Lyons Tower! Let's keep West Street clean and beautiful. Amy Chen, President, West Street Association EXERCISE 5 SIMPLE PAST, SIMPLE PRESENT, BE GOING TO FUTURE GRI AMAR NOTES 1-2 Complete the conversations with the verbs in parentheses. Use the simple past, the simple present, or be going to for the future. Conversation 1 INEZ Did you watch the weather report last night? 1. (watch) PAUL: Yes. It sunny and warm today and tomorrow. 2. (be) INEZ: Good. There a town meeting outdoors in East Park 3. (be) about the new stadium. tomorrow evening. People 4. (talk) PAUL: I to go to the meeting, but I can't. I 5. (want) to drive my parents to the airport. 6. (promise) Be going to for the Future 265 Conversation 2 DAN: The mayor to close Maple Street to cars. He 1. (plan) it a place for people to walk. 2. (make) about it? ANNA: How -you 3. (know) DAN: The mayor it last night on his weekly radio show. 4. (announce) ANNA: 1 it's a great idea. 5. (think) DAN: Well, some storeowners aren't happy. They say they 6. (lose) business. ANNA: What else last night? 7. (say) DAN: In the next five years, he this city into a center for the arts. 8. (turn) ANNA: How he that? 9. (do) DAN: He cheap housing for artists. He 10. (offer a new concert hall, and he 11. (build) 12. (put) artwork in the park. the mayor COIIC TO AND EXERCISE 8 EDITING VILLAGE GREEN APARTMENTS Dear Residents: ESMAR NOTES 1-4 Correct the newsletter article. There are five mistakes. The first mistake is already corrected. Find and correct four more. Last week, the mayor talked about building a sports stadium in to our neighborhood. I think it's a terrible idea. It's going cost taxpayers millions of dollars. It going to mean traffic jams. Parking is being difficult, and it's going to bringing noise to the area. Next Monday at 7:00p.m., the mayor is goes to answer questions the public library. Please come and speak out against the new stadiun Sincerely, Dale Ortiz, President, Residents' Association Go to MyEnglishLab for more focused practice