Participles as adjectives: -ed/-ing adjectives

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Exercise 1

Exercise 1

Choose the correct options to complete the text.

It was Christmas day again and my two sons were at the prospect of unwrapping all the boxes that lay around the Christmas tree. I was about giving them their presents, but also a bit because I didn’t want to them again. There’s nothing more than a child with a present in their hands.
That’s what had happened the year before. When my elder son opened his present I was to see how he was with his new toy. It was . But now it would be different, because I knew exactly what they really wanted. I had swallowed my pride and called my ex-wife to ask about what our children really wanted.
When they were unwrapping the presents, I was concentrating on their expressions, and it was so to see the joy in their eyes! They were totally to see they were the new owners of an X-box with countless games. It was a scene. And I was so to see that this year I hadn’t failed them that I forgot about how much the idea of video games me.