Complete the sentences with the Past Perfect Simple or Past Perfect Continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Use the continuous form if possible. (5 points)
1 I played at the charity concert yesterday. I had been practising (practise) for ages.
2 I knew Sam had volunteered (volunteer) in Africa a few years ago, so I asked him about the experience.
3 John had promised (promise) to phone me many times, but he always forgot.
4 Kate offered to help me because I had been trying (try) to answer the question for ages.
5 I saw some boys in the park. They had been playing (play) football for some time.
2 Complete the text with the correct past form of the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous or used to/would. (10 points)
When I was a child, we 0used to go/would go to Scotland for the summer holidays. The journey there by car always 1took (take) about seven hours, so we 2 were leaving (leave) early in the morning and stop for lunch on the way. One year, it 3 had got (get) near lunchtime so we 4would decide (decide) to stop for lunch in a little village near the motorway. My mother 5did not pack (not pack) a picnic that year because she 6was working (work) very hard in the few weeks before we left. Imagine our surprise when we 7was walking (walk) into the village pub and saw our neighbours from home! They 8had stayed (stay) in Scotland and were on their way home! We 9 had had (have) lunch together and then 10had continued (continue) our journeys in opposite directions.…
