Complete the email with phrases from A-H below. Subject Expedition to Bolivia
Just a quick email to say that I think everyone's ready for the trip tomorrow. I rang round the students this evening to check. Grace has finally got her train ticket - she (0) H. for it for ages because they (1) … a mistake with the time of the train. Irina (2) for her ticket when I spoke to her, so I told her to go online and print it out from there. Lily seems on top of things - she (3) … when I called. Oh, Grace had to go out at the last minute and buy a new bag as she (4) … two bags before she realised that we can only check in one piece of luggage!
By the way, I haven't got details of the hostel yet. When I spoke to the travel agent yesterday, they (5) … enquiries about a better one earlier in the day, and they were waiting to hear back. They're going to call me first thing tomorrow morning. They've been really good, actually - they (6) … to change the hostel before calling me because they weren't happy with the first one.
I must go. I (7) … to pack before I called the students so I'll finish now. I'll see you at the airport tomorrow evening.
Julia
A was starting B had made C had been making
D was packing E had packed F was still waiting
G had decided H had been waiting
2. GRAMMAR. .
2.1
Change the verbs in brackets into the past tense. Some are regular and
some are irregular.
a
Yesterday was 1).
busy day. I woke
2)
up at 6am, had 3)
breakfast quickly and
then I went 4).
to work. I finished 4).
at noon
and then ate
5)
some lunch.
Afterwards I drove
6)
to the shops, bought 7).
some paint and then
painted 8)
my bedroom. My housemate came
9)
home from work so I helped 10.
him paint
his room, then we repaired 11)
his chair. After that I cleaned
12)
my house. I vacuumed 13).
all the
downstairs and then tidied 14).
up the living room and the
kitchen. I was pretty tired by then so I ate 15).
some dinner and
went 16)
to bed!