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Unit 7: The Titanic
Past simple and past continuous

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Session 5

Listen to the next episode of our drama, The Race. Phil and Passepartout were sleeping like babies when suddenly they heard a loud, crunching noise. What was it and where are they now? After that, test your knowledge of past simple and continuous in our Weekly Quiz.

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Drama

The Race: Episode 7 - Phil's audio diary

Phil and Passepartout were sleeping like babies when suddenly they heard a loud, crunching noise. What was it and where are they now? They're off to find out what's happened but someone very important is missing.

You can hear a summary of what happens here but if you don't want to know what happens, listen to the whole of episode 7 first on the next page.

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Dear Diary, what a day we've had! We were sleeping like babies when suddenly we heard a loud, crunching noise. We were washed up on a beach - you could say we were shipwrecked - and Sophia had disappeared.

I helped Passepartout fix a hole in our yacht and we set sail again. A parrot came onto our yacht and we decided to keep it - we needed to find a name for it.

Luckily, we found Sophia. She fell off the yacht while she was sleeping. When we found her, she was sitting on an old shipping container in the middle of the ocean, waiting to be rescued. Now we're all back together and heading for Papua New Guinea.

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You can download Phil's audio diary on the Unit 7 Downloads page.

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