Aufgabe A
Complete these sentences with a phrase in the past continuous.
Beispiel:
The phone rang while I was working in the garden.
1. Her brakes failed when __________________________________________________
2. He did a PhD while _____________________________________________________
3. There was an announcement when _______________________________________
4. We saw a musical while _________________________________________________
5. I made a mistake when __________________________________________________
6. Our food was brought while ______________________________________________
7. He cut himself when ____________________________________________________
8. Bob arrived when ________________________________________________________
Aufgabe B
Complete these sentences with a phrase in the simple past.
Beispiel:
While I was working in the garden, the phone rang.
1. When we were looking out of the window, ________________________________
2. While she was giving a presentation, _____________________________________
3. When we were watching television, _______________________________________
4. While I was looking for my keys, ________________________________________
5. When the plane was taking off, __________________________________________
6. While she was sleeping, __________________________________________________
7. When I was overtaking a car on the motorway, __________________________
8. While we were writing the invitations, ___________________________________
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Aufgabe C
Answer these questions using a sentence in the past perfect.
1. Why couldn’t he find his keys?
2. Why did they call an ambulance?
3. Why didn’t she pass the exam?
4. Why did you walk to work?
5. Why wasn’t he allowed to board the airplane?
6. Why did Helen look thinner?
Aufgabe D
Report what these people said.
Beispiel:
Amandine: “I don’t understand.”
Amandine said that she didn’t understand.
1. Katrin: “I am going to visit my parents tomorrow.”
2. Bob: “I will talk to the trainees when I get back from Belgium.”
3. Claire: “We met some nice American people while we were visiting London
last year.”
4. Helen: “I am too busy to read these e-mails at the moment.”
5. Michael: “Katrin has not finished writing her letter but she is going to send
it as soon as she has.”
6. Amandine: “We weren’t able to reach our boss on the phone.”
Aufgabe E
Write a letter of complaint about one of the following problems:
a) Something that went wrong during a journey
b) Poor service in a hotel
c) A product you bought and are not happy with
Write about 150 words.
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