The simple past

Miss Hunt´s summer holiday

Tell the story in the simple past. Use the verbs from the box.

Miss Hunt really ______________ a quiet summer holiday, so she ______________ to a man at Holiday Fun. The man ________________ her some great pictures of the Alps. She _______________ , "Can you find a hotel for me there, please?" At home, she ________________ to cassettes every night, and she _______________ a lot of German. School _______________ at 3.30 on 17th July and her trip _________________ at 3.45. The mountains and the lakes _______________ great, and she ________________ mountains every day. But after a week she ______________ a bit lonely. Then on the eighth day a funny thing ________________ . There _______________ a man next to her in front of a shop. She _______________ at him, and he ________________ at her. Then they ______________ . It _______________ Mr Martin from Kingsway!

English G 2000 6, Unit 1, Cornelsen Verlag Berlin, 1998, page 16