3. One evening there was some gun shooting in the park near your house. Use the words in brackets to make

sentences saying what each member of your family was doing at the time:

Example: (Don/have/a bath). Don was having a bath.

1. (Mother/cook/in the kitchen). Mother___________________________________________

2. (Father/make/a phone call). Father_____________________________________________

3. (I/get ready to go out). I______________________________________________________

4. (My sister/wash some clothes). My sister_________________________________________

4. A group of people were staying in a hotel. One evening the fire alarm rang. Use the words in brackets to make

sentences saying what each person was doing at the time:

Example: Anne (write/a letter in her room)

When the fire alarm rang, Anne was writing a letter in her room.

1. Don (have/a bath). 2. Carol and Dennis (have/ dinner). 3. Tom (make/a phone call). 4. George (get ready/ to go out). 5. David (watch/television). 6. Mary (chat/ with her friends in the lounge). 7. Martha (look through/ the Financial Times). 8. Linda and Paul (quarrel). 9. Brenda and her friends (enjoy/dancing in the discotteque). 10. John and Ringo (have/great fun in a hotel's bar). 11. The Whites (come downstairs/ to the hotel's restaurant). 12. Susan (wait/ for the lift to take her to her room).

5. Write a compound sentence made of two simple sentences, saying that two actions were going on at the same

time:

Example: I shaved. The children had breakfast.

While I was shaving, the children were having breakfast.

1. You had a bath. The girls washed the dishes. 2. You talked to Mary. I talked to John. 3. I made the tea. Jimmy cleaned the car. 4. Alison got ready. Graham fetched the car. 5. I had a holiday in France. My parents worked hard. 6. It rained. I walked up the hill. 7. The house burned down. We slept. 8. Jane and Lewis whispered in class. The monitor looked at them with indignation. 9. The children enjoyed playing cards. Their mothers chatted in another room. 10. There was a fight going on in the street. Two men hit each other. A lot of women and children watched them and shouted. 11. Anne and Bill met in the café by chance. They flirted, smiled at each other, drank coffee and ate cakes. Bill's girlfriend Jane laid in bed ill. 12. Anne and Bill left the café. They saw Jane and Harry who laughed and walked arm in arm.

6. Ask questions to the following statements. Begin with a given interrogative word (words):

Example: I was visiting my friend from 5 to 6 yesterday (Who ...)

Who were you visiting from 5 to 6 yesterday?

1. At 5 sharp Helen was talking to the Dean. (When ...) 2. The foreigner was speaking slowly because he wanted us to understand the joke. (How ... Why ...) 3. The Fretwells were travelling from India to China when they met the stranger again. (Where … to) 4. They were playing cards when the stranger appeared on the deck. (When ...) 5. The customs official was inspecting Bill's luggage when he heard an explosion. (What ...) 6. It was raining heavily as Jack was walking up the hill towards the station at 6 o'clock on a Saturday morning. (How ... Where ... to) 7. Just as Jack was crowing the road near the top of the hill, a car came round the corner. (What road ...) 8. Jack guessed at once that the driver was having difficulty in controlling it. (What difficulty ...) 9. While they were sailing up the west coast of Africa, they ran out of food. (Where ...) 10. The secretary was still dialling 911 when she saw the burglar again. (What ...) 11. Last year customers were getting used to soaring prices. (Who ...) 12. Some time ago we were expecting a number of cases featuring pharmaceutical companies. (What companies ... )