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Last holiday, I went to my grandfather’s hometown in East Java. My grandfather’s house ___ in Malang.

In 2015 my brother ___ 17, so he ___ 24 now.

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I ___ happy with Surabaya now. Years ago, it ___ very dirty and messy.

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This time 3 years ago my big family and I ___ in Bogor visited my grandfather and my uncle’s houses.

When he went to Semarang, the first place he visited ___ Lawang Sewu.

“Where ___ the children? We have to go to the hotel now.” “I don’t know. They ___ on the seesaw game five minutes ago.”

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Hey, I like your new hat. It fits you well, and when you wear it, it reminds me of Yogyakarta. ___ it expensive?

We saw an empty mosque in the neighborhood and also some empty houses. All of us ___ scared to get close to those buildings because they seemed creepy.

The last thing that we did when we came to Jakarta ___ visiting Masjid Istiqlal. It ___ a fascinating experience to see a huge mosque like that.

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I arrived at school at 07.30. It ___ too late for my class because there ___ an extreme traffic jam on my way to school.

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