Traffic Jams Make Angelenos Feel at Home

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 735.

Young boy, 5, Discovered 300 km from Home

The Unlucky Burglar

II. Change the verbs to the Past Simple or the Past Continuous. Then retell the stories.

One evening Alf __________ (watch) the television and __________ (eat) his supper when the door suddenly _____ (open) and a burglar __________ (come) in. He ____ (wear) a mask and _______ (carry) a sack. Before doing anything else he _____ (tie) Alf to the chair. Then he _______ (go) upstairs to look for money. Although he ________ (not find) any money he _______ (find) a lot of jewelry, which he ______ (put) into his sack. In his rush to get downstairs he ______ (not see) the dog which ________ (lie) at the bottom of the stairs and he ______ (fall) over it, losing his glasses. While the burglar ______ (look) for them, Alf ______ (try) to free himself. Finally Alf _______ (manage) to escape and he ________ (phone) the police. As soon as the burglar ______ (find) his glasses he ______ (run) out of the house. However, unfortunately for him, the police ______ (wait) for him at the end of the garden.

Police who ______ (look) for a lost five-year-old boy eventually ______ (find) him the next day. After getting separated from his family in a market, from Pekanbaru in Malaysia, _________ (go) to a station, got onto a train, and was discovered in Padang, 300 kilometers away. “He _________ (be) very calm,” said the boy's mother. “It was us, his family, who __________ (worry) all night.”

A recent study said that Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the United States. Last year Angelenos __________ (spend) an average of 136 hours a year stuck in traffic. Only last week a man was arrested whole he _______ (brush) his teeth in the car, and drivers are regularly seen applying make-up and shaving. Police _________ (say) that yesterday they ________ (stop) a man who __________ (drive) while playing on his laptop computer.