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EXERCISE 4 Fill in the blanks with Simple Past or Past Continuous forms of the verbs in
parentheses.

I 1) _______________ (meet) him on a train to Crabhill, a small town in the south of England where I would start
my one week voluntary job. It was an unusually warm day for England. The sun 2) _______________ (shine) and

there was not a single cloud in the sky. When we 3) _______________ (start) to talk, we 4) _______________ (find
out) that we 5) _______________ (head) for the same place. I remember very clearly, even after 12 years, what he
6) _______________ (wear). He 7) _______________ (have) those blue jeans, a red shirt and a pair of trainers. He

also 8) _______________ (have) glasses which I 9) _______________ (find) so cute. He 10) _______________
(seem) uncomfortable with his looks. I 11) _______________ (start) the conversation because I was quite a chatter

box then. I just 12) _______________ (like) talking with people. He told me he 13) _______________ (have) a
hard time back at home trying to find a decent job and her mother 14) _______________ (constantly tell) him
that he was of no use and should go get a job instead of being depressed at home. This 15) _______________

(make) him even more depressed. So here he was on a train to a holiday house for disabled people. When we
16) _______________ (reach) the place, we had to see the guy who was responsible for the volunteers. While
he 17) _______________ (tell) us what to do, what time we had to get up, what we could and couldn’t do, I 18)

_______________ (watch) Neil and his almost invisible reactions. He obviously 19) _______________ (not look)
happy and I 20) _______________ (know) that all he 21) _______________ (want) to do was to leave the place
running. But he 22) _______________ (stay) and so did I.

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