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Magical Mystery Tour of Bournemouth & the Isle of Purbeck
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 1. What _ _ _ _ _ _ pass?  | 
 Last week, Hamdan passed his examination  | 
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 in Computer Science. He decided to take  | 
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 his class on a Magical Mystery Tour.  | 
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 2. What _ _ _ _ _ steal?  | 
 So last Friday evening, he stole a bus from  | 
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 Churchill Square and everybody got in.  | 
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 Later that evening, the bus broke down  | 
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 3. What happened _ _ _ _evening?  | 
 just outside Bournemouth. Mohammed got  | 
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 out and fixed it. The students arrived in  | 
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 4. When _ _ in Bournemouth?  | 
 Bournemouth just after midnight and Paula  | 
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 soon found them a nice hotel. Next morning,  | 
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 Humaid & Mamdouh took everybody on a tour  | 
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 5. How long _ _ take?  | 
 of all the mosques in the town. The tour  | 
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 took about an hour, but when they returned  | 
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 to the hotel a lot of police met them.  | 
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 6. What _ _Giuseppe _ _Hamdan?  | 
 Giuseppe told Hamdan that he needed a good  | 
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 lawyer and offered to help him. Two hours  | 
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 later, the students were all free and the  | 
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 7. Why _ _ _ _ _happy?  | 
 police were all happy. Veronique took a  | 
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 lot of money from a secret bank account in  | 
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 Switzerland and Hamdan bought the bus.  | 
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 8. What_ _ they _ _ after they parked _?  | 
 They continued their journey to the wonderful  | 
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 island of Purbeck, 7 miles to the west of  | 
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 Bournemouth and parked the bus just outside  | 
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 9. Where_ _ _ _ _ _lunch?  | 
 Swanage. They saw the old steam railway and  | 
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 then walked along the cliffs to the village  | 
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 of Studland. They took lunch in the garden  | 
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 10. How many miles _ _ beach have?  | 
 of a pub and then walked along a lovely  | 
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 beach with 3 miles of golden sand. Shirley  | 
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 looked for interesting shells to make  | 
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 Write some more questions  | 
 furniture for one of her dolls' houses.  | 
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 using the correct form of  | 
 Then they had a barbecue on the beach but  | 
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 the Past Simple Tense.  | 
 they didn't make a fire. Kanako served them  | 
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 with fresh Sushi from the sea. Mamdouh felt  | 
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 11. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?  | 
 ill, but he found a good doctor's assistant.  | 
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 Later that evening, they returned to Swanage  | 
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 12. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?  | 
 and drove to Corfe Castle and then to the  | 
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 village of Wareham. There the bus broke down  | 
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 13. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?  | 
 for the second time just outside the railway  | 
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 station. Mohammed told them to give the  | 
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 14. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?  | 
 bus to the people of Wareham as a present  | 
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 from nine international students. They  | 
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 15. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?  | 
 all returned to Hove by train.  |