DAY We (begin) our trek at last. We are at about metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much.
I’m thrilled that we (pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests. DAY Yesterday a landslide (block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’.
Yaks (be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain. DAY We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They (play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed , metres.
Up here, it never (rain) and there are no trees. It (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty. DAY Yesterday we (go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at , metres. The thin air with less oxygen there (leave) us breathless.We (feel) that we couldn’t go any further.
We (drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness. DAY We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen filled our blood again and we seemed to (fly) instead of walking. DAY We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday.
It was exciting when we (fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we (spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
e. In the following passage, circle the verbs in simple present tense and underline the verbs in simple past. The first one has been done for you. i) Unless one is upright there is no use in being a charming fellow.
Sometimes it is better to be honest than attractive. These are the great truths of modern life which Shyam never realised. He never said an ill-natured word in his life. He was always polite and spoke softly to everybody.
ii) That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the long room. “Well, Alan, did you get the picture finished all right? ” he said, as he lit his cigarette. “Finished and framed, my boy!” answered Trevor, “and by-the-bye, you have made a conquest.
That old model you saw is quite devoted to you. I had to tell him all about you - who you are, where you live, what your income is, what prospects you have.” iii) "And now tell me how Laura is. The old model was quite interested in her." "You don’t mean to say you talked to him about her?" said Hughie. "Certainly I did.
He knows all about the relentless colonel, the lovely Laura, and the £ , ." "You -A-Prose-The Portrait of a - - :