GUIDE NUMBER 5

TALKING ABOUT PAST PERFECT TENSE

READING AND WRITING

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GRAMMAR AND USE OF ENGLISH
LISTENING
Listen to five different people talking about their jobsand do the exercises to practise and improve your
listening skills.

Preparation
Do this exercise before you listen. Write the correct word in the boxes below the picture.

shop assistant teacher dentist cleaner

tour guide doctor pilot nurse

1. Check your undersandlng: gap €II

Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

pilot dentist shop assistant

tour guide nurse

1. Speaker A works as a

2. Speaker B works as a

3. Speaker C works as a

4. Speaker D works as a

5. Speaker E works as a
2. C heck your understanding: multiple choice
Do this exercise while you listen. Circle the best answer for these questions.

Yes.
1. Does speaker A enjoy his job? Sometimes.
No

When he is at university
2. When does speaker A work? Weekends
Summer holidays.

Weekdays.
3. When does speaker B work? Weekends and holidays
Summer holidays.

Visiting universities.
4. What does speaker B say tourists love doing? Taking a boat trip.
Swimming in the river.

Yes.
5. Does speaker C like his job? Sometimes.
No

Travelling to many countries.

6. What does speaker D say is diffiEult about being a Learning many languages.
pilot? Flying planes in bad weather.

Visiting different places.

Meeting dif1erent people
7. What does speaker D say is the best thing about nis The different weather.
job?
The doctors.
The sick people
What does speaker E not like about her job? The uniform.
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 Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Tense

Use the information provided below to make sentences with present perfect progressive tense and “ever
since”.

plan - eat - sit - bum - fight - lose - rain - smoke -

wait - give - look - date - work - look forward to

I. When the boys came home, both had black eyes. They had been ñehtine.

2. Mary’s mouth was all red. She a stcawberry ice creara.

3. When I woke up this morning, the sun was shining, but the ground was all wet. It
during the night.

4. The firemen finally put out the fire. It for several hours before they arrived.

5. When I went to Carol’s house yesterday, her hands were covered in mud. She
in the garden for a few hours before I got there.

6. Michael bought a new computer last week because his old one him bouble
for quite some time.
7. Mr. Jones finally had to close his business. It money for several years.

8. The police for the thief for six months before they finally caught him.

9. It is too bad that Cathy had to cancel her trip last week. She it for such a long time.

10.L on the corner for Patty for over an hour before she finally arrived.

11. When I went home last night, I could smell cigarettes in the house. Somebody
before I got home.

12. Bob Mary for over two years before she finally broke up with him.

13. Marcia was very disappointed when we had to cancel our lunch date. She
it for a long time.

14.I in the waiting room for over an hour before the doctor finally arrived.