5. Complete the text opening the brackets and using the right form of the verb. A)What (0) is (be) a blog? A blog (1) … (be) a personal webpage and sometimes a journal. Blogging (2)…
(begin) in 1994 when a student, Justin Hall, (3)… (start) a personal blog on the Internet. He (4)….(keep) his
blog for eleven years. The word‘blog’ (5) …(appear) for the first time in 1999 and the Oxford English
Dictionary (6)… (include) the word in its pages in 2003. Blogging (7)… (change) since the early days.
Between 2000 and 2004, it (8) …(become) a favourite activity for teenagers. Since 2004, more and more adults
(9) … (start) blogs too. And now, people (10)…(write) about all sorts of things, including politics and
television.
B) A funny thing (o) happened (happen) while (1) … (fly) to London last summer. When I (2) … (get) on the
plane, I (3) (take off) my jacket and put it in the overhead locker. When the passenger next to me
(4) (sit) down, I was surprised to see that she (5) … (wear) the same jacket as me.
Anyway, the plane (6)… (land) and we went to pick up our bags at the luggage carousel. While I (7) …(wait)
for my bags, I (8)… (decide) to listen to some music. But when I (9) … (look) for my MP3 player in my jacket
pocket, it (10)… (not be) there. Then I realised I had the woman’s jacket - and she had mine!