2. How I Spent My Winter Holidays The teacher is telling us about her winter holidays using the Past Simple, the Past Progressive and the Present Perfect Tenses

3. Past Simple V-ed, V2 Past Progressive was/were + V-ing Present Perfect have/has + V3

4. My winter holidays … (to begin) on 30 th December

5. Before the holidays schoolchildren … (to have) New Year parties, they … (to sing and dance)

6. When I … (to go) home from school, I … (to see) a wonderful New Year Tree in Central Square.

7. I … (to celebrate) the New Year holiday at home

8. I … (to cook) a couple of tasty dishes for the holiday dinner

9. On 2 nd January the weather … (to be) very fine and I … (to go) for a walk

10. The sun … (to shine) brightly and I … (to have) a nice time

11. While I … (to walk), some fellows … (to fish) on the lake

12. While I … (to return) home, some pretty children … (to toboggan) on a hill

13. And when I … (to come) home, my cat, Markiz by name, … (to lie) on the armchair

14. On 6 th January I … (to visit) my relatives and … (to play) with them and … (to take) their photos for the whole day

15. On Christmas Eve I … (to send) greetings to my friends VKontakte and … (to get) the same from them for almost four hours

16. On 8 th January I … (to receive) many Happy Birthday wishes from my friends

17. My friend Natasha … (to prepare) a nice birthday present for me

18. While she … (to make) the present, her little son Daniel … (to work and to play) in the yard

19. My winter holidays … (to be) very nice and I … (to like) them very much

20. Created by: Valentina Vasilyevna Sergoushina an English teacher MBEE Monastyrshchinskaya Secondary Comprehensive School Smolenskaya Oblast School Year 2011-2012