III. Comprehension check

1. Answer the questions:

1. What was Susan Fisher doing when the fire alarm rang?

2. Why couldn’t she go down?

3. What were people on the roof doing when Susan got there?

4. What happened before the roof collapsed?

5. Where was Linda Reed spending her vacation?

6. What was she doing when the volcano erupted?

7. What did she see when she looked out of the window?

8. What was she doing when the lava hit town?

9. What were Richard Phillips and his wife doing in Los Angeles?

10. What were they doing when the earthquake began?

11. What were they doing when the ceiling collapsed?

2. Say if the sentences are tRue or false. Correct the false ones

1. Susan Fisher was sleeping peacefully at her desk when the fire alarm rang.

2. The elevator was not working when Susan rushed out of her office.

3. Susan had to run down the stairs from the 28^th floor.

4. When she got to the roof everybody else was screaming for help there.

5. Linda Reed was exercising when the volcano erupted.

6. When she looked out of the window everybody was running towards the harbor.

7. She was running to the harbor when the lava hit town.

8. Richard Phillips was staying with his relatives in Los Angeles when the earthquake happened.

9. They were cooking their breakfast when the earthquake began.

10. They were hiding under the table when the ceiling collapsed.

Exercises

1. Read the text and open the brackets. Use Past Continuous or Past Simple. An ambulance

I (drive) along the High Street this morning when I (hear) a siren. An ambulance (come up) behind me. Its lights (flash) and its siren (wail). I (want) to drive my car out of its way, but I couldn’t get through the traffic. All the other drivers just (sit) there, not trying to move out of the way, while the ambulance (get) through. I was really worried that someone (suffer) somewhere, waiting for the ambulance to come and help them. It’s really annoying when people are so selfish.

2. Bill spent all the previous week travelling while his wife Melissa had to stay at home. Look at the chart and read the sentences below. Then finish the sentences about what Melissa and Bob were doing.

Date	Melissa’s week	Bill’s week
Saturday 11th June	Shop at a supermarket	Fly to Italy
Sunday 12th June	Take the children to the swimming pool.	Do a bus tour of Rome
Monday 13th June (a.m.)	Take the children to school	Take pictures of Colosseum
Monday 13th June (p.m.)	Collect the children from school.	Visit the Vatican museums
Tuesday 14th June	Clean the car	Enjoy Italian cuisine
Wednesday 15th June	Work in the garden	Drive to Sorrento
Thursday 16th June	Go shopping with friends	Cruise to the isle of Capri
Friday 17th June	Change library books	Take a gondola trip around Venice
Saturday 18th June	Visit my mother-in-law in hospital	Do a walking tour of Milan
Sunday 19th June	Meet Bill at the airport	Fly home to Britain
Monday 20th	Take the children to school, go to the supermarket etc., etc.	Sleep!

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