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Complete the lines of each dialogue, using a ‘future in the past’ form and an appropriate continuation, as in the example. 3.05 Listen and check.
0 ‘Look, the shoe shop has closed down.»Oh, that’s a pity. There was a pair of shoes in the window that I liked. I was going to buy them….’
1 ‘Hi, Karen. It’s Graham here.’ ‘Graham, I don’t believe it! You must be a mind reader!
1 .
2 ‘Where’s Dad?’ ‘He’s gone back to work. They had an emergency at the factory.’
‘Oh no! I’ve got some really tough maths homework and he .
3 ‘Ms Sandford? This is the police. We’re trying to trace Frank Simmonds. I gather he works for you.’ ‘Well, today was his first day. He
at nine
this morning, but he didn’t turn up.’
4 ‘I don’t think this ticket permits you to break your journey.’ ‘It must do. The clerk at the ticket office
. if I couldn’t stop in Exeter.’
5 ‘What are you doing here? Aren’t you supposed to be on holiday?’ ‘Yes, that’s right.
we .***
. yesterday, but the airline strike prevented us going.’
2 Complete the second sentence so it has a similar meaning to the first. Use the word in brackets, as in the example
0 I fully intended to call you yesterday but I completely forgot! (was)
I was going to call. you. yesterday but I completely forgot!
1 In 1995 I left university and travelled to Singapore and met Tom, who I married two years later. (would)
In 1995 I left university and travelled to Singapore, where I met the man
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . twO years later.
2 We didn’t want to reveal the designs so soon but we were forced into it. (weren’t)
We
the designs so soon but were forced into it.
3 It was expected that the shuttle would make a further voyage, but technical failure prevented it. (have)
The shuttle
. a further voyage, but technical failure
prevented it.
4 The government revised its intention to increase fuel duty today as the rise in oil prices was already causing problems. (due)
The duty on fuel .………………………………. by the government today, but it didn’t happen because of the problems caused by the rise in oil prices.
5 We bought the cottage twenty years ago and, amazingly, we’re still living in it! (living)
When we bought the cottage, we hardly imagined that in it twenty years later!
6 The fire alarm went off and stopped the play from even starting! (about)
The fire alarm went off when the play .
7 I was so late that I expected the ceremony to be over by the time I arrived. (finished)
I was so late I expected that . . . . . . . . . by the time I arrived.
‘We don’t think a holiday together is a good idea.’ ‘., really.’
A. Trying to set things clear
The history of this book is now quite complicated. So every time I try to tell it I don’t tell it right. And when finally I tell it right, I’m misunderstood. So the publication of this edition seemed like a good opportunity to clear up some facts about this book.
B. Too expensive for me
It started when I was traveling in Austria as a hitch hiker. I didn’t buy a book ‘Europe on Five Dollars a Day’, because I didn’t have as much money as that for travelling. So I’ve borrowed from someone a very old copy of the ‘Hitch Hiker’s Guide to Europe’ which suited me well.
C. The name of the book comes to me
After I spent a day in Innsbruck, I went out into the countryside and lay down in the field. The stars came out and I thought, it might be good if someone would write a ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ as well. That’s how the idea of this book was born.
D. The doubts about the project
Then I was addressed by someone from BBC with an idea of making the radio series on science fiction. And that’s when the idea of this book popped up again in my mind. I think that the BBC’s officials hesitated a lot about this project but they had little choice for it has been started already.
E. The recording process
When the script was ready, we started the recording. Sometimes we were working with the sound engineers for weeks to produce a single sound effect. Everyone complained that we are stealing their studio time and this was absolutely true. The budget of the series has grown up twice by that time.
F. Working for money
In the meantime I was also writing for other radio series and editing the scripts for TV series. Of course it is very nice to be the author of some radio program and tell your friends that you are on the radio, but on the other hand that doesn’t bring you a lot of money at once.
G. The history of success
The first episode went out on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 1978. But it seemed to pass unnoticed for there was no publicity, no discussion in magazines and newspapers. So all we were doing seemed to be pointless. But then the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was published in England in September 1979 and appeared on the Sunday Times best-seller list at number one and just stayed there. That’s how it has got to be popular.