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The document provides a reading and grammar exercise about strange but true news stories from around the world. It includes 7 short news stories from Australia, England, Italy, and Sweden about unusual events like a shark being found in a swimming pool and a dog taking a train to the railway station. The exercises that follow ask students to match verbs to phrases, identify past tenses, and complete sentences using the past simple and past perfect verb tenses.

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Answers Exercise

The document provides a reading and grammar exercise about strange but true news stories from around the world. It includes 7 short news stories from Australia, England, Italy, and Sweden about unusual events like a shark being found in a swimming pool and a dog taking a train to the railway station. The exercises that follow ask students to match verbs to phrases, identify past tenses, and complete sentences using the past simple and past perfect verb tenses.

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12A Strange but true!

News round the world. Here is our selection of last week’s true stories.

1 Reading & Speaking

a Read the stories and look at the pictures. Complete the gaps with one of the
sentences below.

Australia

1 The shark had already attacked three people.

England

4 The dog had run away and had gone to the local railway station.

Italy

5 He had decided that he couldn't live with his mother and father another day.

Sweden

7 The woman had got confused at the check-in-desk.

b Match verbs 1-10 with phrases A-J

1 get into / out off H the swimming pool

2 get on / off F a train

3 free somebody E from prison

4 realize J that there was a shark in the pool

5 put the luggage A on the belt

6 go on C holiday

7 have B a swim

8 leave the dog I with the friends

9 be D in prison
10 belong to G a woman

Grammar Bank

a Look at these highlighted verbs from the Australia story. Answer the questions.

A Then they realized that there was a shark at the other end!

B A large wave had carried the shark into the pool during the night

1 Which action happened first, A or B? B

2 What are the two parts of the verb in sentences B?

(part 1) A large wave had carried the shark (part 2) into the pool during the night

Grammar Bank 12A p. 149

a Match the sentences halves.

1 When our friends arrived – G we hadn’t finished cooking the dinner

2 I took the jacket back because – D I had bought the wrong size
3 Jill didn’t come with us because – A she’d made other plans

4 I turne don the TV news – F to see what had happened

5 Johnny was nervous because – E it was the first time he had flown

6 When I got to the supermarket checkout – B I realized that I’d left my wallet at home

b Complete the sentences. Put he verbs in the past simple and past perfect

1 didn't recognize, had changed (not recognize, change)

2 phoned, had left (phone, leave)

3 turned on, had already finished (turn on, already finish)

4 didn't lend, hadn't watched (not lend, not watch)

5 had closed, arrived (close, arrive)


6 got, had broken (get, break)

7 had stopped, left (stop, leave)

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