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Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple. Be a detective: read the text very carefully and find one detail which shows that Ms Jane Webb is lying. At 11:22 p.m. on January 7, 2007, Ms. Jane Webb called the Toronto police to report a suicide. At 11:34 a police car _______(stop) in front of her house, and two policemen ______(get) out of the car. Ms. Webb ______ (put) on a warm coat because it _______ (be) cold and she waited for them in front of the house. She ______ (take) them to the house across the street. Surprisingly, the door _____ (be) not closed. They entered the house and ______ (find) the dead man. There was a small hole above his right eye, and there was a gun on the floor next to his right hand. The policemen looked around but they ________ (not touch) anything. They then ______ (leave) the room and __________(tell) Ms. Webb that she _____ (be) a very important witness. They asked her to go to her house and wait for them. Inspector Greene and a team of experts arrived fifteen minutes later and the investigation __________(begin). It was almost 2 a.m. when Inspector Greene finally _________ (come) to speak to Ms. Webb. They _____ (sit) at the kitchen table, _______ (drink) a cup of coffee and she _____ (tell) him about the crime. `I was in this room when I ______ ( look) out the window. I ______(see) Mr James – he turned on the light, walked to his desk, _______ (take) his gun and shot himself in the head. Then I ________ (run) to his house, but all the doors and windows were closed so I _______ (take) a stone and ________ (break) a window on the first floor and I climbed in. Ms. Webb continued: ` I _____ (go) up the stairs to the study. I turned on the light and I _____(run) to the body, but there

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Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple; Be a detective: read the text very carefully and find one detail which shows that the story of Ms Jane Webb is not true

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Page 1: Detective Story

Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple. Be a detective: read the text very carefully and find one detail which shows that Ms Jane Webb is lying.

At 11:22 p.m. on January 7, 2007, Ms. Jane Webb called the Toronto police to report a suicide.  At 11:34 a police car _______(stop) in front of her house, and two policemen ______(get) out of the car.  Ms. Webb ______ (put) on a warm coat because it _______ (be) cold and she waited for them in front of the house. She ______ (take) them to the house across the street.

Surprisingly, the door _____ (be) not closed.  They entered the house and ______ (find) the dead man.  There was a small hole above his right eye, and there was a gun on the floor next to his right hand.

The policemen looked around but they ________ (not touch) anything.  They then ______ (leave) the room and __________(tell) Ms. Webb that she _____ (be) a very important witness. They asked her to go to her house and wait for them.

Inspector Greene and a team of experts arrived fifteen minutes later and the investigation __________(begin).

It was almost 2 a.m. when Inspector Greene finally _________ (come) to speak to Ms. Webb. They _____ (sit) at the kitchen table, _______ (drink) a cup of coffee and she _____ (tell) him about the crime.

`I was in this room when I ______ (look) out the window. I ______(see) Mr James – he turned on the light, walked to his desk,  _______ (take) his gun and shot himself in the head. Then I ________ (run) to his house, but all the doors and windows were closed so I _______ (take) a stone and ________ (break) a window on the first floor and I climbed in.

Ms. Webb continued:  ` I _____ (go) up the stairs to the study. I turned on the light and  I _____(run) to the body, but there was nothing I could do for him.  Then I _____ (leave) the house and called the police.

Now she ______ (begin) to tremble.  `I'm sorry,' she explained,  `Mr James was also my boss.  I work at his company as his accountant, and I know there was a reason for his suicide.  The company ____(go) bankrupt, and I feel responsible for this accident because I ______(give) him the bad news, just this morning.'

The inspector looked at her but there was no sympathy in his eyes. He _____ (say), in a very cold voice,  `You are going to have to come down to police headquarters with me.'