4. When we unpacked our bags, we realised that we ... to take our travel guide. a. forgot b. were forgetting c.

had forgotten

Choose the correct answer.

a. Connor changed his holiday plans because his girlfriend didnt like / hadnt liked skiing. b. Mum was locked out of the house because Dad took / had taken her keys. c. Ann went back to her old neighbourhood and found that nothing changed / had changed. d. The ight attendant offered me a meal and I accepted / had accepted.

4 Complete the sentences with the time expressions below.

in 1995 while when at 8.00 pm yesterday morning a. The baby was crying ........................... his mother went into his room. b. ........................... we were playing football, our father was cleaning the house. c. My mums car is very old. She bought it ........................... . d. It started to rain ........................... , so we went inside and made dinner. e. .......................... , my best friend went to France on holiday.

2 Choose the correct answer.

a. Where did you buy / were you buying your tent? b. My brother bought / was buying me a gift while he shopped / was shopping. c. Why didnt you sleep / werent you sleeping at 3.00 am? d. While the children played / were playing, their parents talked / were talking. e. As I walked / was walking to the bus stop, the bus drove / was driving past me.

5 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple or
Past Continuous
a. While he ................. (shave) , he .............. (cut) himself. b. She .................. (break) her nail while she ................ (clean) the house. c. While Adam ............... (look) for his keys, he ............... (nd) his glasses. d. Rosa ................ (meet) her boyfriend while she ................. (travel) in India.

3 Choose the correct answer.

1. He ... in the Alps when he suddenly felt ill. a. climb before. a. didnt y a. Did you see b. hadnt own c. wasnt ying c. Had you seen? 3. ... many interesting sites on your journey? b. Were you seeing b. was climbing c. had climbed 2. The little girl next to me on the plane was nervous because she ...

6 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Perfect
Simple.
a. By the time she reached the airport, she ........................... (miss) the plane. b. They ........................... (learn) the play by heart before they performed it on the stage. c. .................. he .................. (go) to sleep by 11 oclock? d. The lm .................. already .................. (start) before he arrived at the

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cinema. e. How much homework .................. he .................. (nish) when you arrived?

2.

Ingrid had bought souvenirs before we arrived.

3. Toni was working at the bank when he met Eva. 4. Mr Duncan had smoked 20 cigarettes a day before he stopped smoking. 5. My parents went sightseeing in Paris in the summer. 6. I didnt wear a jacket because it was warm outside !

7 Choose the correct answer.

a. They studied / had studied Portuguese for a year before they travelled / had travelled to Brazil. b. My parents decided / had decided to visit India after they saw / had seen a documentary about the Taj Mahal. c. By the time they reached / had reached the station, their train left / had left. Naturally they were upset. d. Nick was hungry when the plane landed / had landed at the airport because he didnt eat / hadnt eaten on the ight.

10 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple,
Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple. MARCO POLO
Niccolo and Matteo Polo were traders from Venice who (1) ........................ (go) to China in the 1200s. While Niccolo and Matteo (2) .......................... (travel) in China, Niccolos son, Marco, was born. After Niccolos return to Venice, he learned that his wife (3) ........................... (die) and that Marcos aunt and uncle (4) ........................... (raise) baby Marco. When Marco was 17, his father (5) ........................... (take) him to China where Marco (6) ........................... (work) for Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, for 17 years. In 1298, in a conict between Venice and Genoa, Marco was captured and put in jail. While Marco (7) ........................... (wait) in jail for the war to end, he (8) ........................... (tell) another prisoner about all that he (9) ........................... (see) in China. The prisoner wrote it down and Marco (10) ........................... (become) famous.

8 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple,
Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
a. They ........................... (not nish) packing their suitcase when their taxi ........................... (arrive). b. They .................... (be) friends for ve years before they ................... (get) married. c. Clara .................... (try) to study while her brother .................. (play) his drums. d. Mr Brown ............ (cross) the street when a car ...................... (hit) him. e. They ........................... (read) the whole travel guide before they .......................... (go) on their trip. f. Why ............... you ................ (cry) when I .................. (see) you yesterday?

9 Write questions for the answers below. Pay attention to the words in bold.
1. Victor was visiting a museum while we were eating.!
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11 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple,
Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
Some people wont drive without their GPS navigational systems, but some people nd this device is ruining their lives. Last month a lorry driver from Slovakia (1) ............. (get) his truck stuck while he (2) ........................... (drive) on a small country road in Britain. The driver, who (3) ........................... (arrive) in Britain only a few hours before, (4) ..................... (not speak) English and (5) ........................... (become) very upset. This was not surprising because he (6) .................... (knock) down an electricity pole just minutes before. Similarly, a large lorry (7) ........................... (break) Dorothea Blakes front gate while it (8) ........................... (travel) through her small British village, Ripon. Both these accidents (9) ........................... (happen) because the lorry drivers (10) ........................... (not watch) where they were going. They (11) ........................... (use) their GPS navigational systems instead.

