Grammar in a text. Choose the correct tense (simple past or past perfect).
I(►go) went..... to Paris last spring for a job interview; I (1 not be) ............... there for five
years. I (2 arrive)................... the evening before the interview, and (3 decide) ................ to go
for a walk. I (4 spend) ............ a happy hour strolling round, thinking about the good times I
(5 have) ....
there as a student. As I was walking by the Seine, I suddenly
(6 see).
a familiar face - it was Nedjma, the woman I (7 share)... a flat with
when I was a student, and whose address I (8 lose)...
(9 not see)
me, so I (10 call)
........ after leaving Paris. I could tell she
..... her name and she (11 look) ......….......
As she (12 turn)
towards me, I (13 realise).
that she (14 have)
an ugly scar on the side of her face. She (15 see)
the shock in my eyes, and her hand
that she
up to touch the scar; she (17 explain)
(16 go)
(18 get)
it when she was a journalist reporting on a war in Africa.
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She (19 not be) ......
years (21 not pass)
(23 arrive)
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.... uncomfortable telling me this; we (20 feel)..
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as if we (22 say)
............. as if the
goodbye the week before. She
in Paris that morning, and she (24 have)....
a hospital appointment
the next day. The doctors (25 think) .....
that they could remove the scar, but she would have
to stay in Paris for several months. Both of us (26 have)
the idea at the same time: if 1
the job, we could share a flat again. And we could start by having a coffee while we
to tell one another everything that (29 happen)
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... to us
*****
(27 get)
(28 begin).
in the past five years.
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