Choose the best words for the gaps in the sentences below.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Promise me that you will phone me __________you get to the airport. "I'll take some money with me just ________ I see something I want to buy." Jen promised to look after Harriet's cat _________she was on holiday. I set the alarm for 6.30 in the morning __________I wouldn't miss the train. We waited at the platform ____________the train had disappeared into the distance. You mustn't forget to lock the door __________leaving the house in the morning. He was so tired _________ he had stayed up late to watch the football match. _________you stop eating so much chocolate you won't be able to fit into your bikini!

9. He didn't come home until past midnight _________he had promised that he would be in by 9pm. 10. He decided to buy a new car _________ having lost his job the previous month.

As soon as, in case, while, so that, until, before, because, unless, although, in spite of.

These next ones are more difficult. You have to choose the right linking word, making sure that the sentence makes sense! 1. 2. 3. 4. I have to get this assignment in ______ the end of the day. _____ having a swim we lay in the sun, watching the boats in the distance. I saw him go into the office and ten minutes _______he came out looking very pale. She stayed at school _______ she was 18 and then went to university.

5. We decided to have a barbeque _______the weather forecast saying there was rain coming. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. He could beat his father at chess _______ he was only 8. I like holidays by the sea _______ my husband prefers to go to the mountains. I quite like octopus, _____ I really love oysters. He's getting quite tall, _____the time he is 14 he will be taller than his father! _______how hard he tried, he just couldn't understand what she was saying.

By, after, later, until,despite, although, whereas/but; but, by, however