Exercise №1 put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous. dialog 1. speaker1 : are you alright? you look tired. speaker 2: yes i am. i didn’t sleep very well. i 1) had just gone to sleep last night when a lot of noise woke me up. i got up and went to the window. i (stand) there for a few minutes when two police cars stopped outside my house. i went downstairs and a policeman told me that two prisoners 3) (escape) from prison and were hiding in the area . speaker 1 : did they catch them again? speaker 2 : yes, but i didn’t sleep very well after that . dialog 2. speaker1 : did you do anything exciting at the weekend? speaker 2 : not really. by the time i (do) my shopping and cleaned the house, saturday was nearly over. what about you ? speaker1 : well, i 2) (plan) to go out with my friend but she was late and i 3) (wait) for nearly two hours before she phoned me to say she couldn’t come after all. speaker 2 : that’s a shame. next weekend, we should go somewhere nice together. exercise №2 put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous. 1. julia wanted to sit down as she (stand) at work all day long. 2. they (decorate) the new year tree before the children arrived. 3. bob (eat up) all the muffins by lunchtime. 4. my sister (do) the laundry since early morning. 5. i knew that our parents (grow) melons in their greenhouse since they bought the house. exercise №3 put the verbs in bold into appropriate tense. 1. to listen my head hurt because i to music for three hours. – i knew the names of the robbers because i to the news on tv. 2. to build they a new school for six months when there was an earthquake. – they a new block of flats by december.
