1 GRAMMAR WORKSHEET A Narrative tenses Gramatyka

1 Choose the correct alternative. 3 Work in pairs. Find seven differences between the
two pictures. Use the past continuous.
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In picture A, a girl was looking out of the window, but
You will never believe what happened to us!
in picture B, a boy was looking out of the window.
Yesterday afternoon it 1rained / was raining
heavily when Millie and I 2walked / Picture A
were walking home from school.
Suddenly, Millie 3dropped / was dropping
her phone. It 4fell / was falling on the
ground and 5got / was getting wet. It
doesn’t work now.

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Did you hear what happened to Joe? While he

6
revised / was revising for a history test,
he 7got / was getting a strange email. Joe
8
read / was reading it when he 9realised /
was realising that it wasn’t for him because
the email contained all the answers to
tomorrow’s test!
The email was for his history teacher who has
the same name as Joe. Joe 10decided /
was deciding to contact the teacher and tell
him about it. I think it was a good decision.

2 Complete the dialogue with the correct past perfect

or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
Picture B
Jamal What 1 (you / do) at the
weekend?
Freya Well, my sister, Jen, and I wanted to make
tacos for Saturday dinner.
Jamal Were they good?
Freya We didn’t find out! We 2
(use) a new recipe which we
3
(see) on a cooking
programme on YouTube. Before we
4
(start) cooking, we
5
(watch) the video
again and Jen 6 (write
down) a list of food we had to buy. Then we
7
(go) shopping.
Jamal So what was the problem?
Freya We couldn’t buy the Mexican things on our
list! Our supermarket didn’t have them.
Jamal Did you go to another supermarket?
Freya Yes, we went to three different ones and two
hours later we 8 (buy)
everything we needed.
Jamal That’s great!
Freya Not really. It was so late and we were so
hungry that we 9
(have to) stop for a pizza before we
10
(get) home. So we
never made the tacos.

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