Maybe one of you has heard of a man named Till sleeps in a beehive Till Eulenspiegel Fill in: past simple or past continuous He was quite a joker and had a lot of fun playing tricks on his fellow One day Till Eulenspiegel ……… (go) to a men Mostly he used their fun fair in his town There ………… (be) own stupidity, even if people many people in the streets They …………… did not really wanted to admit that He used to take (celebrate), ………… (dance) and ………… (have) a lot of phrases literally fun Till Eulenspiegel ……… … (enjoy) that day Around midnight, he ………… (be) so tired that he …….…… (look) for a place to sleep In a meadow near the town he ………… (find) it There a beekeeper ………… (have) his beehives One of the hives ………… (be) empty and Till ……… … (decide) to sleep in it He ………… (climb) into it and ………… (fall) asleep immediately Till Eulenspiegel Till ………… (smile) because he ………… ……… … (sleep) (have) an idea He ………… (bend) out of peacefully and ……….……… the basket and ………… (pull) the thief´s (snore) gently in his hair who ………… (go) in front "Ouch, let it beehive when two dark men ……… … … be," the thief ………… (say) and ………… (crawl) across the meadow They ………… (look) back to the other thief (be) thieves who ………… (want) to use "I've done nothing," the other one ………… the darkness of the night to steal a (say) And it ………… (be) true But no one beehive And then they ………… (want) to had discovered Till Eulenspiegel Then Till sell it for much money They …… …… ………… (pull) the thief´s hair who ………… (look) for the biggest and heaviest (go) in the back And so it ………… (go) beehive and ………… (put) it on their back and forth After a while the two shoulders But it ………… (be) the beehive ………… (put) down the beehive and in which Till ……… …… (sleep) The ………… (start) quarrelling They ………… thieves ………… (walk) away quickly Till (fight) quite wildly and ………… (forget) ………… (feel) the movement and ………… about the beehive (wake) up Who had disturbed his And Till? He …… …… (laugh) and beautiful dreams? He ………… (look) out ………… (creep) out from his of the beehive and ………… (see) the two hiding place and ………… (go) men He ………… (get) very angry out into the world http://www.labbe.de/lesekorb/index.asp?themakatid=16&themaid=97&titelid=860 (translated and adapted) KEY—Till sleeps in a beehive One day Till Eulenspiegel went to a fun fair in his town There were many people in the streets They were celebrating, dancing and having a lot of fun Till Eulenspiegel was enjoying that day Around midnight, he was so tired that he was looking for a place to sleep In a meadow near the town he found it There a beekeeper had his beehives One of the hives was empty and Till decided to sleep in it He climbed into it and fell asleep immediately Till Eulenspiegel was sleeping peacefully Till smiled because he had an idea He and was snoring gently in his beehive when bent out of the basket and pulled the two dark men were crawling across the thief´s hair who went in front "Ouch, let meadow it be," the thief said and looked back to They were thieves who wanted to use the the other thief darkness of the night to steal a beehive "I've done nothing," the other one said And then they wanted to sell it for much And it was true But no one had money They looked for the biggest and discovered Till Eulenspiegel Then Till heaviest beehive and put it on their pulled the thief´s hair who went in the shoulders But it was the beehive in which back And so it went back and forth Till was sleeping The thieves walked away After a while the two put down the quickly Till felt the movement and woke up beehive and started quarrelling They Who had disturbed his beautiful dreams? were fighting quite wildly and forgot He looked out of the beehive and saw the about the beehive two men He got very angry And Till? He was laughing and crept out from his hiding place and went out into the world