5 Complete the diary page with the simple past form of the verbs in parentheses. Are the verbs
affirmative or negative?
Yesterday was a horrible day! I didn't hear
(hear)
the alarm clock, and I
(wake up)
I usually take the bus, but it 2
(leave) without me, so I
(walk). It 4
(be) freezing
and 15
(have) my jacket. I
(arrive) at school miserable, late,
and cold! We
(have) a math test
(know) the answers to the
ock questions. 1
(pass) it! After school
,
we had an important basketball game - the final of the
School Championship. We lo
(play)
well
, and we
(win) the cup!
7
and 18
11
lak
A TRAVELLER'S TALE
It (happen)1 _happened_ many years ago. I was in India. I was hunting there. Once I spent the whole day in the jungle. It had got completely dark when I (decide)2 _decided_ to return to my camp. I was walking along a narrow path. Strange sounds (hear)3 _were heard_ everywhere. On my right there was a river and on my left there was a thick tropical forest.
Suddenly I (see)4 _saw_ something terrible in the jungle on my left. Two green eyes (look)5 _were looking_ at me. It was a man-eating tiger, ready to spring at me.
I knew that if I started to run the tiger would catch me easily. As I could swim well I (make up)6 _made up_ my mind to escape that way. I looked at the river on my right. There in the river, was a huge crocodile. It (wait)7 _was waiting_ for me with open jaws.
I fainted. A moment later I jumped to my feet again. What do you think I saw? The tiger (be)8 _was_ in the jaws of the crocodile.
Five years (pass)9 _have passed_ since that time but I (remember, still)10 _still remember_ every moment of that terrible night.