SSP Rio De Janeiro, Simple Past vs. Present Perfect Review

 By Nate Feldman

Complete the sentences using the simple past or present perfect form of the verbs in parentheses.  

For example, I (be) have been in your country many times.  In fact, I (be) was just there last summer.

I (begin) __________________my job at ELS in September 2012, 11 years ago.  When I (come) ___________________here, it (be) ____________________quite different than it is now.  First of all, ELS (be) ______________________at a different building, on Hawk Hill.  We also (have) ___________________a lot more students and teachers than now.  Some sessions, we (have) ___________________around 200-300 students.  Sometimes, the bulding (not have) ______________________enough classrooms, so teachers (have to) ____________________teach in other buildings.

Times (change) ______________________, however.  We (move) ___________________________to a new building in University City.  We (move) _________________________in July of this year.  The student population (change) ___________________________as well.  We have students from different countries than before.  In the past, we (had) _____________________a lot of students from Saudi Arabia because of a scholarship program, but that program (stop) ____________________.