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- 1 SPEAKING Describe the photo. Have you ever been to a wedding? What was it like?
- 2 Complete the sentences with the correct past simple, past continuous, or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets.
- 3 Read the Learn this! box. Then choose the correct answers to complete the sentences.
- 4 Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the correct tense from the two Learn this! boxes.
- 5 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
(Page 11)
I can talk about events that took place in the past.
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| LEARN THIS! Past tenses a We use the past simple for a sequence of events that happened one after the other. b We use the past continuous to describe an activity that was in progress at a certain time in the past. c We use the past simple for a single event that interrupted a longer event in the past. We use the past continuous for the longer event. d We use the past perfect for an event that happened before another time in the past. |
2 Complete the sentences with the correct past simple, past continuous, or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets.
1 My brother __________ (learn) to drive while he __________ (study) at university.
2 It __________ (snow) all the time that we __________ (drive) up to Scotland.
3 I __________ (grow) up in London, but when I was sixteen, we __________ (move) to Edinburgh.
4 My sister finally __________ (get) her first job a year after she __________ (leave) university!
5 My mum __________ (emigrate) to New York, and she __________ (start) a business while she __________ (live) there.
6 I __________ (meet) my best friend last night.
I __________ (not see) her for over a year!
 Grammar Builder I.3 pages 113–114 |
| LEARN THIS! Present perfect simple and continuous We use the present perfect simple to talk about: a how long a current situation has existed (often with for and since). b a completed experience at an unspecified time in the past. c an event that is strongly connected with the present (often with just, already and yet). We use the present perfect continuous to talk about: d an event that began in the past and is still in progress. (We often use for or since to say how long the event has been in progress.) e an event that has recently stopped and which explains the present situation. |
3 Read the Learn this! box. Then choose the correct answers to complete the sentences.
1 Mary's face is red because she has been jogging/ jogged for an hour.
2 My parents have been marrying/married for 25 years.
3 It's been raining/rained all morning and I don't think it'll ever stop.
4 We've been buying/bought a new house, and we move in next week!
| Grammar Builder I.4 and I.5 pages 114-115 |
4 Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the correct tense from the two Learn this! boxes.
I 
______just ______ (receive) an email from my cousin Carl. I 
__________(not see) him since he 
__________(go) to the wedding. Its 
__________ (be) great fun. I 
__________ (not go) to a wedding before. Anyway, he and Sally 
__________ (be) married for about nine months now. They 
__________ (work) really hard and her boss 
__________ (offer) her a job in the Paris office. That's great news. She's going to accept it. She 
__________ (learn) French while she 
__________ (live) in France in the 1990s, so she'll have no problem settling in there. 5 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
1 How many family events have you been to in the past few years?
2 What kinds of events were they? What happened?
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