Grammar unit 2

1 Correct the mistakes. a I / get / a new job / in a school last year

1 Holly knows Luke since two years. 8 b they / be / together / that night
__________________________________________ c I / not meet / my fiancé
2 Have you finish your homework still? 8 d he / finish / with me last night
__________________________________________ 1 ______________________________________
3 Has you ever visited Paris? 8 __________________________________________
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4 Mrs Jones just have arrived. 8 2 __________________________________________
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5 Tom doesn’t spoken yet to Paula. 8 __________________________________________
__________________________________________ 3 __________________________________________
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2 Complete the dialogue. Use the present perfect
form of the verbs and the words in the boxes. __________________________________________
4 __________________________________________
be fancy tell text not text
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already for just since yet __________________________________________

Sarah Matt has just texted me about the party. 4 Complete the text with the past simple, present
Molly Really? He (1)_______________ me perfect or present perfect continuous form of
the verbs in the box.
_______________! I don’t know why he
texts you but not me. Matt and I avoid be (x2) decide have
know not arrive sit start wait
(2)_______________ friends
It’s nine o’clock. I (1)____________________
_______________ we were in primary
for Kirsty for two hours, but she
school!
(2)____________________ yet. I
Sarah I don’t understand it either!
(3)____________________ to finish with
Molly Oh, perhaps he fancies you.
her. I don’t want to, but I’m fed up. I
Sarah But I (3)_______________ him that I’ve got
(4)____________________ Kirsty for a long time
a boyfriend. Oh, listen, that’s your phone.
– since our first day in secondary school – and
Is it a message from Matt?
we (5)____________________ good friends since
Molly Yes! He says … oh … ‘Hi Molly, Don’t
then. We (6)____________________ going out
forget my party on Saturday. Do you think
three months ago and in the first few weeks it
Sarah will come? I (4)_______________ her
(7)____________________ great. But about two
___________ ages!’
weeks ago, Kirsty and I (8)____________________
3 Match 1–4 with a–d on the right. Then write an argument and she (9)____________________ me
sentences. Use the past simple or present perfect
since then. I like Kirsty a lot, but I’m not an idiot. I
form of the verbs and for, since, yet or just.
(10)____________________ here for too long. I’ll
1 they / meet / at a party / 2007
finish with her tomorrow.
2 I / be / a teacher / three years
3 my boyfriend and I / split up
4 my parents / arrange / my marriage /
last month

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Vocabulary unit 2
1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of 3 Match 1–9 with extreme adjectives a–i.
the phrases in the box.
1 ugly a filthy
ask … out chat up fall out with 2 good-looking b tiny
go on a date make up meet split up
3 angry c hideous
1 Max and Ellen have decided to ______________. 4 dirty d boiling
They weren’t getting on very well. 5 hot e gorgeous
2 John is very bad at ______________ girls. 6 clean f furious
He isn’t very confident and never knows what 7 big g awful
to say to them! 8 bad h spotless
3 Chris ______________ Peter because they 9 small i enormous
fancied the same girl.
4 Complete the sentences with extreme adjectives
4 Lucas and Anna had a huge argument last week from exercise 3.
but they ______________ and they’re friends
1 You really need to clean this kitchen.
again now.
It’s ______________!
5 Katie finally _____________ Paul _____________
2 My cousin’s boyfriend is a basketball player.
last week. She’d fancied him for ages but she’s
He’s really tall and he’s got ______________ feet!
so shy.
3 My aunt cleans her house every day. It’s always
6 Freddie ______________ Laura at a party last
______________.
weekend. They ______________ to the beach
4 Be careful when you go out in the sun today.
yesterday.
It’s ______________ outside.
2 Look at the pictures and write the story. 5 My brother’s apartment is ______________.
He hasn’t got enough room for everything.
At a party Two days later
6 My mum has just bought a really ugly sofa. In
fact, it’s ______________.

5 Write sentences with the same meaning. Use

The following week The next day
Tim and Lucy ________________________________
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two extreme adjectives from exercise 3 in each
sentence.
1 I’ve just seen my cousin’s boyfriend in a photo.
He’s very good-looking, but his clothes are from
the 1970s!
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2 My parents were extremely angry because
nobody had cleaned the house while they were
away.
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3 The house wasn’t big enough for one person,
but the garden was about a kilometre long!
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