Question

COMPLETE LOS ESPACIOS VACIOS CON PASADO SIMPLE O PRESENTE PERFECTO
AYUDA POR FAVOR

It __________ (have /be) 12 years since I _________ (move) to Spain.

I first _________ (come) on vacation with my dad, in August 2004. We ________

(be) in France for a week, and Spain for a week.

At the end of August, we ________ (be) in Granada, and I ______ (meet) a girl.

She _______ (be/ negative sentence) Spanish, but she _______ (live) in

Madrid.

She _______ (be) a student. And I _____ (be) very young, 21 years old, actually.

I _______ (go) back to Arizona, but suddenly my life wasn’t working out. Soon I

_________ (find) myself with no job, no house and no girlfriend…

And all I could think about _____ (be) that girl back in Madrid.

So I _________(call) her. And ________ (offer) to come and visit.

She ______ (say) it sounded like a good idea, so I ______ (come).

I _________ (arrive) on an overnight flight from Philadelphia, on October 21st,

2004, and _______ (call) her from the airport.

She ______ (tell) me to meet her in a plaza in Alto de Extremadura (not the most

exciting part of Madrid).

It ______ (be) a cold and rainy morning in October, just like this one, when I

_______ (get) off the metro and __________ (start) my new life. I ______ (sit) in

the plaza waiting, in the rain, with the distinct feeling I was making a huge

mistake.

What _________ (happen) after that? Well, I ________ (find) a room to rent in

Lucero (near Alto de Extremadura, and even less glamorous).

I _________(study) to be a teacher. I _______ (get) a job. The girl ______ (go)

back to her country. I ________ (make) some other friends. And for some reason

I ________. (stay)
I _______ (get) another girlfriend, actually a series of girlfriends; and ______

(have) a series of teaching jobs, too. Some of them _______ (be) bad, some of

them ________ (be) better. But I (almost) always _________ (enjoy) teaching.

And I ____________ (have/ like) writing. During my first year in Madrid, I

_________ (write) a novel.

It ______________ (be/ never/ publish).

Thank GOD.
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Answer 1

It was 12 years since I have moved to Spain.

I first came on vacation with my dad, in August 2004. We _were_______

(be) in France for a week, and Spain for a week.

At the end of August, we ____were____ (be) in Granada, and I ___met___ (meet) a girl.

She ___was not____ (be/ negative sentence) Spanish, but she __lived___ (live) in

Madrid.

She _was______ (be) a student. And I ___was__ (be) very young, 21 years old, actually.

I ___went____ (go) back to Arizona, but suddenly my life wasn’t working out. Soon I

__found_______ (find) myself with no job, no house and no girlfriend…

And all I could think about __was___ (be) that girl back in Madrid.

So I ___called______(call) her. And ___offerd_____ (offer) to come and visit.

She ___said___ (say) it sounded like a good idea, so I _came_____ (come).

I __arrived_______ (arrive) on an overnight flight from Philadelphia, on October 21st,

2004, and __called_____ (call) her from the airport.

She ___told___ (tell) me to meet her in a plaza in Alto de Extremadura (not the most

exciting part of Madrid).

It __was____ (be) a cold and rainy morning in October, just like this one, when I

_got______ (get) off the metro and ______started____ (start) my new life. I __sat____ (sit) in

the plaza waiting, in the rain, with the distinct feeling I was making a huge

mistake.

What _____happened____ (happen) after that? Well, I _found_______ (find) a room to rent in

Lucero (near Alto de Extremadura, and even less glamorous).

I ___studied______(study) to be a teacher. I ____got___ (get) a job. The girl __went____ (go)

back to her country. I ___made_____ (make) some other friends. And for some reason

I stayed. (stay)

I __got_____ (get) another girlfriend, actually a series of girlfriends; and _had_____

(have) a series of teaching jobs, too. Some of them ____were___ (be) bad, some of

them ___were_____ (be) better. But I (almost) always _____enjoyed____ (enjoy) teaching.

And I ____have liked________ (have/ like) writing. During my first year in Madrid, I

___wrote______ (write) a novel.

It _____was never published_________ (be/ never/ publish).

Thank GOD.