To ... a (Afraid to do and afraid of doing) Complete the conversations. Use 2 preposition + -ing or the infinitive. A. Sid and Tom are walking through the town centre. sw: TOM: swe ind preposition + -ing Look, there’s Angela. Isn't she lovely? She's all right. You really like her, don’t you? ‘Oh, yes. I often dream (1) 9b ¢... (take) her out for a meal or a film, but T'm afraid (2) ..£2.886.... (asi) her, Why? Well, T suppose Tm afraid (3) au If you like her so much, you shouldn't be afraid 4) Anyway, I'm sure she won't refuse. Really? OK, Pll phone her tonight. Good. I'm glad I've succeeded (5) hee. ‘Why do you say that? 1 happen to know she rather fancies you. I told her 'd make you phone her! She'll be looking forward (6). _-- (hear) from you! _~ (look) foolish if she refuses. _ (risk) it, ~ (petsuade) you to phone B Brian and Phil are at work. aRiaN: Good morning Phil, could we have 2 ward in my office? eran: Dm sony (7. aR: OK, I’m sure you'll make it up soon. I'm thinking (10). Of course. —. (have} to say this, bur Pm afraid you failed © om ane (achieve) high enough sales to carn a bonus this month. Tsuppose the bad weather kept the customers away? Yes, | guess s0. I'm very sorry 0) - (let) you down this time. (send) one or two junior sales staff on a course nexe month, Would you be interested 1 (go)? Yes, Twould be. sean: Good. Tl put your name on the list. Thank you. © Joanna has phoned Katie JOANNA: I'm sorry (12)... _- (forget) your birthday last week. ‘KATIE: ‘Thar’s OK. You were in the middle of your exams. You're allowed 113) ne ... (forget) people’s birthdays on exam dayst JOANNA: That shouldn't have prevented me (14) (send) you a card. Did you get some from the family? KATIE: Well, Mum was the only one (15) a vw. (remember). JOANNA: Well, she’s not likely ao). __. (forget), is she? No, I suppose you're right.Verb forms: review Put the verbs in the correct form. Can you solve this detective puzzle? i ‘Trevor Stern was not a popular man, in spite of his wealth. He (1) xed. (live) in a large house about 2 mile outside the village of Prenton. When he a) 4s. fo4nd._. (find) dead in his study, no-one (a) ..%#4.. (cry), not even his only daughtec ‘At was soon clear chat he (4)... wm (enurder). ‘Detective Inspector Blackledge took statements from his widow Dorothy, his seventeen-year-old daughter Lucy, his business parmer > Gerald Brook, and his doctor. poKOTHY (not / ove) my husband, he was a cold and selfish man. But I (not / murder) him, either. After dinner last night he said he (want) to check some business papers in his study. He (have) a meeting wich Gerald, his business partner, the next (ask) for some tea. Thar was about nine o'clock. 1 ao (watch) a rather exciting film on television, so I an (ell) Lucy to take it to him. ‘At quarter past nine Doctor Emerson (12). 03, (notice) the time because we (14 (expect) him to come earlier I as) (answer) the front door bell. Trevor 16) ~ (Shout) in bis study. He and Lucy «7 (obviously / have) a serious row. So I (18 (take) the doctor invo the sitting-room for a moment. Then Trevor stopped 119) (shout). I guessed Lucy 20). —-- (£0) the back door. Doctor Emerson went t0 the smudy. 1 think he wanted to persuade Trevor 2) re——- ~- (0) into hospial for some tests, but Trevor 22). ~~ (not / want} t0 20. | Te . (hear) my husband shouting again several times over the next twenty minutes, Hie called Emerson an ignorant country doctor and larer he said something like, “There’s nothing you can do?’ I think Lucy as. (come) back into she house while the doctor 25). 125) nnn Trevor (27) ann Onn morning. He (9) nr (call). 1 (still alk) to Trevor, (hear) the frone door bang during a moment of quict when _. (not / shout). I was tired and fed up, and went to my hedroom soon after that. My SISter (28) ....smnanme (phone) and we 2) _—-— {tall for ages. TOM ——— wo (tell) her To saeeeeneeennnenenees (G8Cide) to leave Trevor. 8990 Verb forms: review f Verb Mum (32) cae ... (watch) a stupid film after dinnes, so she made me 4 | x (8) nnn (Cake) Dad’ tea into his stady. ft was about nine o'clock. He was x in a really mean mood. He shouted at me because I (54) nnn (Spill) afew e drops of tea on his desk while 1 (35)... (pour) it. 1 ¢t es) (not / want} to watch the film, so.1 67. ' st {crcep) out of che house by the back door. T (9m ———— (decide) t0 go down to the village and use the public phone to call Alan. He’s my boyttiend, d w To9).. vveenveeene (Vet | like) Mum or Dad to be around when 1 ‘ 1 190) weaeeeenenenen _-+ (talk) to him. Especially yesterday, because Dad and I 7 “ eo .. (have) a stupid argument abour Alan the day before. | h Ita smvvwee (usually / take) quarter of an hour to walk to the village. i Perhaps it (43) TAT _ (take) less time last night. I can’t prove I fc (49) renee (GO) 10 the village. NO-ONE (43) neanenn ( while I (46). 