1.Read Mark’s story.

Then put the verbs in brackets in

the right tense.

It was eleven o'clock and I ________(lie) in bed reading. I

_________(know) it ________(be) eleven because I
__________(just set) my alarm clock to wake me up in the
morning. It was then that I __________(hear) a bang on
my window. I _______( feel) really afraid. I _________
(just listen) to the news on TV and ___________( hear) a
story about a murder in the area where I ________(live).
Perhaps the murderer _________(be) in the street
outside my window. The really bad thing _______(be) I was
alone in the house. My mother and father _____(be) away
and my brother _______( go out) with some friends. Then 2.Choose the correct form.
I _______(hear) another bang on my window and then
another. It was the murderer and he ________(want) to 1.We waited in the lift until the
get into my room. I quickly _________(get out) of bed and door opened, then we walked/had
______(run) to the door. 'I ________(must) phone the walked out into the corridor.
police,' I ________(think). I___________(open) the door 2.When I looked in my bag, my
of my bedroom when I ________(hear) someone passport wasn't there. Someone
_______(call out) my name from the street. 'How ______ stole/ had stolen it.
the murderer________(know) my name?' I________(ask) 3.The classroom was empty when
myself. Then I_________(hear) my name again. It was my I arrived there. The lesson
brother's voice. I _______(run back) to the window, finished/had finished.
________(open) the curtain and_________(look out). 4.When the alarm clock went off,
It_______(be) my brother_______(stand) in the street I got out of bed and had/had
below. He ________(forget) his key and _________ had a shower.
(throw) stones at my window to wake me up. 5.I had breakfast when I
had/had had a shower.
6.When Mike got home, someone
left /had left a message for him.
3.Read the text again. Are these sentences RIGHT or
7.Were you late? Had the
WRONG?
concert started/ Did the
concert start when you got
1. At eleven o’clock the light was off in Mark’s bedroom.
there?
2. Mark was watching the news on TV in his bedroom
8.No, I wasn't late. It started
3. There was no one with Mark in his house
/had started five minutes later.
4. Mark phoned the police
9.I didn't finish /hadn't
5. Mark asked the murderer how he knew his name
finished the exam when the bell
rang.
10.We went to the cinema last
night but when we arrived / had
arrived the film started /had
started