Step 3

"Please don't come round at 9am this Sunday as I will __________ " I told Jim, yet he didn't seem to understand or even listen to me, and, just as I thought, at 9am, he rang the doorbell until I was forced to get up and let him into my home. (be sleeping).

Once inside, Jim began complaining about his work and, in particular, about a colleague he detested, Sheila, I have known for some time and I knew she ___________ in the office on Friday because she had left for the UK the day before, so I didn't understand why he urgently wanted to talk about her. (couldn't have been).

Consequently, I tried to make him change the subject, so we started talking about football. ____________ our favourite team lost, we were generally both happy with the way they played. (although).

We both agreed that more was needed from the board to improve the team we currently have because it seemed like the players were ___________ tired at this stage of the season. (so).

However, my friend went back to complain once again about the salaries football players get these day, but I soon stopped him in his tracks. I remind him about how we didn't like to study when we were at school and this should be one of our biggest regrets - in fact - if we studied more, we ____________ had better salaries, too. (would).