B Complete the text with the past simple or the past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets.
In all mysteries, there is usually someone who knows what really happened. Our English teacher told
us about a particular class she 1
(have) when she first 2
(start) teaching
One hot summer day, when everybody wished they were at the beach, she 3
(teach)
phrasal verbs. She noticed one student 4
(chew) what must have been a whole packet
of gum. She 5
(tell) him to get rid of the gum, which he did immediately. He 6
(stand) up, throwing the gum out the window, and it went flying straight through the
open window of a flat opposite the school. The whole class 7
(go) silent. Honestly, she
told us that he couldn't have aimed it better if he had tried. After that, everyone 8
(suggest) where the gum 9
(land). One explanation was that the gum had stuck to the
TV screen. Then everyone wondered about the people who 10
(live) there. What in the
world would they think when they 11
(see) it? Those people would have been quite
puzzled when they 12
(find) the gum, no matter where it had ended up in their house.
Anyway, the case of the mysterious gum was certainly no mystery to the class or to our teacher.