Grammar section

Dear Sue,
Majorca 1)_______ (be) beautiful! At the moment I 2)_______ (lie) on the beach. The children 3)_______ (play) in the sea. Every evening we 4)_______ (go) to a Spanish restaurant. I 5)_______ (love) Spanish food but Bob 6)_______ (not/eat) it. He 7)_______ (prefer) chips! We really 8)_______ (like) Spain and at the moment we 9)_______ (enjoy) ourselves very much here. I 10)_______ (not/want)
to come back!
Love, Jill.

№14 Use Present Simple, Present Continuous and Present Perfect to complete the letter.

Dear Madam,
My name 1) ________(be) Carol Albert and I 2) _________ (write) to you about the advertisement in today’s newspaper for the post of hotel receptionist. I 3) ________ (leave) school and at present I 4) _________ (study) hotel catering at night school. My typing 5)________ (be) good and I also 6) __________ (speak) two languages, English and Spanish. I 7) _________ (take) courses in Computer studies, Accounting and Office management and I 8)________ (feel) that these courses 9) ________ (give) me a lot of experience for the post you 10) _________ (advertise). One day, I hope to become a hotel manager. I 11)__________ (hope) that you will consider my application. I 12) __________ (enclose) a C.V. with my personal details and other information which I 13) ___________ (think) may interest you. I 14)________ (look) forward to hearing from you very soon.
Yours faithfully,
Carol Albert

№15 Fill in: has been in/ have been in, have been to/ has been to, have gone to/ has gone to.

Gina: Hello, Paul. Are you enjoying yourself in Rome?
Paul: Oh, yes.
Gina: Which places 1)________ you ______ since you arrived?
Paul: Well, I 2) ___________ Rome for two weeks now so I 3) ___________ a lot of places, like the Coliseum, some museums and the Vatican.
Gina: Where are your friends today?
Paul: Mark and Jim 4) ___________ a travel agent’s to buy tickets for the plane and they haven’t come back yet. Mark says he 5) _________ Rome too long. He 6) _________ Capri before but Jim and Sean 7) __________ (not) any islands, so I think we will go to Sardinia. Sean 8) _________ the hotel to sleep.
Gina: Well, I am leaving now. My parents 9) _________ the hospital to see my uncle. He 10)________ hospital for a week. See you later!

№16 Fill in: has been in/ have been in, have been to/ has been to, have gone to/ has gone to.

Editor: Where’s Stevens? I haven’t seen him for days.
Secretary: He 1)_______ Washington to interview Kim Basinger.
Editor: How long 2)_______ he_______ Washington?
Secretary: Three days.
Editor: What about Milton and Knowles?
Secretary: They 3)_______ London. They’re going to interview the Royal Family.
Editor: 4)_______ anyone_______ Paris to talk to Alain Delon?
Secretary: Smith 5)_______ his country house. He interviewed him there yesterday actually. He’s coming back today.

№17 Put the verbs into Past Simple.

Last week we 1)_______ (drive) to London. It 2)_______ (be) a beautiful day. When we 3)_______ (get) there, we 4)_______ (park) the car and 5)_______ (catch) the tube into the center of town. We 6)______ (go) to Oxford street and 7)_______ (spend) a lot of money in the shops. In the afternoon we 8)_______ (see) the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace. There 9)_______ (be) many people there and everybody 10)_______ (wave) at the Guards. Later we 11)_______ (have) a boat ride down the Thames. We 12)_______ (eat) our dinner on the boat and then we 13)_______ (decide) to go home. We all 14)_______ (sleep) on the journey home except Dad.

№18* Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past form.

I remember when I 1) went (go) on holiday abroad for the first time. I 2)_______ (just/ leave) school. I 3)_______ (study) very hard for my final exams and I 4)_______ (feel) that I needed a holiday. A friend of mine 5)_______ (want) to come as well so we 6)_______ (look) at some brochures from the travel agent’s. We 7)_______ (read) for about an hour when my friend 8)_______ (find) the perfect holiday – two weeks in Hawaii. We 9)_______ (be) very excited about it. Finally the day of our holiday 10)_______ (arrive). We 11)_______ (just/ leave) the house when the phone 12)_______ (ring). I 13)_______ (run) back into the house, but the phone 14)_______ (stop) by the time I 15)_______ (reach) it. When we 16)_______ (arrive) at the airport we 17)_______ (sit) in the cafeteria. The airline 18)_______ (just/ make) an announcement. Our flight was delayed for eight hours. We 19)_______ (get up) very early and rushed to the airport, all for nothing.

№19 Put the verbs in brackets into Present Perfect or Past Simple.

John: I don’t know where to go on holiday this year. Have you got any ideas?
Darren: 1)_______ you ever _______(be) to Spain? I 2)_______ (go) to Madrid and Barcelona last year and I really 3) _______ (enjoy) myself.
John: I 4)_______ (spend) two years in Spain while I 5)_______ (be) at University. I 6)_______ (never/ visit) South America, though.
Darren: A friend of mine 7)_______ (work) in Brazil before. I think you 8)_______ (meet) her once. Do you remember Kate?
John: Oh, yes. She 9)_______ (love) it in Brazil. Maybe I’ll talk to her about it.

№20* Put the verbs in brackets into Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous.

(Robinson Crusoe has been stuck on a desert island for the past six months. Here is a letter he wrote and put in a bottle.)