Open the brackets using the past simple and past progressive tenses: 1. i entered the office and (to look) around. most people (to work) at their desks, but jane (to stare) out of the window and (to pretend) to write something at the same time. 2. when i (to live) in london, i (to walk) through the park every day. 3. i am sorry, i (not to realize) that you were sitting here. 4. everyone was having a good time, although not many people (to dance). 5. this time last year i (to cycle) in the rain along a country road in france with a friend of mine. we (to decide) to go on a cycling holiday in normandy.

Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." and indeed there will be time to wonder, “do i dare? ” and, “do i dare? ” time to turn back and descend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair— [they will say: “how his hair is growing thin! ”] my morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, my necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin— [they will say: “but how his arms and legs are thin! ”] do i dare disturb the universe? in a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. which lines indicate that the speaker is concerned about what others think of him?

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?

Which of the following is an example of a periodical?