.Problems on the phone. Complete the text with the correct form of these expressions: be engaged / hang up / call straight back / get cut off
get through / get the wrong number
I’ve had a terrible morning! I’ve been trying to (1) …… to Mr Francis for the last hour and a half. First I (2) ……….. - an old lady answered the phone and started telling me about her cats! Then when I did dial the right number it (3) …………. - he seems to spend most of his day on the phone. Finally, after about twenty attempts, his secretary answered the phone. She was just about to put me through, when we (4) …………. - I don’t know what happened. Anyway, I (5) ……………and finally I got to speak to him. I was just about to tell him about the meeting when he suddenly told me that he had to speak to somebody urgently on another line. I couldn’t believe it - he just (6) …………… on me!

1) What's the matter? My car has just been stolen

2) One of the theatres in our city is being reconstructed now.

3) That house was sold a long time ago.

4) Jin said the room had already been cleaned

5) All the banks are closed on Sundays.

6) The documents will have been signed by 5 p.m.

7) We were being followed on our way home yesterday.

8) My sister will be taken to hospital tomorrow.

9) The cake smells so nice. It has just been baked

10) The conference room is being used at the moment.

11) When we arrived at the airport, we found that the flight had been concelled

12) The flowers in the flowerbeds (are being watered, were watered, will have been watered) by this evening.

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1. A few weeks ago, I READ in the newspaper that our parliamentary representative WANTED to visit France.

2. Aunt Judith ARRIVED yesterday evening, but I HAVEN'T SEEN her yet.

3. What WERE YOU DOING between 9 and 12 yesterday morning? – I WAS CLEANING the house the whole morning.

4. He usually READS the newspaper in the morning but when I SAW him yesterday, he WAS READING a book.

5. I HAVE BEEN SMOKING for 15 years. I WAS 16 when I STARTED.

6. We ARE LEAVING tomorrow morning. The train LEAVES at 7:45 a.m.

7. He CRASHED his car into a tree because he WASN'T PAYING attention to the road.