4. Past Simple vs Progressive
Past (2. Stammform: had, saw, went etc.) or Progressive (was/were having, was/were going etc.)?

Last year I (a. to provide) _ _ _ first aid for the first time when I (b. to be)

_ in Reading to visit a friend of mine. We (c. to sit) in John’s garden

when we suddenly (d. to hear) __ __ a squeal of tyres (‘Reifenquietschen’) and

a bang. Then there (e. to be) a lot of shouts and cries. I immediately (f. to know)

_ what (g. to go on) __ ___ _ . I (h. to rush) through

the garden gate, and when I (i. to reach) _ the car I (k. to see) _

two injured persons: The driver (l. to sit) _ __ behind the steering wheel, and

blood (m. to run) __ _ _ _ from a wound to his head; his wife (n. to lie)

_ on the ground beside the open left-hand door. Some neighbours or passers-

by (o. to help) __ _ _ her, so I (p. to open) ___ _ the other door and

carefully (q. to drag) _ _ him out of the car and (r. to put) _ him in a

side position. I (s. to talk) _ ___ to him and (t. to try) ___ to stop the

20 blood with a paper hanky when the ambulance (u. to arrive) _ _ _ _ .

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africa -  africanindia -  indiantropic - tropical

i will try to lead small excursion on our apartment for you. so, having entered into apartment, we appear in a spacious hall. at the left there is a case and a hanger for clothes, and on the right - a curbstone and a mirror. there and then near to one party an input in kitchen, with another - doors in a bedroom of parents and a children's room. in a children's room it is light and spacious, there is an exit on a loggia. we manage here with the brother together. in our bedroom there are two beds. the left corner occupies clothes, nearby - a case for toys and books. by the way, at us fine children's library, in it very interesting books are collected. too it is a lot of toys - my brother still small.on the right party along a wall stand a curbstone for the tape recorder and the tv, a desk behind which i do homework, i draw. to tell the truth, on my desk the disorder quite often reigns, and mum is sometimes angry at me for it. over a table - book shelves where there are my textbooks, and also volumes from a series «children's encyclopaedia» which i sometimes like to esteem. on one of shelves i have allocated a place for a corner where has collected various bagatelles for memory of a trip on the sea: beautiful stones, sea cockleshells, souvenirs. i all it has arranged so that every morning, having opened eyes, i could admire beauty which reminds me that soon again there will come summer, and we all family will go again to the tender and warm sea. now you represent, as our apartment looks. come to us on a visit - and you will see, how at us is pure and cosy.

two bears,two elephants,five parrots,three tigers,four foxes.