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    1) A man was walking down a high street in northern England wearing a dark suit and carrying a suitcase. He had been living away from home for 20 years, having been in prison. 2) While paying for a coffee, he found an old ticket for a pair of shoes he had taken to be repaired the day before a bank robbery 20 years ago. 3) To his surprise, the shoe repair shop was still there, and the shoe repairer, who looked about 100 years old, remembered his shoes were dark brown Italian shoes in size 42 and would be ready the next afternoon.

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    1) A man was walking down a high street in northern England wearing a dark suit and carrying a suitcase. He had been living away from home for 20 years, having been in prison. 2) While paying for a coffee, he found an old ticket for a pair of shoes he had taken to be repaired the day before a bank robbery 20 years ago. 3) To his surprise, the shoe repair shop was still there, and the shoe repairer, who looked about 100 years old, remembered his shoes were dark brown Italian shoes in size 42 and would be ready the next afternoon.

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    1) A man was walking down a high street in northern England wearing a dark suit and carrying a suitcase. He had been living away from home for 20 years, having been in prison. 2) While paying for a coffee, he found an old ticket for a pair of shoes he had taken to be repaired the day before a bank robbery 20 years ago. 3) To his surprise, the shoe repair shop was still there, and the shoe repairer, who looked about 100 years old, remembered his shoes were dark brown Italian shoes in size 42 and would be ready the next afternoon.

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    Test on Past Tenses

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    Name: _______________________________________________ Class__________

    Some things never change


    Complete the story with the right verb tense of the verb in brackets. Use the past tenses. Past
    Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple.

    It was three o’ clock. A man (1) ………………………………………………. (walk)


    down a high street in the north of England. He (2) ……………………….
    …………………….. (wear) a dark suit and carrying a suitcase. His name was Patrick and he
    (3) ……………………….…………………….. (live) away from home for the last twenty
    years. In fact, he (4) ……………………….…………………….. (be) in prison.
    Patrick was feeling totally depressed because everything in his home town (5)
    ……………………….…………………….. (change). The park where he used to play was
    now a car park. The house where he was born (6) ……………………….
    …………………….. (disappear) and in its place, ironically, there was a bank. Patrick (7)
    ……………………….…………………….. (decide) to have a cup of coffee in the old snack
    bar where he used to go with his friends after school but it (8) ……………………….
    …………………….. (become) a burger bar.
    While he (9) ……………………….…………………….. (pay) for the coffee, he (10)
    ……………………….…………………….. (find) an old ticket in his wallet. It (11)
    ……………………….…………………….. (be) for a pair of shoes he (12)
    ……………………….…………………….. (take) to be repaired the day before the bank
    robbery 20 years ago. The shoe repairer was an old man then so Patrick (13)
    ……………………….…………………….. (be) sure that he must be dead. But when he
    (14) ……………………….…………………….. (turn) the corner of the street he couldn’t
    believe his eyes. The shop was still there! And it was the same shoe repairer! He (15)
    ……………………….…………………….. (look) about a hundred years old. Patrick was so
    happy!
    Patrick told him that he (16) ……………………….…………………….. (live) in
    Australia for the past twenty years and that he (17) ……………………….
    …………………….. (forget) to pick up some shoes before he left England. The shoe
    repairer (18) ……………………….……………………..(disappear) into the back of the
    shop. After ten minutes he (19) ……………………….…………………….. (come) back.
    (20) ……………………….…………………….. (be) they dark brown, Italian shoes,
    size 42? He asked slowly.
    “Yes!” said Patrick excitedly.
    “They’ll be ready tomorrow afternoon”, said the shoe repairer.

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