General English Level 4 Version 2.1 © 2004 acl Pty Ltd GELEV4 Unit 04 Topic 04.doc SPEAKING Retell the story Now it’s your turn to tell the story. 1. Try to remember the story you read. 2. With a partner, try to retell the story. Don’t look at your answers for the last activity. • Begin like this: “There was a beautiful country in Europe called …” VOCABULARY Matching 1. Look at the words in the left column. 2. Look at the definitions in the right column. 3. Match the word on the left with best definition. 1. to mend a. to fall in drops 2. to slide b. to make, to construct 3. to disappear c. to move upward by using your hands and feet 4. to build d. to vanish from sight 5. to climb e. to repair 6. to drip f. to move smoothly over something 4. Now convert all of the verbs into the past simple and past perfect forms. Write them below. The first one is done for you. Base form past simple past perfect 1. mend mended had mended 5. Use each of these verbs in the (past simple or past perfect) in a sentence. 143