13 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple,
Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
Last weekend, Cathy ................ to York. When she .................... and the sky ..................... the car and ..................... she ........................ she .......................
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(hire) a car and ......................

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(drive)
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(arrive) the wind ......................

(blow)

(be) cloudy. She ....................

(get out) of

(take) a walk through the city center. Then

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(decide) to have lunch at a nearby restaurant that (see) earlier. By the time she ......................
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(leave) the restaurant, it ....................... she .......................... ...........................

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dark. As
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(walk) to her car it ..........................

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(begin) to

rain. However, Cathy .........................

(not mind) because she

(have) a wonderful day.

14 Complete the text with the correct forms of the verbs

Last week I ............... 1(be) alone at home. I ............... I ...............
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(do) my English
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homework so I was really concentrating. Everything was very quiet. (write) an essay about ghosts when suddenly I ...............
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12 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple,
Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
When Simon .................... They ..................... ......................
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(hear) a loud noise from the kitchen. I ............... window was open! I ...............
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(go) to check the

(feel) scared. We ............... 7(live) on the

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ground oor so anybody could get in through the window. I had just got up to investigate when my mobile ............... (start) ringing. It was my
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(arrive) at the Odeon cinema in Leicester

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Square, London, dozens of people ..................... Simon, however .......................

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(queue) outside.

parents. They were phoning me to say that they .............. everything because a storm ..............
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(forget) to

(wait) to see The Dark Knight. (buy) the ticket in advance, so he

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close the windows before leaving for the cinema and wanted me to close (come)!

(walk) straight to the front of the queue and .................... (feel) relieved that he didnt have
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(enter) the cinema. He .....................

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to queue. He ....................... (reach) his seat just as the lights ............. (go down) for the start of the lm.

15 Complete the text with the correct form of the bold verbs. Use the Past
Simple or Past Continuous
I rst ............... sixteen. My friends and I ....................
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(meet) my boyfriend James two years ago when I was (wait) in a queue to see my favourite band,
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Coldplay. He ............... We ............... room to us.

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(stand) behind me in the queue. He ...............

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(ask) me for the time but after that we ...............

(not say) much.

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Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple or Past

(go) into the concert and he was on the other side of the

Perfect Simple.
1. My father ......... in Madrid when he was young (To live)

During the concert, every time I ............... I ...............

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(look) in his direction,

2. David's car was very new; he just ............ it (To buy) 3. Ann passed her exam because she .......... a lot (To study) 4. The oil tanker .......... in the middle of a terrible hurricane (To sink) 5. Last summer my parents went to London; they never .......... there before (To be) 6. When the police arrived the terrorist just .......... one hostage (To kill)

(notice) that he ...............

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(watch) me. At the end of the

concert, he ................ He ............... He ............... story.

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(come) up to me and asked for my phone number.

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(seem) like a nice boy so I ...............

(give) it to him.

(ring) me the next day and, well, you know the rest of the

16 Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple, Past
Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
When Nick Flynn ..................... who .............
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(acababa de suceder) 7. Mark didn't ............ me to his birthday party (To invite) 8. Yesterday morning my kids .......... to the zoo (To go) 9. Ten years ago I ........... 100.000 euros for my house (To pay) 10. When I saw your father I didn't recognize him. He ........... a lot (To change) 11. The rst time I ......... my wife was in Paris during the Roland Garros Tournament (To meet) 12. Last night I .......... to bed very late because I was reading a book (To go) 13. When my mother phoned me yesterday night I just .......... to bed (To go) (justo poco antes de la llamada) 14. I didn't see my brother last summer. He ............ in France (To be)

(go) to the Fitzwilliam Museum in

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Cambridge in 2006, the results ..................... (have) a very unfortunate accident. As he ......................
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(be) disastrous. Mr Flynn,

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(visit) the museum several times before, ..................

(walk) past some ancient and very valuable Chinese

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vases, he ....................... staff who ..................... he .....................

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(trip) and ....................

(fall). The museum

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(rush) to help him .....................

(discover) that

(break) three vases into hundreds of small pieces.

