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B. Complete the following passage by changing the words given in the bracket into the correct
simple past or past continuous form.

Last semester break I …………… (travel) to Belitung with my family. To my surprise, it

……………. (be) dreadful. Everything ………………. (not, run) as the plan. We ………….. (take)
a plane there. The sky ………… (get) darker and darker when we …………… (get) on board. The
plane ………………... (shake) terribly for the whole one hour flight. My parents ……………….

(not, experience) this horror since they ………………. (sleep) during the storm.
As soon as the plane ……………..(land) for a transit on Soekarno Hatta airport, I
…………… (wake) them up. When I ……………. (rush) to get off the plane, I accidently

…………… (bump) my knee on the hand rail. The carry-on bag on my hand …………… (fall)
down through the stair hitting other passengers who ………………(walk) down in front of me. One

of them, who is around her sixties, ……………. (injure) her leg badly. Not only did the bag hit her,
it also …………….. (cause) her a shock. She ……………….. (fall) sliding down the stair as other
passengers ……………….. (scream) in horror. When we ………………. (arrive) at the airport

clinic to get her treatment, the attendees ……………………… (have) their lunch break so we had
to wait. I ……..……… (feel) so sorry for my mother since she had to be patient as the lady

………………… (complain) endlessly. My father ………………. (scold) me for what happened
when at last one of the nurse ………………. (come). The treatment …………….. (take) a while
and we ended up missing our next flight to Belitung.

when vs while

The connectors of when and while are used to indicate same-time activities (synchronous).

When is followed by a clause with an While is followed by a clause with a

activity that (1) is a short interruption, or same-time (simultaneous) activity
(2) occurs at nearly the same time or and includes a verb expressing duration².
shortly after the first activity. A non- The while-clause often expresses a
progressive verb form is more commonly background activity to the focus-activity in

(but not always) used for activities of short the main clause.
duration¹
INTERRUPTION SAME TIME

I was stopping at the road side when a man While we were touring the museum, the
offered me some local souvenirs. curator was explaining the history of all the
When I was sleeping at my hotel room, the paintings we saw.

fire alarm rang. I was shopping for souvenirs with my
mother while my father was resting in the
car.

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