module 7 Ambitions and dreams _ Practice 4 Use eight ofthese ideas to make true sentences about yourself / people you know. Examples: tue had my mobile phone for three months My father huis worked as an engincer for more that twenty years. a Thave had / had my... for .. D_ I've been / was a... for have been / was at years. d__ Before that I have been / was at © Thave lived / lived in ... for f Thave known / knew ... for 9 My grandparents have lived / lived in for... years h_ My father | mother has worked / worked 8 a... for. years. 1... (your teacher's name) has been / was our teacher for (my school) for Pronunciation sentences you hear. Notice the pronunciation of for in each sentence. 2 Listen again and practise saying the 2. book at the list of irregular verbs on page 157. Find: a. six verbs that are the same in all forms. cost ~ cost ~ cost twelve verbs that have the same past tense and past participle. buy ~ bought ~ bought two verbs that are only different in the past tense. runt = ran rt twelve verbs that are different in all three forms. break ~ bok 3 Underline all the past tense forms in the tapescript of Before They Were Famous on page 167. Do you know the past participle of each verb? Use the verb table on page 157 if you are not sure. Language focus 2 Present perfect and Past simple with other time words 4 Robbie eft school in 1995. He is remembering his old school friends. Complete the sentences using the verbs below. 1 @EED Listen and write down the ten sentences, decided didn't enjoy didn’t go. had liked spent studied wanted was went “Ameer was always interested ® lots of brilliant ideas for making money and n business ~ he always his ambition to be a niillionaire by the age of twenty-five! Lucy was a film addict _ she sometimes (8) to the cinema four or five times a week. She (4) 10 become a famous film actress like her heroine, Halle Berry Edward was always very quiet, and he (3) out very much ~ he (6) ‘most of his time at home in his bedroom, playing games on his computer Kate (7 for at least three hours every evening ~ ‘when she was eighteen years old, she (8) 0 become an ecologist and help save the planet Hannah (9) school at all - for some reason, the ‘only subject she (10) ‘was geography! 2, GHD Liston and check your answers. 3 Robbie contacted his old friends through the Old Friends website, What do you think they are doing now? Read the text opposite and find out.During the last en years, Ameet has had ten different jobs: he has worked in the import-export business, he has been an estate agent, and nov he has just started his own company which sell ‘mobile phones ~ but he hasnt made a million yet Edward has moved to the United States, where he now works designing computer games. His most popular game ~ Death Tiap — has already sold over ten million copies, and has made him, very rich! He isn't married, and in fact he’s never had a dnlfiend, and he sill spends most of his time playing computer games in his bedroom, Lucy is an actress and a parttime waitress. In the last few years, 's appeared in several plays and a couple of TV commercials but there’s been na call from Hollywood yet! Since leaving university with a brilliant degree, Kate has ‘worked for Greenpeace and other similar organisations, first as a volunteer and now asa manager. She's just had her first baby. In the last ten years, Hannah has been married three times, and hhas lived in Italy, Egypt, France and Australia. At present, she is ‘running a small restaurant and bar on the Greek istand of Kos with her third husband, Nikos. A, Workin pairs and answer the following questions Say two things that each person hasihasn’t done. b Whose experiences in the last few years are: + the most surprising? * the most interesting? 1 Underline all the examples of the Past simple in exercise 1 and all the examples of the Present perfect in exercise 3. Which tense refers to: + past time that is finished? + aperiod of time that continues to the present? 2 Look at the time words in the box. Which time words can you use with each of the phrases below? already five years ago in 2002 Just last year never when | was six years old yet @ Isawhim... b I've... seenhim ¢ Ihaven't seen him, > Read Language summary C on page 152. Practice a Use the ideas below to make sentences in the Present perfect. Example: just / 1 go / the hairdresser's / to Tve just been to the hairdressers. 1 not // yet / finish / school 2. just / lunch /1/ have 3. 1/onholiday / already / go / this year 4 ana / ora leg / never /1/ break 5. 1/go/ yet / this year / not / to the dentist's 6 1 /do / anything exciting / not / this week 7 1/anyone famous / never / meet 8 I/ona plane / this year / travel / not 9 not/I/ do / any sport / this week 10. I/ never / anything / steal b Which of the sentences are true for you? Compare your answers with a partner. Teead I've played football) \\ twice. How about you? _/ 2 Workin pairs and ask and answer the following questions. In the last fiverten years: a which cities / foreign countries have you visited? how many times have you changed school/job? ¢ how many times have you moved house? d_ which important skills have you learnt? e which new sports or interests have you taken up? {what other important things have happened to you? 3, Think of a group of people that you knew fivelten years ago (for example, schoolmates, colleagues, neighbours). Write a paragraph about what has happened to them, 65