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Mục lục:

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.

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I can talk about events that took place in the past.

1 SPEAKING Describe the photo. Have you ever been to a wedding? What was it like?

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 (1) ______ just ______ (receive) an email from my cousin Carl. I (2) __________(not see) him since he (3) __________ (get) married last summer. We all (4) __________(go) to the wedding. Its (5) __________ (be) great fun. I (6) __________ (not go) to a wedding before. Anyway, he and Sally (7) __________ (be) married for about nine months now. They (8) __________ (live) in London since the marriage. According to Carl, Sally (9) __________ (work) really hard and her boss (10) __________ (offer) her a job in the Paris office. That's great news. She's going to accept it. She (11) __________ (learn) French while she (12) __________ (live) in France in the 1990s, so she'll have no problem settling in there.