Grammar
Exercise 1
1 played
2 went
3 arrived
4 discovered
5 didn’t start
6 was waiting
7 didn’t have
8 began
9 was running
10 fell
11 hurt
12 lost
Vocabulary
Exercise 2
1 ashamed of
2 irritated with/at/by
3 satisfied with
4 confused about
5 relieved about
6 scared of
7 bored with/of
Exercise 3
1 all of a sudden
2 As soon as
3 Within seconds
4 For the next few minutes
5 Meanwhile
6 Eventually
7 then
8 before
Use of English
Exercise 4
1 A
2 C
3 A
4 C
5 B
Exercise 5
1 B
2 B
3 A
4 C
5 B
6 A
Writing: An informal letter narrating an event
Exercise 6
1 The writer should apologise for the lack of recent contact and explain the reason.
2 present perfect, past simple, past continuous, past perfect
3 Possible answers: amused, surprised/amazed/astonished, delighted, excited, fascinated, interested, pleased, satisfied, thrilled
Exercise 7
The man on the cover of the game was the footballer in the
department store.
Exercise 8
1a past simple and past continuous: I was in a department store in town. It was unusually busy. I was browsing through computer games and I was looking at a football game
1b `past simple: When people started screaming, I got scared, but a few seconds later I saw someone I recognised behind them
1c past simple: I was looking at a football game when suddenly I noticed some tough men in suits walking towards me.
1d past perfect: I was even more pleased after I’d managed to get his autograph and photo.
2a sooner
2b a few seconds later