Solutions Unit 2

Complete the sentences with Past Simple and Past Continuous: The boy _______________________ (sit) on a bench in the park _______________________ (read) a book.

Complete the sentences with Past Simple and Past Continuous: The man _______________________ (take) my handbag while I _______________________ (sit) in the restaurant.

Complete the sentences with Past Simple and Past Continuous: The policeman _______________________ (notice) the blood on the floor when he first

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(enter) the room.

Complete the sentences with Past Simple and Past Continuous: I _______________________ (try) to sleep when the doorbell _______________________ (ring).

Complete the sentence with Past Simple and Past Continuous: The accident happened because the man _______________________ (drive) and _______________________ (talk)

on his mobile phone at the same time.

1 Nauru is a small rock island in the Pacific O_ _ _ _ , almost 4,000 km from Australia.

2 Primrose H_ _ _ in Regent’s Park is only 78 m high, but you can get a great view of London from the top!

3 When Mount Vesuvius – the v_ _ _ _ _ _ – erupted in 79 AD, it destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

4 Tower Bridge across the R_ _ _ _ Thames in London is a famous tourist attraction.

5 Some of the trees in the Black F_ _ _ _ _ are very old.

6 Parliament Street in the city of Exeter, England, is so n_ _ _ _ _ that two people can’t walk together at the same time.

7 Loch Ness in Scotland is a very d_ _ _ lake – it’s over 226 m from the surface to the bottom!

8 The Nile is 6,853 km long, but only 2.8 km w_ _ _ , from shore to shore.

1 Watching the BASE jumpers land safely in the valley was f__________________ (very good).

2 After we had walked 50 km across the desert, I was s__________________ (very hungry).

3 The place where we stayed when we were hiking was f__________________ (very dirty).

4 That meal we had at the Chinese restaurant last night was d__________________ (very tasty).

5 The brown bear that was walking towards us looked e__________________ (very big).

6 What we could see from the top of the mountain was a__________________ (very surprising).