• 1. Answer based on the text
• 2. Find examples in the text of every structure listed below
• 3. Translate the following sentences from the text
• 4. Write your own "Looking back, looking forward" essay

1. Answer based on the text

🔹 Responde basándote en el texto.

1. How long has the narrator been living in the city?
2. Why did he move there?
3. What would have happened if he hadn't received the job offer?
4. Who helped him adjust to the city?
5. What had Clara also experienced when she first moved?
6. What was the best advice anyone gave him?
7. How was the bigger apartment found?
8. What had he imagined his life would be like when he was young?
9. What big step is he going to take next year?
10. What is his philosophy about life?

2. Find examples in the text of every structure listed below

🔹 Encuentra en el texto ejemplos de cada estructura listada.

1. Present simple
2. Present progressive
3. Past simple
4. Past progressive (or past description)
5. Used to
6. Present perfect
7. Present perfect continuous
8. Past perfect
9. Future with going to
10. First conditional
11. Second conditional
12. Third conditional
13. Mixed conditional
14. Wish
15. Passive voice
16. Relative clause (who)
17. Relative clause (which)
18. Reported speech
19. Modal + have + past participle (2 examples)
20. Phrasal verb (2 examples)
21. Gerund after preposition
22. Linking word (3 examples)
23. Question tag or had better/would rather (2 examples)
24. Be used to / get used to

3. Translate the following sentences from the text

🔹 Traduce las siguientes oraciones del texto.

1. I have been living in this city for almost ten years now.
2. If I hadn't received that offer, I would have stayed in my hometown.
3. I wasn't used to living alone, and I couldn't get used to the noise.
4. She told me that she had also moved to the city on her own.
5. Although I had never been interested in hiking before, I quickly fell in love with it.
6. I wish I could say I did something equally nice for her.
7. She must have been very patient with me.
8. Despite the difficult beginning, this city has become my home.
9. I'd rather try and fail than never try at all.
10. You'd better believe me.

4. Write your own "Looking back, looking forward" essay

🔹 Escribe tu propia redacción "Mirando atrás, mirando adelante".

Write about your life using as many structures from all five books as possible. Talk about your past, your present, and your future. Include at least:

🔹 Escribe sobre tu vida usando tantas estructuras de los cinco libros como sea posible. Habla sobre tu pasado, tu presente y tu futuro. Incluye al menos:

• 3 different past tenses
• 2 different future forms
• 1 conditional sentence
• 1 wish sentence
• 1 passive sentence
• 2 relative clauses
• 3 linking words
• 2 phrasal verbs