B1 UNIT 2 Extra Grammar Practice Extension

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Extra grammar practice extension B1 Unit

Past simple; Past continuous 3 The woman (shoplift) clothes worth


£1,000 while nobody (look).
1 Complete the dialogues with the past simple form
of the verbs in the box. 4 There (be) no answer because
everybody (call) the emergency
accuse • arrest • be • break • escape • find • have number.
not go • see • steal • take 5 I (leave) the sweets in the sun for a day
and they (melt)!
1 A: Why the police the
suspect? 4 Find and correct the mistakes. Two of the
B: Because they evidence he was sentences are correct.
near the bank yesterday. 1 My aunt was walking down the High Street when a
2 A: What they ? mugger stole her purse and phone.
B: They a diamond ring worth
£100,000 and then they through 2 I wasn’t looking and I hurted an old man with my
the window. umbrella. I apologised immediately!
3 A: What time they into
your flat? 3 While the police questioned the burglar, there was
B: In the morning, when I at work. another burglary in town.
My neighbour them running away.
4 A: What the police the 4 The detectives looked into the case when they came
businessman of? across some important evidence.

B: Fraud, I think. But he a good


lawyer, so he to prison in the end. 5 Did you behave well when you were at school?

2 Complete the text with the past simple form of


the verbs in the box. 5 Complete the text with the past simple or past
continuous form of the verbs in the box.
appear • be • become • change
die • love • not kill believe • come across • find • hear
kill • not help • sleep • travel
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was the creator of
Spain’s most famous detective, José ‘Pepe’ Carvalho. One of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels is Murder
Montalbán (a) a novelist, poet and on the Orient Express. Private detective Hercule
journalist from Spain. He was born in Barcelona and Poirot, (a) from Istanbul to London on
(b) the city very much. a luxurious train called the Orient Express when he
Detective Pepe Carvalho is a very funny man with a (b) an American businessman called Mr
passion for Barcelona’s food and football club. The Ratchett. Ratchett (c) that his life was
character of Pepe (c) for the first time in danger but Poirot (d) him. On the
in a novel in 1972, but he (d) a lot over second night of the journey, Poirot (e)
the years. Montalbán (e) never tired of in his bed when he (f) a cry from
his character and so (f) him in his stories. Ratchett’s compartment. The next morning, the train
Instead, Detective Pepe Carvalho sadly (g) staff (g) Mr Ratchett was dead. Poirot
with his creator in 2003. (h) the evidence and discovered that
Ratchett had killed someone in the US and that all the
3 Complete the sentences with the past simple or
past continuous form of the verbs given. people in the coach had a connection to that person’s
family. So, who (i) Ratchett?
1 When the inspector (arrive) on the crime
scene the police (collect) evidence.
2 They (investigate) the case when the
robbers (turn up) at the police station
and confessed.

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