Complete the dialogues with the correct Past Simple or Past Continuous
form of the verbs in brackets.
1
A: What’s wrong with you?
B: I’ve broken my foot. I (build1) a wall in my garden and I
(drop2) a brick on it
A: Really. How’s the brick?
2.
A: What (you/do3) at six o’clock yesterday evening?
B: I (watch4) TV. How about you?
A: I (write5) some letters. I (not/finish6) until after nine.
B: I (watch7) TV until ten o’clock and then I (go8) to bed.
3
A: This time last week I (drive9) to Cambridge for my university entrance interview.
B: Oh, yes. How (it/go10)?
A: Well, it was a bit frightening at first. I (enter11) a room and six people (sit12) at the table and an empty chair (stand13) and (face14) them. They (invite15) me to sit down and then they (ask16) me a lot of questions about my entrance exam paper.
B: Wow! Sounds awful.
A: It wasn’t too bad. Then they (ask17) me to wait outside and while I
(wait18) another student (come19) in and (sit20) down. I (feel21) really sorry for him because he (look22) terrified and all the time (twist23) his tie round his fingers. I (tell24) him it wasn’t the Spanish Inquisition and to relax which he seemed to do.
B: What (happen25) next?
A: Not much, really. They (call26) me back in and (say27) that I would have their decision in two weeks and now I’m just waiting.
4
A: I’m going to bed.
B: I (think28) you (watch29) the late film.
A: I (want30) to but I’m just too tired. I (have31) a difficult day at
work. I (put32) together my presentation to the directors from 9.00 until 5.00 and when I finally (finish33) I (find34) out that they (not/meet35) until next week and I could have done it later.
B: Never mind, I’ll make us some hot chocolate and we’ll have an early night.
Crosses the threshold of the white Queen of Winter, the patron of ice winds, the mistress of the sleeping Kingdom. Replacing the wet gloomy November, winter immediately sets its own rules. The nature in the winter of carefully covered with snow cover, pulling the chains of ice, the winter will be long to keep her dream. If the November still not resistant to snowfalls and snow cover are not so many, the coming of winter can be characterized by the loss of large quantities of snow. Already by the beginning of December the growth of cover noticeable by the volume of snow, which appear along the roads, increase of snow is about 30 cm. The smaller days pleases us a month, and all the more long become a cold night, when the temperature suddenly falls down.
With the loss of a large quantity of snow, the first short-term frosts. The nature in the winter wears a white coat, snow falls asleep once green lawns, trees are dressed in flowing white dresses, forest tracks are impassable, the ice falls of snow. Winter nature quiet and silent, the only sound of a rare song of winter birds, Yes dry snap of a twig in the winter forest. The weather in December is one of the winter and the severe, sometimes happen thaw, but the temperature is stable negative with occasional frosts and down to -20 degrees C. And despite frequent thaws and the volatility of negative temperatures, cold Arctic wind all the more will chill the air. Winter still show its austere character.