1 (walk) there. 1 (47)... 7 thac's Dad’s business partner. He 18) (stand) near the window in his you sitting-room. He (49) eee (not / see) me though, because it was dark ' outside, He (50) oan (talk) on the phone, 1 think. Alan sy (not / answer) the phone. Then I (3) AAANAROOOARA (remember) he (53) . sewcnnene (Cell) me he (54) on venenene (play) in . a concert that evening, $0 1158) nn (walk) home again. 1 l (58) eon _-vvneeem (Oneet} Gerald just before 1157)... ee (te2ch) ‘our house. He ($3)... .. {look} for his dog. That was about rwenry ro ten. I came in by the back door as quictly as possible and went to bed. T didn’t want to sce my: De parents again that evening. 7 . ms 80 fo DOCTOR EMERSON: / 7 , RC a ’ Tis .. (call) at the Sterns’ house at 9.15. 1160)... 7 4 BL (be) sather later chan I (ct) (plan) to be hecause I (Q)... on, (ist) another patient. When Mrs Stern (63) edie Z : Re (lex) me into the house, she (64) oon (Sem) tather embarrassed and ‘ si (show) me into the siring-room. [could hear Trevor Stern : a 6) (shout) at someone in his study. Mrs Stern said something about teenage girls and that they (67 (have) problems with Lucy. Well, the ‘ , shouting (68! . ~ {stop) almost immediately, so I (69)... 1 (go) tw his study. Lucy (70) (already / leave} the room before I m— ot (get) there. 1 tried (72). 7 .. (explain) to ‘Trevor why he needed (73. have} these hospital tests, but he : 5 (74) jot / listen). He said 1 (75) 2am (be) an ignorant : R conntry doctor who 76) sone (HOL/ KNOW) what he 7 — \ a (talk) about. 1.78)... (cealise) it was no ase 79) with him, so I (80) __ (leave) after only 2 few minutes. [was quite angry v actualy. [let myself out of the house without (8) (sce) Lucy or Mrs Stern.Verb forms: review ‘Yes, Trevor was my business partner, We (82) weo---— v-~wewesee (not / be) really friends. Yes, my howse (8) . (be) just round the corner from the Sterns’. I 08) on {live} here for cwo years now. I (85 (have) a litle cottage in the village, But T (66) started (87). _. (earn) a lot of money. T can’t really tell you very much about the night Trevor died. I took my dog for a long (go) up on the hills, away from the village. _.. (go) after a cabbit or something and T (lose) him in the dark. Len — (look) for (meer) Lucy, as a matter of fact. She (93) one (walk) up the road towards their house. She 04) (seem) rather upset. I told her 1195). (look) for my dog, but she said she (6 (not / see) it. She (97) (go) into ber house and T 1) —— (find) the dog a few minutes afterwards. I was back home by just after (quarter to ten. (buy) this house when T walk that evening. T at) ‘Then the supe dog (89) 90) him when 1 92 ‘ Di Detective Inspector Blackledge showed the statements to her colleague, Sergeant Ross. siACKLEDGE; Well, Ross. What do you think? Who killed Stern? i ROSS: T don’t know. It 9) (not / be) his wife, She (200) (not / even f'go) into the study. BLACKS2DCE: Bue she admits she didn't love him, Do you think shes i love with the doctor? ROSS: Ie’s possible. And perhaps Trevor Stern 401) . (find out). Bur we know the doctor was atthe hospital by ten o’lock that nigh. ‘And that’s at least half an hour from the Sterns” house. sLacsiRGE: But that 102) _. (gnean) he (103). (leave) the Scems’ house before half past nine. Ross: Exactly, Also, Dorothy Stern told her sister she (108) 7 her husband. She didn't need (105) (marder) him, huacksnncs: Yee, and there's something about Lncy’s story which doesn't quite ft. Let's see, what did Gerald Brook say? ROSS: Thar’s it! Lucy (196) a (leave) . vwssannn (NOt / Walk) to the village and back if he 007) vavsoa (ERE) hee at twenty £0 ten. She (108) meen = (still / shout at) by her father at 9.15. bLACKLEDGE: But look at all the statements. The times don fit. ROSS: Neither do the facts. Someone (105)... BLACKLEDGR: I think it’s time we (110) (tell) Kes. (make) an arrest. ‘Who did they arrest? 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