HOMEWORK 2

Grammar Practice. Write F it the action is finished. Write U if the action is unfinished or
continuing.

F 1. He’s played with their band for almost ten years.

U 2. Cactano Veloso has made dozens of recordings.

F 3. They’ve never heard of Alexandre Pires.

U 4. We’ve been listening to that CD all day. Let’s play something different.

U 5. Ladysmith Black Mambazo hasn’t been playing many concerts lately.

F 6. Have you ever gone to a classical concert?

F 7. How many times have you heard Carmina Burana?

U 8. They’ve played Brahm’s First Symphony twice this year

Grammar Practice. Complete the biography of Vanessa-Mae with the simple past tense, the
present perfect continuous. Use the present perfect continuous is the action is unfinished or
continuing.

Vanessa-Mae performs music since she was a little girl.

Born in Singapone on October 27, 1978, she have her first the piano lesson at the age of three.
A year later she start taking violin lessons, and when she was just ten years old, she make her
concert debut with the London Philharmonic.

Since then, Vanessa-Mae make numerous classical recordings, but it was but it was in 1994 the
she ember the field of pop music with “The Violin Player” The album immediately become
extremely popular with pop and classic music fans.

In more recent years, she plays with other pop artist such as Annie Lennox, Janet Jackson, and
Prince. Vanessa-Mae ender talk her audiences for over a decade, and she continues to astonish
them with her innovative sound.