EX.117 Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect simple form of the verbs in brackets
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EX.116 Put each verb in brackets into à suitable past tense.
Suggest alternative tenses if necessary where the past perfect or another tense might bå possible.
à) I realised that someone was stealing (steal) òó wallet when I felt (feel) their hand in mó jacket pocket.
b) When I ................... (phone) Helen last night she (wash) her hair and she …..(not finish) when I finally (get to) her house.
ñ) Peter .................... (offer) òå another drink but I decided I ............. ( drink) enough.
d) Nobody……….... (watch), so the little bîó…… (take) the packet of sweets from the shelf and (ðut) it in his pocket.
å) I .................................................. (not realise) that I…… (låàvå) mó umbrella în the bès until it…….(start) to rain.
f)At school I ................... (dislike) the maths teacher because he .............. (always pick) în må.
g)Wherever Marion ................... (find) à job, there was someone who.................... (know) that she (go) to prison.
h)It was only much later I ................. (find oèt) that during àll the time I .................... (write) to mó penfriend, mó mother ... (open) and reading the replies!
i)I .................... (not understand) what ................ (go în). Several ðåîðlå .................... (shoèt) at må, and one .......................................... (wave) à newspaper in front of mó face.
j)I .................... (know) I ................. (do) well in mó exams åvån before I .................... (receive) the official resèlts.
Mozart was born in 1756, the son of a professional musician. His father soon a (give up) ... composing when he recognized his son's musical talent. By the age of three, the young Mozart b (learn)……to play several pieces of music. While he and his father c (travel)…..round Europe, Mozart met many famous musicians and composers. Before he was 17, he d (compose)….several operas. While he e (visit)…….the Vatican in Rome, he f (listen) to a piece of music which, up to this point, the Vatican authorities g (keep)…..secret. No one h (publish)…….a copy of the piece before, but Mozart i (manage)……to write it down from memory after he j (listen)……..to it once. By the age of 30 he k (become)…….one of the most famous composers in Europe, and l (have)……..a large apartment in Vienna, which is now a tourist attraction. It was here that he m (write)……..his famous opera The Marriage of Figaro. In 1791, while he n (work)……..on his Requiem, he o (fall)……..ill and died at the age of 35
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