Complete the text with verbs in brackets

Five years ago my parents ……. (rent) a house in the countryside. The Friars family had lived there for ten years but Mr Friars ………. (find) a good job in another city.

The first day, when I …………… (enter) the house, I …………. (feel) strange but I …………. (think) it was because the house was new to me and I ………… (say) nothing to my family.

My sister Emily ……….. (complain) that she could hear strange noises at night. My mother ……… (say) that she ………. (leave) some parcels on the dinning table and they ……….. (disappear). My father ………. (not believe)us until one day he ………. (see) a young woman in old-fashioned black clothes.

Of course my parents ………….. (decide) to find another house for the family. My father said that probably the house was haunted and I am sure that it was. We …………. (buy) a house in the centre of town.

Answer the questions about the text:

1.- When did the Friars family buy the house?

2.- Who lived in the house before them?

3.- Why did they leave the house?

4.-What did the writer feel on the first day?

5.-Why didn't he say anything?

6.-What happened to his sister?

7.- What did the mother leave on the table?

8.-Did Mr Friars believe them?

9.-When did he change his mind?

10.- What did the young woman wear?

11.- What did the Friars do?

12.- Where did they buy the house?

Complete the sentences in Past Simple tense:

a) Paul McCartney ……….….. (get) married again.

b)Michael Jackson ………..… (not play) the guitar.

c) Miriam Lorna …………… (change) her name.

d) Madonna ………….. (study) ballet at the University of Michigan.

e) The woman …………….. (wear) black gloves.

f) Leonardo ……….. (dream) about his school trip.

g) You ……………. (not want) to come with us.

h) Elisa ………….. (prepare) a birthday party.

i) The two friends …………… (go) bowling.

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