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The Perfect Tenses

Activity 5.4 (Present Perfect)

Fill the blanks with the present perfect form of the verb.
1. Since 1997, the country ________________ a severe-weather warning system. [have]
2. The country _____________ 15 severe weather events this century. [experience]
3. There _________ fewer weather-related deaths since the warning system was introduced. [be]
4. So far, only 20 people _________ , compared to 250 in the same time period last century. [die]
5. The severe-weather warning system seems to ___________ . [succeed]

Activity 5.5 (Future Perfect)

Predict the future based on the information. Use the key words to write your sentence.
1. News websites are becoming more and more popular, while print newspapers are becoming less
popular. By 2030 / print newspapers / disappear / and / news websites / replace/ them.
Answer: By 2030, print newspapers will have disappeared and news websites will have replaced them.
2. Around 6000 square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest are destroyed every year. Within 40
years / the Amazon rainforest / disappear.
3. Startup.com competes aggressively with a rival company, Dinosaur.com. In ten years /
Startup.com / crush / Dinosaur.com.
4. A company is selling its assets and not creating new ones. In five years· time / the company / sell
/ all its assets / and / it / go bankrupt.
5. These days, Japanese car manufacturers tend to make their cars offshore (in other, cheaper
countries). This trend will continue. By 2040 / all Japanese car manufacturers / move / offshore /
and / all the car factories in Japan / close.
6. Country A has more oil reserves than country B, but it uses them faster. They will
not last for a long time. By 2053 / Country A's oil reserves/ run out.

Activity 5.6 (Past Perfect)

Use this information to complete the sentences on the next page, using the words given.
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1. The injury rate/ be steady at around 20 per year/ when the company/ introduce/
new machines.
Answer: The injury rate had been steady at around 20 per year when the company
introduced new machines.
2. The company/ appoint/ a safety manager/ after the injury rate/ triple.
3. By 1992, the injury rate/ not/ decrease.
4. Although the safety classes/ halve/ the injury rate, they were replaced with a
safety manual in 1995.
5. It seems the safety classes/ were/ very successful. However, in 1993 the injury rate
/be/ still higher than it/ be/ in 1988-89, before introducing the new machines.

Activity 5. 7 (Review)
Use the correct form of the verb in brackets to fill the gaps.
1. The data show that by 2035, the proportion of manufacturing companies based
offshore ____________ 95 per cent. [reach]
2. By 1950, Unifood's income from milk products ____________ all other income. [exceed]
3. From 1980 to 2010, trains experienced a drop in popularity, but in this decade they
____________ popular again. [become]
4. Book sales boomed in 1960 and again in 1980. However, by 1990 they ___________ back down
to 1950 levels. [drop]
5. The conservative estimate is that that, by 2020, fish stocks ___________ by 50 per cent. [deplete]