Speakout Intermediate B1 Students' book

1 Read the text and find examples of...

 

1 the past simple he saw

 

2 the past continuous

 

3 the present perfect

 

4 the past perfect

 

5 a modal verb

 

6 a superlative

 

7 a relative clause

 

8 a passive

There have been some amazing coincidences throughout history, but this might be the best.

 

In 1900 King Umberto of Italy was dining in a restaurant when he saw that the owner looked exactly like him. The man, who was also called Umberto, was bom in Turin on the same day as the king and, like the king, married a woman called Margherita. Amazingly, their weddings had been on the same day. The king invited the restaurant owner to an athletics meeting the next day. As the king sat down, he was told that the other Umberto had died in a mysterious shooting accident. Just as the king heard this news, an anarchist shot him dead.