XII. Read about Fiona Campbell’s journey. Fill in the gaps with the Past Simple of the verbs in brackets. Fiona Campbell was the first woman to walk around the world. She (1. start) started her journey in the UK in 1983 and then in 1985 she (2. walk) walked across the USA. In 1988 she (3. go) went from Sydney to Perth in only 95 days. On April 2nd 1991, Fiona (4. leave) left Cape Town in South Africa. She (5. arrive) arrived in Morocco 29 months later – a journey of 10,000 miles. Then she (6. walk) walked across Europe and (7. finish) finished her journey in October 1994. She (8. travel) travelled 19,586 miles and (9. raise) raised £120,000 for charity. Fiona also (10. write) wrote a book about her journey called The Whole Story.

XIII. Complete the text. Use the past simple of the verbs in brackets.

      Last year my family (1. go) went to Greece on holiday. We (2. meet) met a lot of new people and I (3. take) take a lot of photographs. We (4. stay) stayed in a good hotel near the sea, and there (5. be) was a lot of things to do there. Unfortunately, on the first day I (6. have) had some problems. I (7. hit) hit my head on the bathroom door and then I (8. cut) cut my finger, so for two days I (9. read) read a lot of books and (10. play) played games on my laptop. After that I (11. do) did a lot of things – swimming, sailing, and so on. When we (12. leave) left,I (13. be) was really tired! I (14. tell) told Dad that I needed another holiday!

1.started

2.walking

3.went

4.left

5.arrived

6.walk

7.finished

8.travelling

9.rasing

10.wrote

XIII

1.went

2.met

3.took

4.stayed

5.are

6.have

7.hitted

8.cut

9.have read

10.plays

11.do

12.left

13.was

14.told