1. Match the beginning of each sentence with the most suitable ending to make a story.
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1) The Ocean Hotel opened 2) There’s been a sushi restaurant there 3) I went for a meal there 4) I lost coat 5) I phoned the restaurant 6) The manager asked me to wait 7) That’s why I’ve felt cold |
a half an hour ago. b last night. c in 2018. d since January. e all day. f when I went there. g for a few days in case it’s found. |
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1) c 2) d 3) b 4) f 5) a 6) g 7) e
2. Choose the correct alternative.
1) sister has been / was interested in medicine ever since she has been / she was a child.
2) How long have you studied / did you study before you have qualified / you qualified?
3) Where have you first met / did you first meet your boyfriend?
4) Is this the first time you’ve cooked / you cooked dinner for the whole family?
5) We’ve wanted / We wanted to go to out last night, but we haven’t had / we didn’t have any money.
6) What can we do? I’m sure something has happened / happened to ALEX. We’ve been calling / We called him for over an hour and he still hasn’t answered / he still hasn’t been answering.
7) We have posted / We posted the contract to you three weeks ago. If you haven’t received / you didn’t receive it yet, please email us immediately.
8) I’m exhausted because I’ve worked / I’ve been working in a restaurant for the past three weeks. I’ve never realised / I never realised before how hard the work is!
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2) did you study ___ you qualified
3) did you first meet
4) you’ve cooked
5) We wanted ___ we didn’t have
6) has happened ___ We’ve been calling ___ he still hasn’t answered
7) We posted ___ you haven’t received
8) I’ve been working ___ I never realised
3. Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box in the correct form: present perfect or past simple.
be be break earn forget give
go have offer phone tell train
1) Ben __has been __ off work all this week.
2) Gina ____________ to the cinema every weekend when she was a student.
3) Pippa ____________ very quiet recently. Is she OK?
4) Eric ____________ every day for six months before he ran the marathon.
5) How long ____________ Nick ____________ his current job?
6) _______ Tina ____________ her parents since she left home?
7) Ow, that hurt! I think I ____________ toe.
8) Jack ____________ me about his problems last night.
9) I ____________ Sue’s address. Do you have it?
10) Jane ____________ more money in her last job, but she enjoys this one more.
11) _______ Mark ____________ you his phone number before he left?
12) brother ____________ to lend me his car tomorrow, so I needn’t get the bus.
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2) went 3) ’s been / has been
4) trained 5) has Nick had
6) Has Tina phoned
7) ’ve broken / have broken 8) told
9) ’ve forgotten / have forgotten 10) earned
11) Did Mark give 12) ’s offered / has offered
4. Put the verbs into the correct form: present perfect simple or past simple. Read the whole text before you begin.
Then and Now
Thirty years ago only a few people (1) __realised __ (realise) how greatly technology was about to transform everyone’s daily lives. These few decades (2) ________ (see) enormous changes in how people live, study and work.
Trips to the supermarket which once (3) ________ (take) half the weekend have been replaced with online ordering. Music lovers who once (4) ________ (spend) hours wandering around shops, simply download the tracks they want to hear. Information which (5) ________ (require) hours of research in a library (6) ________ (become) available to anybody in a few clicks on the keyboard. The spread of laptops and wi-fi (7) ________ (enable) students and business people to work almost anywhere at anytime and mobile phones (8) ________ (transform) the way people organise their lives.
However, some people question how much our lives (9) ________ (improve) over these years. Online banking, for example, (10) ________ (replace) the friendly bank clerk who (11) ________ (know) your name with an impersonal website. Teachers complain that students (12) ________ (learn) to copy and paste instead of thinking for themselves. There are fears that governments and companies (13) ________ (not / do) enough to safeguard personal data stored online. Certainly, some of us may now be wondering whether modern technology (14) ________ (bring) us as many problems as it (15) ________ (solve).
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2) has seen 3) took 4) spent
5) required 6) has become 7) has enabled
8) have transformed 9) have improved
10) has replaced 11) knew 12) have learnt
13) haven’t done / have not done
14) has brought 15) has solved
5. Alex wants to go to an art college and is being interviewed by Tom Smith, one of the lecturers. Complete the questions which Tom asks him. Read the whole conversation before you begin.
TOM: Right, ALEX, let’s find out something about you. When (1) __did you leave __ school?
ALEX: Five years ago, actually.
TOM: And what (2) ____________ since then?
ALEX: Well, I’ve had several jobs.
TOM: What (3) ____________ first?
ALEX: I worked in a cafe for about a year. I needed to save a lot of money.
TOM: Why (4) ____________ the money?
ALEX: I wanted to travel a bit before I started studying.
TOM: Where (5) ____________ to go?
ALEX: Well, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia ___
TOM: Wow! And (6) ____________ all those places?
ALEX: No, not yet. I’ve been to Brazil and Peru so far. And I spent some months in Turkey.
TOM: Where (7) ____________ there?
ALEX: With some friends near Izmir. It was great.
TOM: You’re very lucky. And now you want to come to college. (8) ____________ some work to show me?
ALEX: Um, yes, I’ve got some paintings here.
TOM: Where (9) ____________ these?
ALEX: Mostly in Turkey.
TOM: (10) ____________ anything in South America?
ALEX: No, I didn’t have time to paint. And I was travelling light, so I just did some pencil sketches. They’re behind the paintings.
TOM: Well, ALEX, I’m very impressed. When (11) ____________ interested in painting and drawing?
ALEX: I think I always have been.
TOM: I can believe that. This work is very good.
ALEX: Thank you very much.
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Example answers:
2) have you done 3) did you do or was the
4) did you need 5) did you want
6) have you been to or have you visited
7) did you stay
8) Have you brought or Did you bring
9) did you do 10) Did you paint
11) did you become
6. Choose ten of the pictures and write true sentences about yourself. Use the present perfect or past simple.
1) I __haven’t ridden a bike __ since last month.
2) Yesterday I ________
3) In the past six months I ________
4) Since last birthday I ________
5) I ____________ recently.
6) Last year I ________
7) Six months ago I ________
8) I ____________ since I was a child.
9) I ____________ yesterday evening.
10) This week I ________
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Example answers:
2) Yesterday I studied English.
3) In the past six months I’ve done the washing-up every day.
4) Since last birthday I’ve played golf twice a week.
5) I haven’t driven a car recently.
6) Last year I got married.
7) Six months ago I passed an important exam.
8) I haven’t ridden a bike since I was a child.
9) I ate noodles yesterday evening.
10) This week I’ve texted best friend over a hundred times.
