Complete the exchanges by putting the verbs in brackets into the past simple, past perfect or past perfect continuous. 1 A: Alice … (be) miserable yesterday because somebody … (take)
B: Yes, she …(leave) it outside the library while she was doing her shopping but when she went back to get it, somebody … (steal) it
2 A: How long … (the police/look) for the stolen money before they … (find) it?
B: They … (search) for over ten hours
3 A: … (you/do) out last night?
B: No, I … (be) too tired. I …(write) reports all day
Willard Wigan (born in 1957 in England) is the creator of the smallest works of art on Earth! His miniature sculptures include The Titanic on a pinhead, a cat on an eyelash and the six wives of Henry VIII in the eye of a needle. Some art a lot smaller than the full stop at the end of this sentence.
Wigan started making tiny things when he was a child. People made him feel small because he had learning difficulties, so he decided to show them how significant small could be! How does he create his unbelievable micro-sculptures? He slows his breathing, then patiently sculpts or paints between heartbeats, so that his hand stays perfectly still. He spends months carving his tiny creations from materials such as toothpicks, sugar crystals and grains of rice and then paints them with a tiny hair such as an eyelash. So how do visitors to Willard Wigan's exhibitions view his work? Through a microscope, of course!
After school I go home and have dinner. After a short rest, I start doing my homework and then I am free. I listen to music, meet my friends. Sometimes I play computer games or watch TV. Sometimes I do some work about the house: tidy my room, vacuum the carpet, wash the dishes, go shopping, take the rubbish out and so on. I go to bed at half past ten.