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MIXED TENSES

-Hi Pete! (You have)______________ nice holidays?
-Yes, of course, Tim. I (be) __________ in Spain with some friends.
-Oh, sounds cool. How long (you stay) _________________ there?
-We (stay) ___________ there for 3 weeks. I (spend) __________ all the time on the beach. And believe me, the girls there (be) ______ really cute! One day two hotties came walking over to me... We (talk) _________ a bit, and it (not take) ___________ much time until the one girl, Linda, was my girlfriend...!

When he was young, Tom always (go) ________ to Italy with his parents in their holidays. They (live) ________ in a bungalow near the sea for two or three weeks every summer. Tom (be) _____ always fascinated by the sea, and he always (wish) ___________ he (can) _______ live in a place like that all year long. So when he (turn) ________ 18, he (decide) __________ to leave home and moved to a little house in Italy. Now Tom (be) _____ 23 years old. He (live) _______ _________ there (for/since) _______ five years already, and he (be) _____ very, very happy about his home.

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Moesha (live) __________ in Brooklyn in New York. Last holidays, her cousin Tyra from London (visit) ________ her for one week. It (be) ______ the scariest week in Tyra’s whole life. While she (sleep) ____________ one night, suddenly a loud noise (wake) __________ her up. She (look up) ________________ and (see) ___________ that in the room next door a light (be) ___________on . So she (want) ______________ to stand up and look what the matter (be) _____, but Moesha, who (sleep) ____________ in the same room, (whisper)_____________: Stay here and lay low, there is a burglar in the house. He has a gun...! Tyra (be) ________ shocked when she (hear) _________ that. The next day she immediately (leave) __________ New York again, and she (swear) _____________ she’d never go back there again.

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