbs in parentheses.
1.- Mr. And Mrs. Price (come) to visit us last night.
2.- They (tell) us about their plans for their new home.
3.- The weather was warm so we (sit) on our front porch.
4.- I stayed home last night and (write) several letters.
5.- I (see) Helen on the Street yesterday.

PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
1. - Please, read carefully.
2. - Translate

Personnel administration is the management of the people in working

organizations. It is also frequently called personnel management,
industrial relations, employee relations, and manpower management. It
represents a major subsystem in the general management system, in which
it refers to the management or human resources, as distinguished from
financial or material resources.
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Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación Superior
Colegio Universitario de Administración y Mercadeo CUAM
Docente: Prof. Jhoanna Olmedillo Asignatura: Inglés I

The term may be used to refer to selected specific functions or

activities assigned to specialized personnel officers or departments. It also
used to identify the entire scope of management policies and programs in
the recruitment, allocation, leadership, and direction of manpower.

Personnel administration begins with the definition of the required

quantities of particular personal capabilities. Thereafter, people must be
found, recruited, selected, trained or retrained, negotiated with, counseled,
led, directed, committed, rewarded, transferred, promoted, and finally
released or retired. In many of these relations, managers deal with their
associates as individuals (the field takes its name in part from this type of
relationship).

In some working organizations, however, employees are represented

by unions, and managers bargain with these associations. Such collective-
bargaining relationships are generally described as labor relations.