Ex. 1. Complete the conversation. Put in the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs

Rachel: How was your job interview?

Vicky: Awful. I felt terribly nervous. …I’d been worrying.... (I / worry) about it all week. And I was tired because

(1).......................................................... (I / work) on my project the night before.

(2).......................................................... (I / not look) forward to the interview at all

Rachel: So what happened?

Vicky: The woman interviewing me was half an hour late because

(3)................................................................(she / deal) with an unexpected problem, she said.

(4)........................................................(I / wait) ages, and I'd got even more nervous.

Rachel: How did the interview go?

Vicky: Well, I tried to sound confident. (5).......................................................... (I / read) a book that said that's what you have to do in job interviews. But I don't know if I gave the right answers.

Ex. 2. Underline the correct tense.

1. I saw Jim this morning. He ran/was running for the bus.

2. Keri was angry. She had been waiting/was waiting for Sarah for two hours.

3. Andy was relieved to hear that he was passing/had passed the exam.

4. I was walking/had walked home when I saw Paul.

5. Brian learnt/had learnt how to spell his name at school today.

6. They hadn't visited/weren't visiting their grandparents for a long time.

7. I watched/was watching television when the telephone rang.

8. Jason had been thinking/had thought about his new car all day.

9. I bought the dress because I wanted/had wanted something special to wear to the party.

10. The little boy was crying because he had lost/was losing his mother.

11. Graham had been working/was working for the company for twenty years before he retired.

12. Pam opened/had opened the present and read the card.

13. Lucy wrote/had written a letter to her sister last night.

14. It had been raining/was raining all day and the roads were very wet.

15. Sue was smiling/had smiled as she was reading Mary's letter.

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Граматичний матеріал: Майбутній перфектно-тривалий час (Future Perfect Continuous)

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