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    20. 3 PAST TIME 1 3 Practice Exercise 1A Underine the correct wordss. 1. A; Did you get/gor the email| sent you yesterday? B: Yes, thanks, | did/got. 2 How you felt/did you fee! when they tofd/aid tell you about moving offices? 3 A: Did you teli/fold him about the change of plans? B: Yes, | tod. lid 4 | dida’t see/didn't saw the reason for the delay, so | got/dlid get anary. Exercise 2 A ‘Complete the dialogue using the verbs from the lst below in the past simple. There is a mixture of affirmative, negative and question forms. There is one negative question. ge take think sell lke have (2) make 2) be (xa) buy a iL You (1) tM. ut the Milan Fashion Show lst week, didn you? 2) cucsnntnie YOU veneeniennenan & $004 tip? smu Yes, it was great. nae @) you any useful contacts? Wall, there (4) loads of people at the show, and I (5) su.s:ssmnnn a T0t of good contacts but We (6) soussnnn nnn Rea a$ many orders as last year pate: Oh, why was that? (7)... so EY our new styles? sii, No, n0, that (8) sss the problem. The shoes (9) really well, but we (10) .».$0 successful with some of our other products ike handbags, for example, and there (11) sisson muich more competition this year. pate: Who from? suki: Well, the Paul Smith stand was really busy DALE: Oh, but his clothes are expensive ... Um, (12) on people at the show a vvonunne OUF Prices Were 10 high? si Possibly: But We (13) snc the authority to lower them at the time. pave: Ob, what a shame,So it was a waste of a trip then? jm Well, not exactly 2. (14) sn this great pair of Prada shoes and this Gueci handbag... Exercise 3 BE’ Underline the best continuation of the conversations. 1A: What was she doing this morning? B: She interviewred was interviewing candidates for the sales job. ‘A: How did Brenda spend her holiday? : Most days she went/was going to the beach. ‘A: What happened after you launched the product? 8: While we promoted/were promoting it, our main competitor droppedi/vas dropping their prices. 4A: I didn’t see you in the office last week. 8B: No, | worked/was working at home for a few days. ‘A: What did Pat do when she saw the artwork? 8: She called/was calling the designers and said/was saying it wasn't suitable. ‘A: Why did Renata take so lang to get here? B: She said they mended/were mending the road and so the traffic moved! was moving very slowiy. BPASTTIME1 21 Exercise 4 (Al 06 Complete this article about Vivendi by putting each of the verbs in brackets into the past simple. Most of the verbs are imegular (see Appendix 2). Vivendi: 150 years of history fvendi, the French tilities and In the 1960s and 19705 the company +» Gell) $5 billion in V ‘communications group, has a long (6) wxone--su (begin) activities in theares assets and (14) waewnncnnamr (cut) the history going back to 1853. In that year the of civil construction and. @) ‘workforce by 10%. All this (15) Government (1) 4 (create) (build) a large tower block (ean) that an annual loss of $600 million Compagnie Generale des Eaux. The La Defense business district of Pati, (16) nensanne tur) Ito a profit oF $320 founders @).. (have) two During. the 1960s Generale des Faux million. Im 1998 Ne (1) sennneneene ‘objectives: to irigate the countryside for (8) vwnmnnn (join) with the Havas (change) the name ofthe group to Vivendi {farming and to supply water to towns and media group to create Canal Plus, 2 pay and soon after (18) onmnnman (make) 8 cities in France, TV channel. They also (9). series of partnerships and acquisitions in In 1880 2 treaty @) none (give) lake) a controlling stake in the civil the ielecommunications industry. Generale des Eaux the vight t0 supply engineering giant, SGE. In the 1990 they. Operations in North America Water to Venice, and then Constantinople (10) wwwernuue (Win) major contracts iM (19 ramonesen (grow) very quickly after and Oporto (4) mmmeweewien (Come) Soon the Asia Pacific region and in Latin this and in 2000 Vivendi (20) soem after, By the time of the centenary Ameria. (buy) Seagram to become a truly Celebrations in 1953 Generale des Eaux Jean-Marie Messier (tt) Intemational media and communications © -~ (Supply) water to eight (become) CEO in 1996 and (12), snilion poople no company, in France. (ran) the company along American lines Exercise 5 BIE Complete the sentences by putting the verbs in brackets nto either the past simple or past continuous. Sometimes the same tense is used twice; sometimes different tenses are used. 1 What «i ya (280 WheN YOU oo BNE nn (90) 0 Pats? 2 While | was..negotiating. (negotiate) the contract, my bos: whoned (phone) me to say that he wanted completely different conditions, 3. The last time something lke this see (HAPPEN), SHE snes (call) a press conference immediately. 4 Anne «- (explain) her proposal when Pedro (interrupt) her 5. We never got the chance to interview him. While we (investigate) the incident, he 7 (resign. 6 When he (finish) reading the article, he 7 «- (give) it to me. 7 Everyone... (wait for the meeting to begin when he co (cal) to say that he was stuck in a traffic jam. & When! (lean) the piece | « (drop) it by mistake. ot : (find) the missing file while |... llook) for some other documents, 10. When Tim .. (arrive), we (tel) him what had happened. 