Tag: simple past

We all meet difficult situations here and there. Sometimes it’s work, family, friends and in this modern world, it’s often money-related as well. But difficult situations don’t need to be all bad. We can use them to practice our simple past verbs and learn new vocabulary! Take a look at this story below about a difficult situation and then try our quizzes below to test your understanding of the story and knowledge of the words! 

“Yesterday I came home to find something very unpleasant in my house. Apart from the usual mess (because I’m not a tidy person!) I came home to find tons of gigantic cockroaches crawling around my front room!

I don’t know how they arrived, because I certainly didn’t let them in! But when I looked through the door, I saw maybe 10 or 20 of them all crawling around my floor, crawling under the sofa, the chairs and even the rug! Even if I’m a messy person, this was a new level of disgusting. They were huge and some were the size of my little finger!

So, I quickly remembered that my friend Harry, a couple of weeks ago, had had a similar problem with cockroaches. Luckily for him, he’s very rich, and he bought lots of supplies to get rid of the pests. He told me last week that he sprayed his whole house with pest spray and finally got rid of the cockroaches. So I took my mobile and phoned him straight away.

I asked Harry if I could borrow his pest supplies, because now I had the same problem, but to my surprise, Harry said no! He said he didn’t want to lend me his supplies because they cost a lot of money and maybe he would need them for the future. I was furious! I am not a rich person and I can’t afford pest supplies like Harry. He will always be able to afford more supplies, so I thought it was very insensitive. It seemed the pest supplies meant more to him than our friendship.

So in the end, I lost a good friend. But it’s not all bad, I made lots of new friends soon after… 10 or 20 of them in fact!”