3.
Bill and Sonia are unemployed
• Not have /a job for six months
They haven`t had a job fo six months
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• Not take / vacation since Christmas
They haven`t taken a vacation since Christmas
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• Not be / the movies for a year
They haven`t been the movies for a year
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[Link] is a tennis player
• Play / since she was six
She has play since she was six
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• Not win /a senior competition
She hasn`t won a senior competition
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• Never play / at Wimbledon
She has never played at Wimbledon
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[Link] A QUESTIONS
[Link] these people questions about their experiences
1) A race–car driver / have an accident? ----------------------------------------------------------
Have you ever had an accident? 5) A window cleaner / fall off your ladder?
---------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever fallen off you ladder?
2) An explorer / get lost? ----------------------------------------------------------
6) A pop Singer / have a number-one song?
Have you ever gotten/got lost? Have you ever had a number-one song?
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3) An actress / forget your lines? ----------------------------------------------------------
7) An electrician / have an electric shock?
Have you ever forgotten your lines?
---------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever had an electric shock?
4) A mountaineer / climb Mount Everest? ----------------------------------------------------------
Have you ever climbed Mount Everest?
[Link] match these answers to the questions in exercise 1
3
a) A race–car driver / have an accident?
b) 6
No ,I haven`t yet ,but I reached number 10 with my last one.
2
c) No ,I haven`t, I`ve always had a good team to help me.
5
d) Yes ,I have,lots of times! But not a serious crash.
1 No ,I have unfortunately, I broke my leg.
e)
7
f) No ,I haven`t fortunately, I`am very careful about safety.
g) 4
No ,I haven`t yet ,but I would like to.
[Link] ANSWERS
Answer the questions about “My grandfather” in exercise and about you. Use short answers.
1) Has your grandfather been married for a long time? ----------------------------------------------------------
Yes, He has 6) Have you ever been to mexico?
No, I have not
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2) Has he ever met a famous person? ----------------------------------------------------------
7) Have you ever tried Chinese food?
Yes, He has
---------------------------------------------------------- Yes, I have
3) Has he often been sick? ------------------------------------------------------
8) Has your teacher ever been angry with you?
No, He has not
---------------------------------------------------------- Yes, I have
4) Have he and his wife lived in their house for a long ----------------------------------------------------------
time? 9) Have you ever forgotten to do your homework?
Yes, I have
Yes, They have
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5) Has he had an interesting life?
Yes, He has
[Link] PARTICIPLE
Write the past participle of these verbs.
walked found
1) Walk _________________ 1) find _________________
2) Come come
_________________ 2) Visit visited
_________________
3) Write written
_________________ 3) Stop stopped
_________________
4) Win won
_________________ 4) Study studied
_________________
5) Sell sold
_________________ 5) Die died
_________________
6) Try tried
_________________ 6) Do done
_________________
7) Read ridden
_________________
8) Play played
_________________
[Link] OR SINCE
Complete the senteces with for or since.
for
1) I haven`t seen Keith __________ a while.
since
2) He`s been in China __________ January.
for
3) He Works for a Company called KMP. He has worked for them __________several years.
since
4) He and his wife have lived next to me __________ their son, Tom,was born.
for
5) I have known them __________ many years.
since
6) We have been Friends __________ we were at college together.
since
7) I`m taking care of Tom today. He`s been at my house __________ 8:00 this morning.
[Link] THE CORRECT TENSE
Put the verb in parentheses in the correct tense, present perfect, past simple, or present simple.
JOHN GRISHAM
John Grisham (1) __________
is (be) an autor. His first career (2)
helped
__________ (help) him become an autor. He (3) __________ graduated
(graduate) from law school at Mississippi State University in 1981
and (4) __________
began (begin) to work as a lawyer. One day he
overheard a criminal case and decided to start a novel about what
finished (finish) his first novel, A
might have happened. He (5) __________
spent
Time to Kill, in 1988 after he (6) __________ (spend) three years
writing it. Since publishing A Time to Kill in 19888, Grisham (7)
__________
has written (write) one novel a year. All of his novels (8)
__________
has become (become) best-sellers. There (9) __________ were (be)
currently over 60 million Jhon Grisham books in print
worldwide,which have been translated into 29 languages.
Grisham is married to Renee, his wife of 16 years. They have two
divided (divide) their time between
cildn. He family (10) __________
farm in Mississippi and a plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia.
[Link] QUESTIONS
Write the questions about John Grisham.
does he do
1) What __________________________________________? He`s an author
did he help to become an author
2) What __________________________________________? His first career
did he graduated
3) When __________________________________________? In 1981
did he became
4) What __________________________________________? A lawyer
did he write his first novel
5) When __________________________________________? In 1988
did he spend in his first novel
6) How long __________________________________________? Three years
novels he write in a year
7) How many __________________________________________? One a year
novels has been the best-seller
8) How many __________________________________________? All of his novels
books has been print
9) How many __________________________________________? Sixty million
is his wife`s name
10) What __________________________________________? Renee
did his family divided
11) Where __________________________________________? In Mississippi and Virginia
