TEXT 6. Past Simple / Past Perfect The holiday was a complete disaster! On the way to the airport, we _1. (miss) our train, so when we _2. (get) there, the plane _3. (leave)! We _4. (manage) to catch a later flight, but we had to wait a long time. I was really nervous, because I _5. (never /fly) before! When we eventually _6. (get) to our hotel, we _7. (find) that they _8. (give) our room to another couple. Anyway, they found us a room at another hotel, and we stayed there. When I opened my suitcase, though, I _9. (realise) that it _10. (not be) mine. I _11. (pick up) the wrong suitcase at the airport! So, I had to use my credit card and buy some clothes. The rest of the holiday was quite nice, but the journey back was horrible. We missed our flight again because when we _12. (get) to the airport, Sophie _13. (not /can) find her passport! She _14. (leave) it at the hotel. So, we had to go back to the hotel, find the passport, and get another flight. If all of that wasn’t enough, when we eventually _15. (get) home, I _16. (realise) I _17. (lose) my key. I need another holiday to get over that one!

1. Spain and Portugal are considered to be good places for summer vacations.
2. Christmas is known to be the most popular holiday in Britain and the USA
3. Patriotic symbols are thought to be very important for national celebrations.
4.Thanksgiving Day is said to unite many American families for a thanksgiving dinner.
5. The British Queen is supposed to be the most important symbol of the country.
6. British football is considered to be the best.
7. Americans are said to have more national celebrations that any other nation

I am lying.I am doing homework.It is raining right now.I am going to gym at the moment.

Вот список глаголов(но существуют и исключения), которые не используются в continuous tenses:

want
like
belong
know
suppose
need
love
see
realize
mean
forget
prefer
hate
hear
believe
understand
remember
seem
have (если в значении ‘владеть’)
think (в значении ‘полагать’)

Некоторые из этих глаголов могут употребляться в Сontinuous tenses, если они означают:

to think – “обдумывать”
to see – “встречаться”
to have – в таких выражениях, как
to have breakfast, to have dinner, to have a good time,
to have supper, to have troubles, и т.д.