fce grammar past tense narrative verbs

Write A, B, C, ... in the gap.

1 literary classic 2 science fiction

3 crime fiction 4 thriller

5 romance 6 horror

7 historical novel 8 fantasy

'Enemies? Everyone despised him. I can't think of a man with more enemies.' I sat up. I despised my father, but I didn't like the thought of other people hating him. I don't know why. I suppose because I felt that he must be some part of me. We shared blood, and genes. And we had once shared a life - if only for a very short time.

We were sitting in the cafe at the top of a department store in the centre of Madrid. Blanca de la Rosa sipped her coffee. I sipped mine. We were next to the window and below us I could see people going in and out of shops. Christmas shopping, perhaps? 1 It was a cold day in early November. The wind moved the clouds, but never enough to open up the sky. It was the kind of day I had never expected to see in Spain.

I rubbed my arms and said: 'But hating someone casually is different from wanting to kill them.' Blanca de la Rosa shrugged. 'I wouldn't know. I don't go in for such emotions.' Blanca de la Rosa was my father's secretary. Or had been, before he died. My father had run a business selling British art. 2 After all, he knew nothing about art.

When I was growing up, he had owned a sports shop Later, I heard he worked in the music business, as a booking agent or something like that. 3Since my teens, you see, I had been trying to forget about my father.

I was well on my way to achieving this when I got the phone call that afternoon in September. It was a Sunday and I was in a London pub with some friends. 4Then there was a click and a woman's voice, half-American, half-something else, said: 'Hello? I am Blanca de la Rosa. I am Graham Holt's secretary. I understand you are his daughter.' 'That's right,' I said. I was already shaking when she dropped her bombshell. Tm calling to tell you he was found dead last night,' she went on. 'He was shot.'

5 I was furious that my father had come back into my life. Then I called my mother, who I like to think I take after only slightly more than my father. She laughed and told me to stay away. 'I always knew someone would kill him one day,' she said. I only wish it had been me.'

I took her advice. I called Blanca de la Rosa and told her to do whatever she felt was appropriate with my father's belongings and money - to keep them or give them to charity if she wanted. And I tried to forget about my father all over again. 6It just wouldn't go away. In the end, I called Blanca de la Rosa again to ask her whether the police had arrested anyone for his murder.

'The police have more important things to do with their time,' she snorted. My father was a liar and a cheat. He had hurt me in countless ways. But someone had killed him and not been punished, and I had to know why. So I booked a flight to Madrid and arranged to meet Blanca de la Rosa.

You can write the numbers of the tense 1, 2, 3, 4 or write the tense completely.

1We were sitting in the cafe at the top of a department store in the centre of Madrid.

2 But someone had killed him and not been punished, and I had to know why.

3 I was already shaking when she dropped her bombshell.

4 Then I called my mother ... She laughed and told me to stay away.

5 Since my teens, I had been trying to forget about my father.

Write the number of sentence in the blank. write 1, 2, 3, 4,5.

a a series of actions or events following each other in chronological order?

b an event which occurred before the other past actions in the narrative?

c an action which continued until a specific point in the past?

d a situation which occurred over a period of time and which forms the background to other past actions in the narrative?

e an action which was in progress when another action occurred?

a I'd like you to hand in your homework of the class.

b We were going to catch a train but we decided it would be cheaper to drive.

c We've found a house we like we've been looking for nearly a year.

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