UNIT TWO. 2.1 wish I hadn't accepted the challenge.

PART 2

3.

1.1 wish I had a car.

2.1 wish I hadn't accepted the challenge.

3.1 wish I were a good story-teller.

4.1 wish the aunt would learn to tell good stories. 5. I wish the children had admired my story. 6.1 wish the children would behave well.

7. I wish I could speak English fluently.

8. I wish I lived near my work.

9. I wish we had booked the restaurant.
10. I wish Tom would drive more carefully.
11.1 wish I hadn't left my last job.

12. I wish he would have his hair cut more often.

13. I wish you had asked him how to get there.

14. I wish I knew the answer.

15. I wish they had come to his rescue.

16. I wish her dreams would come true.

4.

1. His brother is taller than him.

2. He doesn't look as old as he really is.

3. You haven't known them as long as I have.

4. Last year the winter was colder than this winter, wasn't it?

5. We used to go out more often than now.

6. I don't live as far from the school as them.

7. The performance wasn't as enjoyable as we had expected.

8. He should read more.

9. She had more medals than anybody else.

10. These rhythms and tunes aren't as popular as they used to be in my
childhood.

11. Is anybody here more bored with this exercise than me?

5.

1. Who wasn't allowed in the park?

2. What kind of things were there in the park?

3. Who talked about her goodness?

4. What didn't the Prince keep?

5. What did he decide to have?

6. What colour was the wolf?

7. What was the wolf doing when he heard the sound of the medals
clinking?

8. Why did the story-teller pause?

9. Where did she hide herself?

10. How well did the story begin?

11. What kind of ending did it have?

Keys

UNIT THREE

PART1

3.

a) Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, used to do

1. 1 had hoped to visit the Tower of London before I left London, but it turned out to be closed.

2. The sun had risen and they could see the mountain peaks.

3. Whoever it was who made the bet was likely to lose it.

4. It was exactly the question that I wanted to ask.

5. The police were looking for him everywhere but he had vanished in
the crowd.

6. When the novelty had worn off, fewer and fewer people watched the
talk-show, and its rating fell.

7. At the time of Columbus's arrival about one million native people were
living in America.

8. Columbus called these people " Indians" because he thought that he
had reached the coast of India.

9. My friend gave the book back to me, thanked me and said that he had
enjoyed it very much.

10.1 thought my train was due to leave at 9.00 and I was baffled when I ar­rived at the station at 8.50 and found out that it had already left. 11.1 kept looking at him wondering where I had seen him.

12. As he was talking about his school days, it suddenly clicked where I
had met him before.

13. My sister used to be very slim when she was younger, now she's put on
a lot of weight.

14. The economy of those countries was improving by leaps and bounds
during the late 1990s.

15. People dashed out into the street to see what had happened.

16. When the police arrived they found out that the criminal had escaped.

17. When she was young, she used to be a woman of extraordinary beauty.

18. He gave a gasp of amazement, as if he had never seen anything like
that before.

19. He found the place where he had left the colonists completely deserted.

20. While you were travelling around the world, I was studying twelve
hours a day for my exams.

b) Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous

1. Yesterday Peter went to the station to meet his girlfriend. When he got there, she had already been waiting for him for ten minutes because her train had arrived earlier.

2.1 wasn't hungry and didn't eat anything at lunch because I had had an enormous breakfast.

3. When I met him in the street, he looked very tired. He had been working
very hard for a few days trying to finish an urgent job.

4. My husband gave up smoking two years ago. He had smoked for
twenty years.

5. They were very good friends. They had known each other for twenty
years.

6. When Paul arrived at the party, most of the guests had already gone
home.

7. When Paul arrived at the party, the guests had been sitting at the table
for two hours and had eaten almost all the delicious things the hostess
had cooked.

8. It wasn't snowing when we went out. The sun was shining and there
was a lot of snow. It had been snowing the whole night.

c) Past Perfect Continuous, Past Continuous

1. They were very tired when they reached the peak of the mountain. They
had been climbing tor five hours.

2. When he came in, everybody was sitting at the table and talking.
3. 1 met Paul and Linda in the park yesterday while I was walking there.

They had been to the tennis court where they had been playing tennis for two hours.

4. While he was working in the garden, the telephone kept ringing, but
he couldn't hear it.

5. How fast were you driving when the accident happened?

6. How long had you been driving when the accident happened?

7. How long had he been trying to find a new job before he found the job
in this firm?

8.1 heard the footsteps behind me and understood that I was being followed.

4.