Complete the text below using the most suitable form of the verbs given. One verb will be used twice.

Dear Nicola,

How are you? Thanks a lot for the photos - your sister has grown up so much that I (1)………..her if you hadn’t told me which one she was.

I’ve been really busy at college all day and working at the café most nights. I know I'd have more time to study if I (2)……….., but then I (3)_________________________ ………..enough money to go on the field trip next month. We're going to Sicily and we'll be able to go up Mt. Etna if it (4)………..in the meantime. If we’re lucky, we (5)………..time for some shopping and sunbathing in between completing our projects on the local geology. Our department is really good about organising trips like this. If I'd done geography (my first choice), I (6)………..anywhere this year. And if I didn’t have the trip to look forward to, it (7)………..a very long term, I can tell you.

What else? Well, Phil’s so-called surprise party was great fun. He (8)………..never

………..what we were up to, but we had to tell him because he was planning to go home for the weekend, so he (9)………..the whole thing!

Anyway, I'd better not waffle on anymore - I'll miss my next lecture if I (10)………..

writing now!

Love,

Gail