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Magical Mystery Tour of Bournemouth & the Isle of Purbeck

Question Prompts: ask and answer:

 

1. What _ _ _ _ _ _ pass?

Last week, Hamdan passed his examination

 

in Computer Science. He decided to take

 

his class on a Magical Mystery Tour.

2. What _ _ _ _ _ steal?

So last Friday evening, he stole a bus from

 

Churchill Square and everybody got in.

 

Later that evening, the bus broke down

3. What happened _ _ _ _evening?

just outside Bournemouth. Mohammed got

 

out and fixed it. The students arrived in

4. When _ _ in Bournemouth?

Bournemouth just after midnight and Paula

soon found them a nice hotel. Next morning,

 

Humaid & Mamdouh took everybody on a tour

5. How long _ _ take?

of all the mosques in the town. The tour

took about an hour, but when they returned

 

to the hotel a lot of police met them.

6. What _ _Giuseppe _ _Hamdan?

Giuseppe told Hamdan that he needed a good

lawyer and offered to help him. Two hours

 

later, the students were all free and the

7. Why _ _ _ _ _happy?

police were all happy. Veronique took a

lot of money from a secret bank account in

 

Switzerland and Hamdan bought the bus.

8. What_ _ they _ _ after they parked _?

They continued their journey to the wonderful

island of Purbeck, 7 miles to the west of

 

Bournemouth and parked the bus just outside

9. Where_ _ _ _ _ _lunch?

Swanage. They saw the old steam railway and

 

then walked along the cliffs to the village

 

of Studland. They took lunch in the garden

10. How many miles _ _ beach have?

of a pub and then walked along a lovely

beach with 3 miles of golden sand. Shirley

 

looked for interesting shells to make

Write some more questions

furniture for one of her dolls' houses.

using the correct form of

Then they had a barbecue on the beach but

the Past Simple Tense.

they didn't make a fire. Kanako served them

 

with fresh Sushi from the sea. Mamdouh felt

11. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?

ill, but he found a good doctor's assistant.

 

Later that evening, they returned to Swanage

12. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?

and drove to Corfe Castle and then to the

 

village of Wareham. There the bus broke down

13. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?

for the second time just outside the railway

 

station. Mohammed told them to give the

14. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?

bus to the people of Wareham as a present

 

from nine international students. They

15. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?

all returned to Hove by train.