Insert the correct prepositions and postpositions where necessary.

1. Sandra was bed. She waited the postman to arrive. While she lay there she was thinking / the application she had made the scholarship. Suddenly she got , put her dressing gown and went the bathroom.
While she was having a shower she heard the postman. He knocked / the door and her mother opened it. When Sandra entered the breakfast room, a letter was lying the table.

2. I'm a member a group who spend weekends looking footpaths, building walls and planting trees. We are not paid what we do but we enjoy it very much. You don't need any previous experience but it helps if you are fond gardening. The most attractive thing about it is that you meet / other people interested nature and preserving the countryside.

3. We were late as usual. My husband had insisted doing his packing himself, and when he discovered that he couldn't manage he'd asked me help the last moment. So we had an hour to get the airport. Luckily, there wasn't much traffic the road and we were able to get there just time.

4. Archeologists and historians are more and more worried the Italian city Venice, one the world's most important historical cities. Venice, built the seventeenth century the Doges of Venice, is visited more than one million people a year. But Venice's buildings are danger. Their foundations are shaken the vibrations passing ships. Many parts the city are often flooded and these floods cause damage too.
Worried residents and experts all over the world are looking ways to stop the damage and preserve Venice.

5. Unexpected guests are good you. The phone rings, the friends you haven't seen ages are arriving a few hours, and you realize horror that you haven't changed the sheets the spare bedrooms months, that all the dirty dishes have been the sink the weekend, and that you've been wearing the same frock three days.

6. Last year I went a trip which was an absolute disaster. I was going Berlin business when, accident, I got the wrong train. We were the way Brussels before I realized my mistake. the end I got Berlin twenty-four hours later than I had expected.

7. Last year my family went holiday Thailand. We went air; it was a very long journey but we were very well looked the plane all the stewardesses. We stayed a large hotel the outskirts of Bangkok. We were given a wonderful suite the top floor the hotel. The most enjoyable day I had was when we went a trip boat, down the river to the crocodile farm. We had a wonderful holiday.

8. If you are going a shopping centre, make sure you have already decided which shops you want to visit. This will help to cut on the time you have to spend your shopping trip as well as keeping you wandering around window shopping. If possible try to do your shopping. weekdays, or it you have to do it the weekend, go early the morning to avoid the crowds.