Page 8 - English 12 | Activity Book 6

Gap Filling

A Fill in the blanks with the simple past or the past progressive forms of the verbs in brackets.

1 Catherine ______________________ (still / prepare) lunch when the kids ______________________ (arrive) home.
As Sandra and her husband ______________________ (walk) down the street, they ______________________ (bump into) an
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old friend.
While I ______________________ (ride) my bicycle, I ______________________ (fall down) and ______________________ (hurt)
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myself.
4 Where ______________________ (he / go) when you last ______________________ (see) him?

Yesterday, Joe and David ______________________ (meet) at the café for coffee and chat, but they ______________________
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(not / ask) me to join them. That’s why I feel sad today.
Asmin ______________________ (not / listen) carefully while you ______________________ (tell ) her what had happened
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the previous day.
When she ______________________ (see) her niece, she ______________________ (start) to talk in a childish way, which was
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irritating.

B Fill in the blanks with the simple past or the past perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. When I ____________________ (enroll) on the course, I ____________________ (never / study) a foreign language before.
2. My mother ____________________ (realize) that she ____________________ (leave) her keys inside after she ____________________ (go)
out of the house.
3. Eliza looked rather unhappy, but I didn't know what ____________________ (happen) to her.
4. ____________________ (Thomas / already / set off ) when you ____________________ (ring) the doorbell?
5. By the time I ____________________ (move) in, they ____________________ (finish) the construction work.
6. Before the plane ____________________ (take off), we ____________________ (check in) at the airport.
7. They got disappointed and ____________________ (lose) the game after the opponent ____________________ (score) two goals
in a row.
8. Allan ____________________ (just / complete) the investigation before the director ____________________ (ask) for the report.

C Write the order number of the sentences in the box to make a meaningful paragraph.

a Maria was badly hurt when she was pulled underwater by the Indian Ocean tsunami of Boxing Day 2004.

b It took her more than three minutes to get out of the water. She held on to a tree when she came up.

Seconds later, Maria, her husband, and their three sons were swept away by a 30-foot wall of water that
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ate everything in its path, and they were never seen again.
She was scared and alone, and thought she was going to die. By a miracle, the mother and her family all
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survived.

e With her family by her side, Maria Belon thought she must be the luckiest woman in the world.

ORTAÖĞRETİM 8 ENGLISH-12
GENEL MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