More recently I would like to thank all the teachers and students I met and who offered their thoughts on the previous edition. It was fun to meet you all and extremely helpful for me. | Exercises Unit 68 Choose from Box A and Box B to make sentences. Use an ing clause. B 1 -Kate was in the kitchen. 2 Diane was sitting in an armchair. 3 Sue opened rhe door carefully. 4 Sarah went out. 5 Linda was in London for two years. 6 Mary walked around the town. She was trying not to make a noise. She looked at the sights and took photographs. She said she would be back in an hour. She was reading a book. She worked as a tourist guide. 1 .Kate- was in the kdchen making co-f-fee. 2 Diane was sitting. 3 Sue. 4 . 5 . 6 . Make one sentence from two using an -ing clause. 1 Joe was playing football. He hurt his knee. 2 I was watching television. I fell asleep. I. 3 A friend of mine slipped and fell. He was getting off a bus. A friend of mine. 4 I was walking home in rhe rain. I got very wet. I. 5 Laura was driving ro work yesterday. She had an accident. 6 Two firefighters were overcome by smoke. They were trying to put out the fire. Make sentences beginning Having . . 1 She finished her work. Then she went .home. 2 We bought our tickets. Then we went into the theatre. 3 They had dinner and then they continued their journey. 4 After I d done the shopping I went for a cup of coffee. Make sentences beginning -ing or Not -ing like those in Section D . Sometimes you need to begin with Having done something . 1 I felt tired. So I went to bed early. .Feeling tired I went to bed eorUj. 2 I thought they might be hungry. So I offered them something to ear. 3 She is a foreigner. So she needs a visa to work in this country. 4 I didn t know his phone number. So I wasn t able to contact him. 5 Sarah has travelled a lor. So she knows a lot about other countries. 6 I wasn t able to speak the local language. So I had trouble communicating. We had spent nearly all our money. So we couldn t afford to stay at a hotel. 137 Unit 69 Countable and uncountable 1 A noun can be countable or uncountable Countable I eat a banana every day. 1 like bananas. Banana .
