Discussion: In the same situation, what would you have done?

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Simple Past: Asking for Trouble

Read the story carefully, then complete the tasks that follow:

After performing a long and difficult operation, it must have been about two in the morning when I returned home. Realising, I had forgotten the house keys at the hospital. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the door-bell, but she was fast asleep, so I got a ladder from the shed in the garden, put it against the wall and began climbing towards the bedroom window. I was almost there when a sarcastic voice below said, ‘I don’t think the windows need cleaning at this time of the night.’ I looked down and nearly fell off the ladder when I saw a policeman. I immediately regretted answering in the way I did, but I said’ ‘I enjoy cleaning windows at night.’ ‘So do I,’ answered the policeman in the same tone. ‘Excuse me interrupting you. I hate to interrupt a man when he is busy working, but would you mind coming with me to the station?’. ‘Well, I would prefer to stay here,’ I said ‘You see, I have forgotten my keys.’ ‘Your what?’ the policeman said. ‘My keys.’ I shouted. Fortunately, the shouting woke up my wife who opened the widow just as the policeman had started to climb towards me.

Answer the following in full sentences:

1.What was the narrator’s job? __________________________________________

2. What did he forget? ________________________________________________

3. Where did he forget them? ___________________________________________

4.What did he decide to climb? _________________________________________

5. Who saw him? __________________________________________________

Circle (True) or (False). And then correct all mistakes:

1. It was late afternoon. True False