Grammar Unit 1
Past simple, past continuous and used to
1 Write the correct tenses.
We use it for a past habit or state. used to
1 We use it for a completed action in the past.
____________
2 We use it for an action that was interrupted by
another action. ____________
3 We use it for an action that happened
immediately after another action. ____________
4 We often use while before it. ____________
2 Correct the mistakes in the sentences.
Did the film use to start at two o’clock yesterday?
Did the film start at two o’clock yesterday?
1 Jordan was lucky. He didn’t sleep when the
fire started.
____________________________________
2 We didn’t used to care about animals, but we
do now.
____________________________________
3 Did you used to work in your parents’ shop
when you were sixteen?
____________________________________
4 When the bully tried to hit me, the teacher was
stopping him.
____________________________________
5 While Mariella walked along the street, she fell.
____________________________________
3 Complete the text. Choose the correct option
and write the correct past simple, past
continuous or used to form of the verbs.
Sometimes more than one answer is possible.
When / While (1) I ____________ (walk) to school
on Monday morning, (2) I ____________ (see)
Grace, a girl from my History class, sitting on a
bench at the bus stop.
(3) When / While (4) I ____________ (get) closer, I
noticed that (5) she ____________ (cry). When I
was younger, (6) I ____________ (not care) a lot
about other people’s problems, but I do now, so I
stopped to talk to her. (7) While / When I asked her
what the matter was, she said that a girl from
school (8) ____________ (send) her cruel
messages on Facebook. I told her that we should
tell a teacher about this and stop it.
(9) ____________ (you / have) problems with
bullies when you were at school? I think we must all
make an effort to stop horrible cyber bullies.
Present perfect simple and present perfect
continuous
4 Complete the rules with the words in the box.
continuous finished for simple since
unfinished
We use the present perfect continuous to focus on
an action which is (1) ____________ .
We use the present perfect (2) ____________ to
focus on the present result of an action which
is (3) ____________ .
We use (4) ‘ ____________ ’ to say how long
something has lasted and (5) ‘ ____________ ’ to
say when something started.
5 Complete the dialogues with the correct present
perfect simple or present perfect continuous
form of the verbs in parentheses.
A My friend has started (start) writing a blog.
B Really? I haven’t seen (not see) it.
1 A Where’s Fin? I __________ (not have) time to
talk to him all evening.
B He’s in his room. He __________ (study)
since six.
2 A Meg __________ (plan) the party for days.
B I know, but she __________ (not finish) yet.
3 A We __________ (know) Mrs Rae for years.
B I don’t know her well. I __________ (meet)
her once.
4 A Tom __________ (repair) his car all morning.
B Yes, and he still __________ (not fix) it.
5 A __________ (the boys / go) to bed?
B Yes, they __________ (sleep) for hours.
6 Complete the sentences with the correct present
perfect simple or present perfect continuous
form of the verbs and for or since.
1 Judy _______________ (work) at the children’s
theatre ________ three years now. She’s the
director of the next show.
2 Rick is worried about his exam.
He _______________ (study) ________ 6 a.m.
3 Jack _______________ (earn) €100 ________
he started working in the shop.
4 I _______________ (read) this English
book ________ ages. It’s difficult to read a book
in another language. I don’t know if I’ll finish it.
5 Kayla _______________ (buy) five
dresses ________ April!
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Vocabulary Unit 1
Adjectives: personality Collocations: get and make

1 Find eight adjectives in the wordsearch. 3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of
get or make.
T C O U R A G E O U S U Did you get the feeling that he’s angry with me?
D R E S P O N S I B L E 1 He __________ a good impression on his
E C S Y L O Z Y Y O Z C teachers because he always did his homework
P B I P J U F M U U V A on time.
E Z F T T T M P T H W R 2 She __________ better at chess because she
N H J A L G F A S L Z I practised.
D S U P P O R T I V E N 3 We __________ the most of the day by going for
a walk.
A B X E O I F H C D K G
4 You __________ a promise, so you have to do
B C Z N P N M E D E S T
it.
L H I G Y G A T T Q I Y
E M O P T I M I S T I C Extra vocabulary
I C R U E L F C H R S K
4 Complete the sentences with the words in
2 Complete the sentences with the adjectives from the box.
exercise 1.
currents draw gesture panic raffle
Mia is a really caring person. When I was in salary
hospital, she visited me every day. She brought I won my teddy bear in a raffle last week.
me magazines and stayed to chat to me. 1 A kind word or __________ can make a lonely
1 Don’t hit the dog, Jonathan! Why are you person feel better.
so _______________ ? 2 After the __________ for the raffle, the team
2 You need to be _______________ when you are counted up how much money they had made.
babysitting. Small children can easily get into 3 When Katie saw the mouse in her bedroom, she
trouble. had a __________ attack and screamed.
3 Many teenagers are _______________ about 4 What is the most important things about a job:
the future; they think things will be better twenty the work, the hours or the __________ ?
years from now. 5 Don’t swim in the river. It can be dangerous
4 Matt loves parties and having fun with his friends because there are very strong __________ .
at the weekends. He’s an _______________
person. Useful language
5 When I don’t know what to do, I go to my friend
Rajesh. He always helps me and gives me good 5 Complete the dialogues with the words in
advice – he’s very _______________ . the box.
6 Jasmine always does what she promises. She’s appeal disappointed fascinates
a really _______________ person. just waste when
7 Hannah lied to her parents about hanging out in 1 A Space travel ____________ me. I’d love to
the city centre. Now they won’t let her go out at be an astronaut one day.
weekends, but I don’t feel at all B Yes, it’ll be great ____________ everyone
_______________ because she caused this can travel in space.
problem by not telling the truth! 2 A I was a bit ____________ with the last Star
8 I would like to become a firefighter. I think they Wars film.
are very _______________ people because 3 B Yes, I thought it was a real ____________ of
they go into burning buildings to rescue people. time. I left halfway through.
A Does the new Marvel film ____________ to
you?
B Yes, I ____________ love Spider-Man.