READING COMPREHENSION

1. Read the text carefully and complete it with the Past Simple of the verbs in brackets.

Last summer holidays Rui Silva and his family ____________

(travel) to Britain. They ____________ (stay) in London for three days.
On the first day they ____________ (enjoy) a full English breakfast at
the hotel. Then they toured (tour) London on a red double-decker bus. They
____________ (love) the ride. In the afternoon they ____________ (visit)
the Tower of London. They ____________ (wait) for a long time in a queue,
but when they ____________ (enter), a real Beefeater greeted (greet) them.
Rui and his sister Sara ____________ (pose) for a photo with him.
On the second day they ____________ (watch) the Changing of the
Guard at Buckingham Palace and they ____________ (pray) in Westminster
Abbey. They ____________ (cross) Westminster Bridge and
____________ (look) at the famous Big Ben. At lunch they ____________ (try) fish and chips and they
____________ ( like) it. In the afternoon the family ____________ (walk) down Oxford Street and Regent Street and
____________ (stop) in Trafalgar Square. They ____________ (rest) for a while in St. James’s Park and
____________ (listen) To an open-air concert.
On the third day they ____________ (travel) to Madame Tussaud’s Museum by underground, buy first they
____________ (study) the map of the Tube. They queued (queue) up for one hour. Once inside the Museum they
____________ (look) around absolutely amazed. All their favourite stars ____________ (be) there. And Mr. Silva
____________ (photograph) his whole family with the Royal Family!
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2. True or False? Correct the false ones.

1. The Silva family travelled to Britain. _________________________________________________

2. They stayed in a motel.
3. Rui toured through York.
4. The family visited some museums.
5. They didn’t like fish and chips.
6. Mr. Silva photographed the Royal Family.
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3. Answer the following questions.

3.1 Where did the Silva’s family go to for their holidays?

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3.2 When did they go?

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3.3 Did they like fish and chips?

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3.4 What did they visit on the third day?

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3.5 What did the Silva’s family see in there?

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4. Change the sentences into the present simple and in the past simple.

Present Past
1. He likes Sidney very much. 1.
2. There are five cookies on the table. 2.
3. I’m not in Sidney 3.

Past Present
4. They were at the cinema. 4.
5. We had colour pencils. 5.
6. You hated chocolate. 6.

5. Circle the correct form of the verb.

1. I go / went to the cinema last week. 4. She see / saw beautiful monuments last month.
2. Did you hear / heard the news two days ago? 5. Did they find / found the car yesterday?
3. He didn’t eat / didn’t ate a cake yesterday. 6. We didn’t get / didn’t got up early last Sunday.