Share Present Perfect or Past Simple?
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“What’s wrong, Jason?” “I (LOSE) my key and I can’t get into my house.”
HAVE LOST
“Hey, look what I (CATCH)!” a man sitting several metres upstream proudly showed us his bag. There was a large fish in it.
HAVE CAUGHT
“What (HAPPEN)?” Jim sounded sleepy.
HAS HAPPENED
“Oh, no! I (LEAVE) all my pens at home.” She turned to Jenny: “Have you got a spare pen?”
HAVE LEFT
“I (BUY) special sunglasses for skiing,” Linda boasted to her father. “Have a look! Nice, aren’t they?”
HAVE BOUGHT
Mrs Pitt looked at him and said in a flat voice: “You are late again, Paul. What (HAPPEN)?” Paul was not ready with an answer.
HAS HAPPENED
“Yes, I was. I got a job of a waiter in his restaurant. But I (LOSE) that job already. They said I was rude to a client.”
HAVE LOST
When Emma told her friend, Lucy Pitt, about the new job, Lucy said: “I’m very happy that you (FIND) a good job. But I also feel very sad about it because you’ll go to the city and will forget about your friends.”
HAVE FOUND
It's very different now. Stonehenge (BECOME) more crowded than it was.
HAS BECOME
But not everyone was happy! The boys said that it (BE) a waste of time.
WAS
Veronica loved autumn. It was her favourite season. There were many good things about it. She loved the smells, the changing leaves, and the cool breezes. There (BE) also apple pies, apple doughnuts and pumpkin pies.
WERE
“Good job,” Dad (SAY) and everyone became quiet again.
SAID
Suddenly I (UNDERSTAND) - the book had gone! I had left it on the table but it wasn’t there any more.
UNDERSTOOD
Michael could not imagine his life without computers. His parents (BUY) him his first computer at the age of seven.
BOUGHT
“And how did you chat or send your e-mails without computers?” he asked his mother. She smiled: “We (NOT SEND) each other e-mails. And there were no networks.”
DID NOT SEND
Kitty lived next door to me and we’d been friends since childhood. We studied at the same school and (WALK) there together.
WALKED
