B. Complete the text below with the Past Simple Past Progressive Past Perfect Simple or Past Perfect Progressive of the
verbs in brackets
Fishing in a... coracle
Last summer, 1 (1)
(stay) at a friend's house
in a pretty village in Wales. One morning, while
1(2)
(have) breakfast, my friend
(3)
(tell me that his cousins
(go) fishing in a coracle. As
I(5)
(not hear) of a corade before, he
(6)
(explain) to me what it is. A coracle is
a circular boat which Welsh people commonly
(use) from the time of the Romans until
the 1970s. In those days, coracles (8)
(carry) people or things up and down the rivers but, nowadays, coracles are used for fishing.
We (9)
(decide) to go down to the river and have a look for ourselves. We (10)
(walk) for about an hour when we finally (11)
(spot) my friend's cousins sitting in separate boats. As
they (12)
(fish) all morning, they (13)
(catch) quite a few fish. I was really curious to
see how they do it. (14)
(notice) that with one hand they (15)
(hold) a net while with the other hand they (16)
(control) their boats. Suddenly, a fish
(17)
(get) caught in their net. So each of them (18)
(pull) in his end of the net
until the boats (19)
(touch) and then, as if by magic, they (20)
(lift) the fish
out of the net. The whole scene was amazing!
