F Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Past Perfect Simple of the verbs in brackets.
1 The skier (return) to the hotel before the
storm started.
2 Shelley (never / play) golf in her life, but she realised
she was very good at it.
3
(they / already / call) a taxi by the time you
arrived?
4 Until 2008, we (never / be) sailing.
5
-(work) as an instructor for ages and was a bit bored
with my job.
6 Dean and Fran (walk) in the Alps once and really
enjoyed themselves.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.