Fill in Past Simple or Past Perfect

1) When father’s birthday____________(come), Nora

_______________(already make) a present for him.
2) Yesterday by 7 o’clock Luke _________________
(bake) a delicious cake.
3) I _________________(finish) reading the book by
the end of the week.
4) Lola and Molly ________________(do) the dishes,
when their friends _________________(drop) in.
5) Why didn’t you want to go to the cinema? – I
_____________(already see) the film.
6) Edward _______________(have) a snack before he
____________(go) home.
7) Mila_____________(feel) better after she ______
___________(take) some medicines.
8) I______________(look) out of the window and ____
_______________(find out) that somebody ________
_____________(steal) my bike.
9) I ________________(can not) speak to the boss,
because he______________(already go) away.
10) The hotel room was quite dirty. The chambermaid
______________(not clean) it for a long time.
11) She_______________(show) me the dress, she
__________________(buy) the day before yesterday.
12) Before he ____________(go) into the shop,
somebody ______________(call) him by his name.
13) By the time he _________(be) 65, he __________
_______________(write) many good books.
14) The teacher __________________(understand)
that Mira_____________________(not learn) the
poem by heart.
15) His watch ________________(stop) because he
_________________(not wind) them.
16) Vivian _____________(be) afraid to fly, because
she _________________(never fly) before.
17) When I_____________(phone) Martha, she _____
___________(already know) the news.
18) When Greg ______________(find) his ticket in the
end, the train _______________(already leave).
19) I _____________(miss) the bus because I_______
_____________(meet) my old friend.
Match the sentences to the pictures