3 GRAMMAR narrative tenses, b Copy the highlighted verbs into the chart.

past perfect continuous past simple regular

a Read a newspaper story about an incident during a past simple irregular
recent flight. What happened? past continuous
Do you think the flight attendant should lose her job? past perfect
past perfect continuous

We’re going to crash! c In pairs, look at the sentences and circle the more logical
verb form. Be prepared to say why.
When the plane hit turbulence…
1 …the passengers screamed / were screaming.
2 …the passengers relaxed / were relaxing.
3 …they finished / had finished lunch.
4 …they had flown / had been flying for two hours.

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Hysterical the exercises.
flight attendant e In pairs or groups, try to complete the two sentences in
four different ways using the four narrative tenses.
causes panic
on transatlantic flight 1 The police stopped the driver because he…
2 I couldn’t sleep last night because…
Everything was going smoothly on Virgin Atlantic flight VS043
from London Gatwick to Las Vegas. The 451 passengers were
relaxing after lunch when the plane hit some turbulence over 4 P R O N U N C IATI O N irregular past forms
Greenland. There was no advance warning, so many passengers a Match the sentences 1–8 with the correct sounds A–H
were out of their seats or were not wearing seat belts when the according to the pronunciation of the vowel sound.
plane started dropping violently.
A B C D
Suddenly one of the flight attendants screamed , ‘We’re going
to crash!’ Panic immediately broke out. In the 30 minutes of
chaos, passengers desperately clung to their seats, as drinks
and magazines flew around the cabin. Amid the terror, the
flight attendant screamed every time the plane dropped.
E F G H
Businesswoman Angela Marshall was travelling with her
partner. ‘Until then the flight had been fine,’ she said
afterwards. ‘ I’d been reading my book and my partner had
been having a nap. But when the flight attendant started
screaming, I was totally convinced that we were about to die.’ 1 I thought he’d caught that flight. I saw him
Another passenger said, ‘It was unreal, like something from a checking in.
2 The hotel was built in 1950. The date was written
From Daily Mail

film. People started crying and being sick. That woman

shouldn’t be a flight attendant. After we landed she was joking above the door.
and laughing as if nothing had happened, but we all staggered 3 The company had become successful since it won
the prize for Best Airline.
off the plane in a state of shock.’
4 I flew to Mexico City. I knew the city very well.
5 She read for a while before she fell asleep. Then she
dreamt about her childhood.
Glossary 6 We’d flown from New York that day. We’d chosen a
turbulence sudden and violent changes in wind direction bad day to travel.
break (broke, broken) out pv start suddenly 7 I heard that they’d been hurt in the accident, but
cling (clung, clung) hold on tightly to sb / sth they weren’t.
nap a short sleep especially during the day 8 She said she’d paid for the train with money she’d
be about to be going to do something very soon
taken from my wallet.
stagger walk as if you are about to fall
b 2.5 Listen and check. Then practise saying the sentences.
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