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1. WRITE questions with How long? or How long ago?

They have been at the bus stop for ten minutes.
My friends moved to their new house two weeks ago.
You have had that motorbike for too long.
She has had that money box since yesterday.
I began to study Spanish last year.

2. COMPLETE the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
2 Sandy started to wear her hair long when she was 18. She is still wearing it long.
Sandy ___________________________________________________ her hair long
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5 My parents got married twenty years ago.
My parents ________________________________________________
twenty years.
6 Jane is at Tate Modern and she started her visit at 10 oclock.
Jane _____________________________________________________ Tate Modern
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7 My husband came back from Sydney yesterday.
My husband _______________________________________________ here
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8 They turned on the TV at 8 p.m. Its 11 p.m. now.
They ______________________________________________________
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3. COMPLETE the sentences using the second conditional and the verbs below.
feel have tell eat pass change sleep see study go earn watch
3 You ____________ (neg.) all night if you ____________ this scary film.
9 If he ____________ all that food, he ____________ a serious stomach ache.
10 If I ____________ more money, my life ____________ completely.
11 ____________ (you) to bed, if you ____________ ill?
12 If we ____________ Tom, we ____________ him you are waiting for him here.
13 ____________ (Christine) her exams if she ____________ harder?
4. CORRECT the mistakes in the sentences.
4 If you saw your best friends boyfriend/girlfriend with someone else, will you phone your
best friend immediately?
5 Would you do nothing if you have got flu or a cold?
6 If my friend has a horrible new hair cut, Id tell him/her I preferred him/her before.
7 If someone started bleeding from a wound, Ill tie something firmly below the wound.
8 Ive got headache. You better take an aspirin.
9 If someone started having an asthma attack, you help him sit and take his medicine.
5. COMPLETE the sentences with the correct form of the past simple or past
continuous.
10 I ____________ (not to like) the waffles she ____________ (to make) but I
____________ (to enjoy) the rest of breakfast.
14 When they ____________ (to understand) that we ____________ (not to want) to talk
with them, they ____________ (to leave) the room.
15 What ____________ (Bard / to do) when he ____________ (to invent) the first
television? He ____________ (to experiment) with the transmission of pictures.
16 She ____________ (to realise) how he ____________ (to feel) when she ____________
(to see) that he ____________ (to laugh).
17 Spencer ____________ (to attach) an electromagnetic field to a metal box when he
____________ (to investigate) heating effects.