Контроль письма. 1 семестр. 8 клас.Prepare

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

On a cold January morning, Flight 1549 was taking off from a New York airport when it¹ _______(hit) some birds.

gap 1:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

The engines² _______(stop) almost immediately.

gap 2:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

Captain Sullenberger quickly realised that the plane³ _______(fall) very fast.

gap 3:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

There was only one place he could lend the plane: on the Hudson River in the middle of New York!

Steven Day is a photographer. That morning he⁴ _______(work) on his computer when someone passed his desk.

gap 4:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

"What´s that?" they asked, pointing to something on the river. Steven⁵ ________ (find) his camera.

gap 5:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

At first, he didn´t know what he⁶ _______(take) pictures of.

gap 6:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

"It⁷ _______(move) down the river, like a boat", he said.

gap 7:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

When he looked closely, he⁸ _______(see) it was a plane.

gap 8:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

People⁹ _______(stand) at its wings in the middle of the river!

gap 9:

Complete the story. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the verbs:

The next day Stephen´s photograph¹⁰ _______(appear) in newspapers and on websites all over the world.

gap 10:

Read the text "How I Met My Best Friend". Choose one word for each gap:

A few years ago we moved to a new city, so I had to change schools. On the first day at my new school, I was nervous. I find ¹_______hard to make new friends and hardly said a word to anyone for hours.

Read the text "How I Met My Best Friend". Choose one word for each gap:

²_______the morning break started, I went outside and stood on my own.

Read the text "How I Met My Best Friend". Choose one word for each gap:

Towards the end of break, a girl walked up to me. She introduced ³_______as Monica and started chatting.

Read the text "How I Met My Best Friend". Choose one word for each gap:

She was also quite new at the school and we soon discovered we had a⁴ _______ in common.

Read the text "How I Met My Best Friend". Choose one word for each gap:

Also, we lived just a⁵ _______minutes' walk from each other!

Read the text "How I Met My Best Friend". Choose one word for each gap:

Monica and I had been really good friends since that day. Naturally we sometimes argue⁶_______ everyone does, but we're very close.