10th form "The Hurricane Was a Nightmare" Grammar

1. Joe Burton from Cayman describes a disaster experience: "This story ____ place when I was only eleven years old.

2. It's unbelievable, but those dreadful pictures of a tropical storm are still ____ if it all happened yesterday.

3. During that week we had to face ___ to the most powerful hurricane, Cayman had ever seen.

4. The fact that I was _____ a small boy increased the effects of this experience.

5. I can still hear the noise of the wind _____ on the taped windows that were trembling.

6. When I looked out, I was terrified as everything ____ around - litter, tree branches, papers, plastics.

7. But the nightmare was not that stage when we were just afraid without _____ other possibilities.

8. What the real disaster was we undersdood later. Actually, the hurricane ____ the island only once, but three times, each time causing more and more damage.

9. For some days after the hurricane the people of our place ____ to go out of the house.

10. All the roads were cut off, and we did not have water and telephone connection was also lost. Under those conditions, _____ task was the impossibility of keeping in touch with the rest of my family living around the island.

11. The feeling of presuming the death of your close friends and relatives ____ hard to endure.

12. We had lived like that for one horrible weekbefore everything _____ . For me, those seven days were a real nightmare.