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Put each verb in brackets into a suitable past verb form.
This time last year I (1) was cycling
(cycle) in the rain along a country
road in France with a friend of mine. We (2)
(decide to go
on a cycling holiday in Normandy. Neither of us 3)
(be) to
France before, but we (4)
(know some French from our time
at school and we (5) ....
manage) to brush up on the basics.
Now we 6)
(wonder if we (
(make )
the nght decision. We 8)
plan) our route carefully in
advanice, but we (9)
(forget one important thing, the
weather 10)
(rain) solidly since our arrival and that night
we 1
(end up) sleeping in the waiting room at a railway
station. Then the next morning as we (12)
(ride) down a
steep hull my bike (13)
....... (skid) on the wet road and I
fall oft). I (15)
Kicalise)
immediately that I 16)
.. (break my arm, and after a visit to
the leval hospital (17)
catch the next train to Calais for
the ferry home. Unfortunately my parents (18)
(not/expect
me home tor fortnight, and (19)
(go) away on holiday. So I
(20)
(spend) a miserable couple of weeks alone, reading
Teach your French".​