Read the email and put the verbs in brackets into the correct past tense. Last week we asked the readers to send us descriptions of their funniest dreams. Here’s the winning email from Gerry in England. I 1) ..... (study) for an exam the whole evening so I was quite tired when I went to bed. In the dream I was at school. I 2) ..... (enter) my classroom and 3) ..... (sit) at my desk when suddenly I realised that all my classmates 4) ..... (wear) masks of farm animals! My teacher entered the room. I tried to read the test paper she 5) ..... (hand out) but all the questions were in some strange animal language with moos and baas! The rest of the class 6) ..... (write) their answers without any problem. In the morning I woke up and heard some cows outside my window. They 7) ..... (break) through our gate during the night. The noises they 8) ..... (make) all night had probably caused my dream!
- Учёба длилась весь вечер до того, как Джерри лёг спать: had been studying.
– . Во сне он вошёл и сел — два последовательных действия: entered, sat. . Одноклассники были в масках в момент, когда он это заметил: were wearing. . Учительница раздала лист, затем герой попытался его прочитать: handed out передаёт это событие по порядку рассказа. . Остальные в тот момент писали ответы: were writing. . Коровы прорвались через ворота ночью, до утреннего пробуждения: had broken. . Всю ночь они издавали звуки, которые и вызвали сон: had been making. Различаем завершённые события, фон и действие, предшествующее другому моменту прошлого.
I had been studying for an exam the whole evening so I was quite tired when I went to bed. In the dream I was at school. I entered my classroom and sat at my desk when suddenly I realised that all my classmates were wearing masks of farm animals! My teacher entered the room. I tried to read the test paper she handed out but all the questions were in some strange animal language with moos and baas! The rest of the class were writing their answers without any problem. In the morning I woke up and heard some cows outside my window. They had broken through our gate during the night. The noises they had been making all night had probably caused my dream!
