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(find) ____________ his glasses he (run) ____________ out of the house. ____________
unfortunately for him, the police (wait) ____________ for him at the end of the garden.
Put the verb in brackets into the correct form. Where possible, use 'used to' and 'would'.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens ____________ (born) in 1812 in Portsmouth. The family ____________ (move)
to London in 1823. When he was twelve he ____________ (work) in a blacking factory. He
worked by a window facing the street and passersby ____________ (pause) and watch him at
work. Every day he ____________ (trudge) through the London streets from Camden Town to
Southwark. His family ____________ (be) very poor. His mother ____________ (hope) to open a
small school. While she ____________ (try) to do this, her husband ____________ (send) to
prison for being 40 in debt. When Charles ____________ (be) twenty-four, his first
work, sketches by Boz, ____________ (publish). This ____________ (follow) by Pickwick
Papers with which he ____________ (achieve) financial security and popularity. For the rest of
his life, work simply ____________ (pour) from his pen. He ____________ (die) of a stroke in
1870.
Put the verb in brackets into the correct form. Where both the past simple and past perfect
simple are possible, write 'BOTH'.
1. Until I ____________ (explain) the situation to her I felt guilty.
2. After I ____________ (finish) my lunch I went back to work.
3. When the police ____________ (interview) me they let me go home.
4. As soon as I got home my brother ____________ (go out).
5. The children had to stay in until the rain ____________ (stop)
6. When I ____________ (see) John coming towards me I walked in the other direction.
7. I phoned my mother to find out why she ____________ (not write) for so long.
8. We stayed in our seats until the film ____________ (finish).
Continue the following sentences using the words in bracket in either the past perfect
simple or continuous.
1. My landlord threw me out of my flat because (not pay the rent for six months / and
break all the windows)
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2. When I eventually got to the meeting I was bad tempered and exhausted! I (sit in traffic
jam for 45 minutes / motorist bump into me / and get completely lost)
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3. By the time 5 o'clock arrived Brenda was furious. She (wait for an hour / drink six cups
of tea / and they still not arrive)
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4. I was so depressed that I couldn't do the exam. I (study every day for two months / and
give up see my friends)
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think I've forgotten to tell you, Ruddy Wee Hoody (14) (be) rather a plump young girl, and
(15) (promise) to be a bit more nourishing than her old gran, who (16) (be) to be honest, a bit
on the skinny side.
Not long after, the little girl herself (17) (arrive) at the door. She (18) (be) a bit out of breath
because she (19) (run). 'Hopefully that's the last I've seen of that wolf,' she (20) (mutter) to
herself, wondering if in fact he wasn't perhaps a little strange after all. Famous last words! Before
she even had time to ring the bell, she heard a voice. 'Come on in dearie, it's open', (21) (say)
the wolf, who (22) (watch) her walk up the path, from the bedroom window. 'That's funny',
(23) (think) the girl, 'her voice seems a bit deeper than usual. Perhaps she's got a cold.' Then
she (24) (remember) that her mother (25) (tell) her that her gran (26) (be) ill, and that was why
she (27) (take) her the food.
Part 4
And when she (1) (see) her gran propped up in bed, it was true, she (2)(not seem) to be quite
her usual self. She (3) (wear) her usual night gown alright, and her enormous nightcap. But
there was something about her that (4) (not be) quite right. Her eyes (5) (seem) bigger than
normal, and so did her ears, not to mention her enormous hooter. And just as Ruddy Wee Hoody
was starting to say something about her gran's rather large teeth, before she (6) (can) even get
the words out, the wolf (7) (decide) that enough was enough, that he (8) (can't keep) this up
any longer, so he (9) (jump) out of bed, remembering a phrase he (10) (read) in some nursery
rhyme or other, and which (11) (sound) rather appropriate to the occasion. 'All the better to eat
you with', he (12) (snarl). Ruddy Wee Hoody (13) (be) quick to retort: 'Shouldn't that be "All the
better with which to eat you"?'. 'Yeah, whatever', (14) (snap) back the wolf, by now thoroughly
fed up with all this constant grammatical criticism, and he quite literally (15) (wolf) her down,
right there on the spot.
Now some people say that this sort of story has to have a happy ending, and insist that a hunter
(16) (happen) to be passing at that very moment (as they often do in fairy stories), and being a
quick-witted sort of chap, (17) (open) up the wolf and (18) (rescue) both the unfortunate
victims before you could say 'Jack Robinson'.
But there's another darker theory that questions whether Ruddy Wee Hoody was quite what she
seemed, and rumour has it that at this very moment she (19) (whip) out a gun that for some
reason she (20) (carry) in her knickers that day, and that she (21) (shoot) the wolf stone dead.
And there's yet another version, which suggests that Ruddy Wee Hoody (22) (meet) a sticky
end at the hands of an ecomaniacal woodchopper, who, (23) (not read) the story, (24) (not
realise) that he (25) (be) meant to save her. What's more, he (26) (see) her picking the flowers
in the clearing earlier on, and being incensed at this act of wanton vandalism, (27) (decide)
to avenge the poor flowers, which was exactly what he (28) (do).