24 4pAST TIME 2 4 Practice Exercise 1A BF (units) Underline the correct words, This exercise includes exarnples of the past perfect, used 10, the past simple and past continuous. 1 While | ookedwas looking for my keys, | suddenly remembered | left/ad left them at home. 2. In those days the unions used to/had used to go on strike whenever there was/was being a problem, 3. Alter they were buying//had bought the company, they started/iere starting to make @ lot of people redundant. 4 Jack used to havelwas having a Mac, but then he used 10 change/changed to a PC. 5. Lasked about my package in reception, but they said/were saying that it stl hadn't arrived/ wasn’t amtving: 15 | was sure that | used to lock had locked the door to my office lastnight, but it was/had been open this morning, 7. Vim sure that the winters used to be/had been colder when | was a child. | remember that we used to walk were walking to school in the snow every winter 8 had gone/went back to the restaurant to look for my umbrella, but found/was finding that someone took had taken it. 9. When George saw/was seeing Diane at the seminar, he knew/was knowing that he met/had met her somewhere before. 10 While | hac/was having breakfast | looked! was looking at the financial pages to see the share prices. | saw/was seeing that my original investment grew/had grown by over 40% Exercise 2 A Bi (uinit'3) ‘Complete the sentences with the best form of the verb in brackets. in each sentence one verb will be in the past simple (unit 3) and the other in the past perfect. AV After she noon Ad MAGE... (make) 2 few notes, she started, (start) writing the introduction tothe Annual Report 2 Gary ennsnnnnnn (be sure) that he ssn (5) the ala before leaving the office. 31 (ald my wife on my mobile because the meeting (stil not fins. 4 once! astis (speak) to hi, | on Yealse there had been a misunderstanding 5 ALLE lc nemnn er (aive) he fist presentation, she (ee) much less nervous. 6 Before Euit ssn (Decome) Michael Edwards personal assistant she _ {already work) inthe company fortwo years. BY {not see the figures before the meeting, soit. (out) me a a disadvantage during the discussion Sonty it took so long, 1 {have to) go down tothe store room because we snus (UR OUT Of) Baper forthe photocopier. 9 Therain.. cnn (SOP) By te HME (get out of the tax 10 1 sn (be) surprised to find that she (akeady lave) eo 4 PASTTIME2 25 Exercise 3 Bi uinit)3) ‘Complete this magazine article by putting the verb in brackets into either the past simple or past perfect. In one case only the past perfect can be used, in five cases only the past simple can be used and in si cases both are possible, THE DANES SAY ‘NO’ (be) forced to ‘Denmark (1)..288A... vote) No’ to | agaist the German mrk, and this policy | intervene in the foreign exchange markets ‘ning the single European cureney. the | (5) ure, All the main poiical partes, the | maintaining stability and prosperity. Then But the No’ campaign ©).. (be) very successful in to buy euros. trades unions, the employers and the | the euro was launched in January 1999. In (focus) on national identity, not economic .- (campaign) for a | the period after the launch the countries in issues. Inthe end the Danes (10) Yes" vote before the referendum. So why | the euro zone (6)... (perform) (make) their decision because they @). (the Danes/reect the euro? | relatively well in economic terms. However, (11) ‘Let's look first al the economic | by the time of the referendum the euro _ integration would eventually lad to political ‘On 28 September, 2000 the people of | to keeping the vale ofthe krone sable | and Japan ().~ media (2). background. For many years the Danish (7)... (fall) significantly against integration, They (12). ve (fear) thal economic (vam t0 ‘the dollar, and the central banks of the USA keep their independence and freedom. Exei e4 AB unit3 Alanis talking about his first job. Complete what he says with the best form of the verb in brackets. Choose between the past simple (unit 3), past continuous (unit 3) or past perfect INTERVIEWER: So, Alan, why did you quit your last job? ALAN: Well atthe time I (1) ...€l@6..MOCKIAg.. (work) as a financial officer for an International Accountaney firm in London. 1 (2) -» (be) in the same company for three years. intenvieweR: How (3) . sen (YOu /get) the job? tan: Just ater I (4) esos (finish) university T (3) os (go) t0-a job fair 1 sell (6) (decide) what 1 wanted to do and I was interested to see what kind of jobs there (7) oonnnn (be) a the Fir While 1 (8) neon nnensnnen (HOOK) at information on one of the stands fora large international accountancy firm, someone ° sess (give) me an application form to fill in. I thought this might be a good career opportunity for me as I (10) oo-snsssennnennnn (ready /take) some accountancy exams for my degree, So I (11) (complete) the form and (12) wis (vend) it off They (13) (aterview) me the following week and I got job. A first, 1 (14) _. (feel) satisfied with the job, but as time went by, things (13) (change) and I began to hate working there. INTERVIEWER: So what (16) .. (@0) wrong? ALAN: Wel, the situation was this: (17) son {Qwork) for a person who was very

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