M Past participles
Complete the chart.
Infinitive | Past Past participle |
make made —
| saw
_ played
meet
had
uy ee
be eae =
—— heard
gone
travel a =
@ Present perfect
[a] Complete the questions and answers.
1 So, Annabel, have you worked as a travel
courier before? (work)
2 Well, no, I haven't, but I
atravel agent's. (work)
3 Good to Britain?
(be)
41 to England, but I
to Scotland, Ireland or
Wales. (be, not be)
alot? (travel)
6 No, haven't, but I
tourists. (meet)
alot of
[B] Write sentences about Annabel.
1 travel courier
She hasn't worked as a travel courier.
a travel agent's
3 England
4 Scotland
Suacdalt
6 meet a lot of touristsM Reading Mi How long? + for /since
2 [B] Write How long? questions about Cynthia.
1 be divorced
iseh Decent 1996
| CYNTHIA
| LENNON ON How long has she been divorced?
[LIFE WITH 2 have / her favourite dress?
J JOHN and why :
| her favourite song
| we by the Beatles,
| Cynthia, 56, met her
| first husband, John
| Lennon, when they
| were students, They
{got married in 1962,
had one son, julian, and
got divorced six years
{Iater. She now lives on
| the Isle of Man with an |
3 have / her favourite shoes?
4 live /on the Isle of Man?
5 Her son Julian / have / his piano?
[BlWrite answers with for or since.
1 She's been divorced for 28 years / since 1968,
[exchaufeur. jim Wace che moneyou ;
| Christie. uewweta 3 =
| @ What's your favourite another persont 4
| keem of clothing? bought Julian a second
1A black dress. tes hand Bechstein grand -
| probably too big for me, piano for his 18th
{ but it’s very comfortable. birthday in 1981. He MW Present perfect
| Tboughe it from Marks & composed his first song
| Spencer two years ago. on that plano
| @ whae's your favourite @ What's your favourite
pair of shoest song?
{like comfortable shoes. Strangely, nota Beatles
Ihave a pair of red and song. My favourite song i
| green walking shoes Cole Porters Night and
{ which Tboughe three Day. {heard i ina fn
| years ago. I've walked all and there was something
| over France and Britain really romantic about i
3 Correct the mistake in each sentence.
1 Lwork here for ten years.
T've worked here for ten years,
2 T been married since 1996.
3 Mario has bought his car three years ago.
| inher. 1 Who's your best 4. Evals had a cold since three days,
Wat's the most iend and how did you
ive thing you eet? ———__________
| Rave ever bough? Pyle McKaraia, We 5 They know each other since they were
| in19701 boughea house met at school at the age children,
| wth a swimming pool of twelve. We're stl
| near London for £23,000, close friends.
6 She's lived there for all hes life.
1. Read the article, Match the dates and events.
49481952 196219681970 1981
1 Julian's 18th birthday.
She got divorced
She was born. 1940
2
3
4 She got married —
5. She met her best friend,
6
She bought a house with a
swimming pool, neBorn in the USSR
Natalia Morskova
is probably the top
player of a very
hard sport:
women’s handball.
She was born in
Rostov in Russia
in the former
USSR on 17th
January 1966. She
first started
playing when she
was twelve, and
she has been a
professional player
since she was
sixteen. She was
the star member of the Russian women’s team,
and in 1988 they won the Olympic bronze medal.
Two years later they became world champions,
and Natalia was voted the top player in the world.
‘Then she decided to leave Russia and went to
Spain to play for the Spanish league champions,
Mar Valencia. She has lived in Spain since 1991
She has been married for ten years and has a
daughter, Natasha, aged nine,
A
Russian
star
1 Read about Natalia. In pairs, find why these
‘numbers are important to her.
17 12 16 1988 1999 1991 10 9
2 Complete the answers from the text.
1 How long has she lived in Spain?
She in Spain 1991
2. How long has she been married?
She_______ married __ten years.
Answer ‘yes’ oF ‘no!
Does she live in Spain now?
2. Isshe married now?
GRAMMAR FOCUS
Present perfect + for! since
She went to Spain in 1991. She lives in Spain now.
How long has she lived in Spain?
She’ lived in Spain since 1991.
She's lived in Spain for. years.
Complete the rules with since or for:
‘To answer the question How long ...? use:
1 + aperiod of time:
(G0) minutes, (2) hours, (4) days, (3) years
2 ___ +a fixed point in time:
acdate (6th June), a month (uly) a year (1996)
Use the present perfect to talk about actions
which started in the past and are still true now.
PRACTICE
Put the expressions in the right group.
thee months my last birthday Hwewechild
May 1960 tendays afew weeks ages
was eighteen
along time
for | since
Iwasa child
Complete with the present perfect + since or for.
1 Natalia started playing handball when she was
twelve. She plays handball now.
She's played handball since she was twelve.
‘We bought our car two years ago. We have it now.
We_
3 Lee moved to Leeds in April. He lives there.
He __
4. { got married six months ago. I'm still married.
They —____.
5 Italy becamea republic in 1946. sa republic
now.
Italy
Write the five questions.
1 How long has she played handball?