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Complete with the Past Simple or Past Continuous.

Last Friday ......................... (be) Friday 13th. Do you believe in bad luck?
I .............................................. (not believe) before last Friday but now I do.
I .............................. (finish) work as usual and .......................... (go) home after work.
I ....................................... (listen) to the news and .............................. (phone) my
girlfriend Susan. She ................................ (want) to go to the cinema. It ........................
(be) 6.00 in the evening. I ................................... (decide) to have a shower. When
I ..............................(have) a shower, there ....................... (be) a power cut. Later,
I ........................................... (drive) to Susan’s house when I ............................ (see) a
black cat crossing the road in front of my car. I ................................. (not pay) any
attention and ................................ (go on) driving. When I ............................... (arrive)
my girlfriend and I .................................. (drink) a cup of coffee and ..............................
(have) a chat. We .................................. (leave) for the cinema. When
we ............................ (get) there, the film ................................... (start).
We .............................. (sit) down very quickly. We ............................... (enjoy) the film
when suddenly the lights.................................... (go) off. Another power cut! ‘What’s
next?’, I ........................... (think). People ................................... (be) very angry.
Everybody ............................................ (shout). The lights ............................................
(come) back after half an hour. There .......................................... (not be) many people
at the cinema. Some people .................................... (be) tired of waiting and
they ..................................... (leave) but Susan and I ................................ (stay).
We ........................... (see) the last part of the film but we ........................................ (not
like) it very much. It ....................... (have) an open ending. When
we .................................. (go) out of the cinema, we ................................... (meet) our
friend Paul and his girlfriend Anna. We .......................... (be) all very hungry
and .................................. (have) dinner together. We ............................... (eat) some
spaghetti. While we ...................................... (wait) for the food I told my friend about
the black cat and the two power cuts. He ............................... (laugh)
and ............................. (tell) me he ...................................... (not believe) in bad luck.
But after half an hour he ...................................... (start) to think about it.
there ................................... (be) lots of people at the restaurant and the
waiter ............................... (forget) our order. The food .................. (be) good, but
it .......................... (be) cold. But that’s not the end of the story. When
we .................................. (finish) dinner, I ..................................... (drive) Susan home
and then I ........................ (go) to my house. But when I ............................. (arrive),
I ................................... (not can) open the door, because I ..........................................
(not have) my keys! So I ................................... (climb) into a window. When
I ............................................ (go) through the window, one of my
neighbours ............................... (see) me and she ................................ (think)
I ............... (be) a burglar, so she ...................................... (phone) the police.
I .................................................... (sleep) when the police ....................................
(come).
I ............................... (find) my keys to the front door the next morning.
They ....................... (be) in the pocket of another jacket. What about you? Do you
believe in bad luck?

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