3 Narrative tenses 4 Reading

> See Grammar SLimmary, File 6:

Narrative tenses (SB page 152).

Complete the gaps by putting the verbs

in brackets in the correct tense. Use the
past continuous (was workjftg) or the
past perfect ( 7!¢d worked) .

A music expert?
This happened to me several years ago

when I I (work) in a
record shop in Oxford Street in London. I

was a rock music fanatic and I thought I

knew everything there was to know.

At that time I 2

out with a girl called Terri, and one night

When we 3 (have) dinner

in a restaurant she told me that she

(buy) two tickets for a

concert for the following night. She said

that it was a new rock band who often

played in a pub near where she lived. She

(see) them
four or five times before and she was

absolutely..sure they 6

to be famous one day.

The next day, we arrived a bit late at

the pub and the concert 7

(start).The group

(play) rock music very

loudly and a lot of people 9

(dance). I still remember the name of the

Read the text about Julian and Sean Lennon, John Lennon's sons.
song= The Sultans of Swing.
Write J or S next to the questions.
After about an hour I said to my :,

1 l^7ho is the older son?

girlfriend, `Let's go -l'm tired.' My
girlfriend was angry but outside the pub I
told her that I '°
hundreds of pub groups who were much
better than that band. `They'll never be
famous,' I said, `you'Il see!' The name of
the group? Dire Straits.
2 Who did John spend more time with?
3 Who learned to play the guitar with one of the other
Beatles?
4 Whose mother is Yoko Ono?
5 Who did John sing a song about?
6 Who thinks being the son of John was a disadvantage?
7 Who inherited more money when John died?