1. make -made
2. repair -repaired
3. good -well
4. think -thought
5. respectful -respectfully
6. busy -busy
7. usual -usually
8. counted -counted
9. careful -carefully
10. hide -hid
11. absolute -absolutely
12. secret -secretly
13. save -saving
14. rainy -rainy (voor de dorst)
15. innkeeper son – innkeeper's son
16. pass -was passing
17. village’s mainstreet –village mainstr
18. carry -was carrying
19. Mondays laundry –Monday's laundry
20. whistle - whistling
21. cobblers’ workshop- cobbler’s w…
22. sudden -suddenly
23. catch -caught
24. strange -strange
25. lie -lay / was lying
26. move not -didn’t move / wasn’t ...
27. know not -didn’t know
28. mean -meant
29. go -went
30. quick -quickly
31. wrong -wrong
32. happen -has happened
33. cry -cried
34. bend -bent
35. close -closer
36. slow -slowly
37. lift -lifted
38. say -said
39. calm -calmly
40. Worry not -Don’t worry
41. dear -dear
42. lie -lain down
43. five minutes rest -five minutes’ rest
44. must be -must have been
45. enormous -enormously
46. immediate -immediately
47. fall -fell
48. exclaim -exclaimed
49. happy -happily
50. near -nearly
51. think -thought
52. have knock -had knocked
53. steal -stole / (had) stolen
54. terrible - terribly
55. precious -precious
56. saving -have been saving
57. long -long
AN ENGLISH CHRISTMAS TEST 97Zw
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Once upon a time in the days round Christmas in a small village in the Scottish Highlands there was a poor cobbler. In his tiny workshop he make and repair the shoes of all the villagers as good as he could. He was well-loved and everyone think respectful of him. At the end of a busy day he usual count the money he had earned. Then he careful hide it under the floorboards, so that absolute nobody would find out that he had secret been save money for a rainy day.
One day the innkeeper son pass along the village’s mainstreet. He carry Mondays laundry in a big bag over his shoulder and whistle a song. When passing the cobblers’ workshop his eyes were sudden catch by something strange. The cobbler lie face down on the floor and move not ! The boy know not what it mean and go in quick to see what was wrong.
“Oh master, what happen!” he cry. He bend down to have a close look. At that moment the cobbler slow lift his head and say calm: “Worry not, my dear Angus. I had just lie down on the floor to have a five minutes rest. I must be enormous tired, because I almost immediate fall asleep.”
“Oh thank goodness for that”, Angus exclaim happy. “I near think that someone have knock you over the head and steal the terrible precious gold you saving for so long!”
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