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5A GRAMMAR  past tenses: simple, continuous, perfect

Complete the story using the verbs in brackets in the past simple, past continuous, or past perfect.
Write the answers in the column on the right.

My car nightmare
1
This story 1  (happen) to me one really hot summer happened
about five years ago. It’s probably the worst thing that’s
2 bought
ever happened to me while driving a car. I 2  (buy)
3
my car the week before and I 3  (still feel) very excited still felt
4 4 didn´t have
about it. It   (not have) air conditioning, but that
5 5 didn´t matter
  (not matter) to me because it was my first ever car!
I 6  (know) that my best friend Penny 7  (always
6 knew 7 always has wanted
want) to visit a picturesque little village in the mountains
8 called
about 150 kilometres from where we live, so I 8  (call)
9 I had told
her and 9  (tell) her that I would take her there the
following day.
10 11
It 10  (be) a perfect, hot summer day. The sun 11  Was shone
12 12 driving
(shine) and the sky was blue. While I   (drive) and we
13
  14
(chat), I   (see) something out of the corner
13 chatting 14 saw
15
of my eye. It was a wasp which 15  (fly) into the car! flew
16 16 tried
Penny and I both   (try) to kill the wasp, which then
17 17 It had started
  (start) buzzing around inside the car. Suddenly
18 19
the wasp 18  (disappear). Then I 19  (feel) a pain in dissapear felt
20 21
my arm; the wasp 20  (sting) me! I forgot that I 21  had stung drove
22 22 crashed
(drive), and…BANG! I   (crash) into the car in front of
us. Nobody was hurt, but that was the end of our day out.

ACTIVATION
Test your memory. Cover the column on the right and look at the story. Read the story aloud with the
verbs in the correct form.
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English File fourth edition Teacher’s Guide Intermediate  Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2019

4036030 EF4e Int PCMs.indb 157 17/10/2018 14:16

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