sábado, 26 de diciembre de 2009

PREPOSITIONS Fill the gaps


Read the following story and complete the gaps with the words you are given.
NEVER LEAVE YOUR NAME. (Dangerous women driving).
had hit
on
hit
that
about
fast
to
left
after that
saw
asked for
parked
said
angrier
came back
who
went off
fast
later
One Saturday afternoon and old man, Mr Roberts, sat in the park in the centre of the town and talked to his friend, Mr Jones. They watched the people and talked __1__________ the life in town. There were a lot of cars _2________ the road and one young man parked his new red car near the two men and _3________ to the shops. After five minutes a big car came __4________ round the corner of the street and CRASH! –it _5_______ the red car.
“Oh no! Look at that new red car!” Mr Roberts said __6______ his friend.
“Yes,it is not too good,” Mr Jones answered.
The woman who __7_______ the car stopped and got out. She looked carefully at the red car and thought:” I´ll leave a letter on the front window...now, let me think,...” Then she looked round and _8_______ the two men in the park.
She walked across to them and _9_______ some paper and a pen. “I want to write a letter about the accident and leave my name and phone number”, she said. She then wrote something on the paper and _10______ it on the front window of the new red car. _11__________ she got into her car and drove away.
Ten minutes _12_______ the driver of the red car _13_____________ from the shops. He looked at this car and was very angry. Then he took the letter, read it and got even _14___________.
Mr Roberts walked over to him. “What´s the problem?”, he asked. “I saw the woman __15_________ was driving the car _16_________ hit you, she wrote her name and phone number on the paper”.
So the angry man showed him the woman´s letter. It _17_______: “Everybody thinks my name and phone number is on this paper but it isn´t”.
Key:
NEVER LEAVE YOUR NAME – KEY
1. about 2.on 3. went off 4.hit 5. to 6. had hit 7. saw 8. asked for 9. left 10. After that 11. later 12. came back 13. angrier 14. who 15. that 16. said

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