P4 tenses / text 3

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P4 tenses / text 3

(1) The CURRENT IMAGE of the terrifying flesh-eating zombie...

(1) The current image of the TERRIFYING flesh-eating zombie...

(1) NOWADAYS many people like to frighten themselves ...

(1) Nowadays many people like to FRIGHTEN THEMSELVES with the idea ...

(1) ... how to destroy zombies by DECAPITATION or shooting them ...

(2) HOWEVER zombies are not new.

(2) ... has been LONG ASSOCIATED WITH the Vodou religion ...

(2) ... from which it is DESCENDED ...

(2) Vodou has STRONG TIES TO THE SUPERNATURAL and magic ...

(2) ... magic PRACTISED by witch doctors ...

(3) ... zombies are not EVIL CREATURES but victims ...

(3) ... then REANIMATED and controlled by bokors ...

(3) ... for some SPECIFIC PURPOSE ...

(3) The bokors were WIDELY feared and respected.

(3) ... those who DEFIED THE AUTHORITIES were ...

(4) For a long time most people ASSUMED that zombies ...

(4) ... were noghing more than MYTHICAL FIGURES, ...

(4) ... Clairvius Narcisse CLAIMED that he had been turned into a zombie ...

(4) ... BY MEANS OF drugs ...

(4) Wade Davis ... OBTAINED something called 'zombie powder' ...

(4) the MAIN ACTIVE INGREDIENT was a neurotoxin ...

(5) This kept the 'zombies' in a SUBMISSIVE STATE ...

(6) ... the amounts ... in the powder samples he found were INCONSISTENT ...

(6) ... there have been NO PUBLICISED CASES in the last few decades ...

(6) ... Davis' theory REMAINS CONTROVERSIAL.

Tenses

Where is John? - Oh, he .... (leave) two seconds ago.

James .... (buy) a beautiful ship last winter.

John isn't lazy. He .... (work) very hard all the time.

My brothers .... (work) at this office for 20 years now.

Before James went home he .... (buy) his wife some flowers.

As we .... (watch) the nine o'clock news last night, our TV broke down.

The Normans .... (build) this castle in 1078.

We .... (wash) the windows. They are clean now.

Look! The leaves .... (fall down) right now.

They .... (not finish) their meal yet.