Past Tenses Exercises

Read the story and fill in with the missing verbs from the box.drop - provide -travel - take - snatch - happen - lean Mon billet est tombé dans la mer! (My ticket fell in the sea)Careless, 17, and with very little money, I was leaning on the rails of the ship carrying me to France when a gust of wind snatched my ticket from the top of my open bag and dropped it in the sea. A wonderful ship's officer took pity on me and provided a handwritten letter explaining what had happened. With only the letter and the phrase "Mon billet est tombé dans la mer!", I travelled the French railways for three weeks to the south and home again.