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After the incident, the director of the museum ..................... Flynn a letter. He made it clear that he ..................... responsible for the accident. However, when other people ..................... such valuable vases.
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(send) Mr

(not want) him to

15. I arrived very late at the party and my friends just ........... (To leave) (acababan de marcharse) 16. Lord Nelson ............. alone in his castle (To die) 17. Last September the village was very quiet: the holiday makers already ............ (To leave) (pocos das antes)

visit the museum again. The director obviously thought that Flynn was (hear) about the incident, (not take) better care of

many wondered why the museum ...............

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18. Last time I went to Beijing they .............. the Olympic Village (To open) (poco tiempo antes) 19. When the bomb exploded the police already ............. the building (To evacuate) 20. I ............. for an American rm for 10 years (To work) (ya no trabajo) 21. We .............. our trip to Italy a lot (To enjoy) 22. When the helicopter nally arrived the oil tanker ............ (To sink) 23. When the vaccine was nally developed that strange illness already ............. thousands of people (To kill) 24. The bomb .............. in front of the police station (To explode) 25. The public .............. the referee during the match (To insult)

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a. had missed nished b. had learnt c. had ... gone d. had ... started e. had ...

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a. had studied, travelled d. landed, hadnt eaten b. decided, had seen c. reached, had left

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a. hadnt nished, arrived d. was crossing, hit b. had been, got f. c. was trying, was playing were ... crying, saw e. had read, went

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1. What was Victor doing while you / we were eating? 2. Who had bought souvenirs before you / we arrived? 3. Where was Toni working when he met Eva? 4. How many cigarettes had Mr Duncan smoked per day before he stopped smoking? 5. When did your parents go sightseeing in Paris? 6. Why didnt you wear a jacket?

KEY 1
a. didnt like b. had taken c. had changed d. accepted

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1. went
2. were travelling 8. told 3. had died 4. had raised 10. became 5. took 6. raised 7. was waiting 9. had seen

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a. did you buy b. bought / was shopping c. werent you sleeping d. were playing / were talking e. was walking / drove

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1. got 2. was driving 7. broke 3. had arrived 4. didnt speak 9. happened 5. became 6. had knocked down 8. was travelling 10. hadnt been/ werent watching 11. had been/were using

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1a 2b 3a 4c

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a. when b. while c. in 1995 d. at 8 p.m. e. yesterday morning

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1. arrived
6. entered 2. were queueing 7. Felt 3. were waiting 4. had bought 5. walked 8. reached 9. were going down

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a. was shaving, cut b. broke, was cleaning c. was looking, found d. met, was travelling

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1. hired 8. decided 13. Began 2. drove 3. Arrived 4. was blowing 15. Had had 5. was 6. got out 7. took 9. had seen 10. left 11. had already grown 12. Was walking 14. Did not mind

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1. Was 7. Live

2. Was doing 8. Started

3. Was writing 9. had forgotten

4. Heard

5. Went

6. Felt!

25. The public insulted the referee during the match

10. Was coming

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1. met 7. looked 13. rang 2. were waiting 8. noticed 3. was standing 9. was watching 4. asked 10. came 5. didnt say 11. seemed 6. went 12. gave

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1. went 8. rushed 2. were 3. had visited 4. had 5. was walking 11. sent 6. tripped 7. fell 13. heard 9. discovered 10. had broken 12. didnt want 14. had not taken

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1. My father lived in Madrid when he was young 2. David's car was very new; he had just bought it 3. Ann passed her exam because she had studied a lot 4. The oil tanker sank in the middle of a terrible hurricane 5. Last summer my parents went to London; they had never been there before 6. When the police arrived the terrorist had just killed one hostage 7. Mark didn't invite me to his birthday party 8. Yesterday morning my kids went to the zoo 9. Ten years ago I paid 100.000 euros for my house 10. When I saw your father I didn't recognize him. He had changed a lot 11. The rst time I met my wife was in Paris during the Roland Garros Tournament 12. Last night I went to bed very late because I was reading a book 13. When my mother phoned me yesterday night I had just gone to bed 14. I didn't see my brother last summer. He was in France 15. I arrived very late at the party and my friends had just left 16. Lord Nelson died alone in his castle 17. Last September the village was very quiet: the holiday makers had already left 18. Last time I went to Beijing they had opened the Olympic Village 19. When the bomb exploded the police had already evacuated the building 20. I worked for an American rm for 10 years 21. We enjoyed our trip to Italy a lot 22. When the helicopter nally arrived the oil tanker had sunk 23. When the vaccine was nally developed that strange illness had already killed ... 24. The bomb exploded in front of the police station
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