THE WEATHER FORECAST

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 588.

AT A BARBER'S SHOP

VERB FORMS

A man ___(to enter) a barber's shop with a boy of five or six years holding his hand. He ___(to be) in a great hurry and he ___(to ask) the barber to cut his hair first and later to cut the boy's hair. "He can wait. I want you to cut my hair first," he ___(to say). The barber ___(to do) as he ___(to be) told and when he ___(to finish) the man ___(to get) out of the chair and the boy ___(to take) his place. The man ___(to excuse) himself and ___(to say) that he ___(to be) in a great hurry and that he would be back in a few minutes and would pay for them both. Then he ___(to leave) and the barber ___(to begin) to cut the boy's hair. When he ___(to finish) he ___(to pick) the boy up and ___(to place) him in a chair to wait. He ___(to give) him a magazine to look at. Half an hour ___(to pass). An hour ___(to pass). At last the barber ___(to tell) the child, "Don't worry, your father ___(to be) back soon."
"My father?" ___(to say) the boy, "He ___(not to be) my father. I ___(to play) in the street and that man ___(to come) up to me and ___(to say) 'Come on with me, little boy. Let's go into this barber's shop together and have our hair cut."

(after Jerome K. Jerome)

The weather ___(to be) a thing that I can never understand. I ___(to remember) one summer day. We ___(to read) the weather forecast in the newspaper: "Heavy showers with thunderstorms." We ___(to decide) to stay at home. We ___(to look) at the people who ___(to pass) our house and ___(to say), "They ___(to come) home quite wet." At twelve o'clock it ___(to become) very hot. One of us ___(to say), "I'd like to know when those heavy showers and thunderstorms ___(to begin)?" "Ah! They ___(to come) in the afternoon, you'll see," we ___(to say) to each other. But there ___(to be) no rain on that day. The next morning we ___(to read), "The weather ___(to be) warm and fine, no rain." We ___(to go) to the country. We ___(to want) to have a good rest. But it ___(to begin) to rain hard, and it ___(to rain) the whole day. We ___(to come) home quite wet, with colds and rheumatism all over us.