Past Perfect - or other tenses?

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

   can't      closing      covered      had      had been      had left      hadn't gone      heard      rang      replied      shouted      've already poured      was having      was lying      was wearing   


This morning I in bed just before getting up. I a really wonderful dream about flying over beautiful seas and mountains.

Suddenly the alarm clock , shaking me out of my dream. I groaned and my head with the sheet. "Five minutes more!" I muttered, before turning over and my eyes again. It seemed as if only one minute later there was a banging noise at the door.

"Get up! Get up!" I my mother's voice outside the door.

With a sinking heart, I remembered I a load of essays to do. I also realized that today was the longest day of the week. I would be stuck in that college until 7:30pm. And then I remembered I would have to take a taxi, because I my car in for a service.

I closed my eyes again and mumbled "I'm sick!"

I wasn't really sick, but I was very tired. I out with friends and I to bed until 3 am.

My mother opened the door. She her no-nonsense look on her face.

"What's wrong with you this time?" she asked.

"I'm sick!" I . "I can't go to school today!"

"There's nothing wrong with you!" she said, unsympathetically. "Get up now and get dressed. And hurry up, I your coffee. It will be cold."

"I can't!" I said. "I just face it today! I don't want to go to school!"

"You have to!" she . "You're the teacher!"