Mixed tenses (text based)

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Mixed tenses (text based). Recupero. **. **1 Completa il testo con la forma corretta dei verbi tra parentesi (past tenses). Last week Sam 0 went (go) to school in ...
Mixed tenses (text based)

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**1 Completa il testo con la forma corretta dei verbi tra parentesi (past tenses). Last week Sam 0 went (go) to school in his new car. While the class 1_____________ (do) an exercise, the head teacher, Ms Brown, 2_____________ (come) in. She seemed very angry. She said that a policeman 3 _____________ (ring) the school saying that a stolen car 4_____________ (see) in the school car park. She said the car was a red sports car with the number plate JAF67JK. Sam was shocked because it was the number of his car. Then he 5_____________ (remember) what had happened at the weekend. On Saturday afternoon his new car 6 _____________ (disappear) from the road in front of his house. Sam called the police but ten minutes later his brother drove up. ‘What 7_____________ (you / do) in my car?’ asked Sam. ‘I borrowed it because I wanted to go to the shops,’ his brother said, ‘I thought you 8_____________ (not need) it’. Sam was so happy to get his car back that he 9_____________ (forget) to phone the police to tell them that he had his car back. Now Sam didn’t know what to do. If he 10_____________ (tell) Ms Brown what had happened he 11 _____________ (be) in trouble but if he 12_____________ (not tell) her they 13_____________ (take) his car away. He was just about to put his hand up when Frank Marsden put up his hand and said, ‘I 14_____________ (find) the keys in the corridor miss. It’s a beautiful car and I wanted to take it for a drive, it wasn’t really stolen.’ Sam looked in his bag. The keys weren’t there. Frank must 15_____________ (take) the car for a drive without Sam knowing. Sam was furious with Frank but then he thought, ‘If I 16_____________ (not say) anything both of us 17 _____________ (be) in really serious trouble because they’ll think Frank stole the car on Saturday.’ Sam put his hand up slowly. ‘Please miss, it’s my car. I reported the car stolen on Saturday and forgot to tell the police I had found it again. I gave Frank the keys so he 18_____________ (can) go for a drive.’ Ms Brown looked confused for a moment and then said, ‘Come with me both of you. We 19_____________ (have) a long chat in my office, you have both got a lot of explaining to do.’

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