Dear Mary!i hope that New Year Day will bring you lots of fun.
Kate is asking her Mum to bring some basketball magazines , come and meet her after work at St.Andrew's hospital where Kate's visting her friend Phil who was placed there after he had fallen and hurt his knee playing basketball at school.
a) The tower ___ 6) clock __ is five minutes slow. If the police __ 6) clock ___ him doing 120 miles an hour, they will fine him.
b) The match ended in a __8) draw ___. We watched the train __8) draw ___ into the station.
c) Do you know how to __3) go___ about writing a CV? The shop is no __3) go___ for dogs.
d) The majority of the population live off the __5) land ___ here. You could ___5) land __ up in serious debt!
e) Ten from thirty – how much does that __1) leave___? Have you taken ___1) leave__ of your senses to do a thing like that?
Past Simple-Здесь очень легко провести параллель с русским языком. Все то, что мы привыкли относить к прошлому, выражает Past Simple (Indefinite). Именно поэтому его и называют простым временем, которое передает обычные действия и единичные факты.
Past Continuous-на русский язык это предложение в прошедшем времени,несовершенный вид.