Choose 5 expressing from the list to make short dialogues

Example be/America

A: Have you ever been to America?

B: Yes, I have./No, I haven’t. I’ve never been there.

A: When did you go?

B: Two years ago. I went to Disney-land with my family.

have/an operation lose/your job

be/on TV hear/an opera

write/a love letter see/a horror movie

ride/a motor bike forget/an important birthday

have/an English breakfast sleep/in the open air

try/iced tea sing/in a choir

drive/a van meet/anyone famous

read/a book in a foreign language

win/a competition

Read the situations and write the sentences. Choose the verbs from the list.

1. Mike is looking for his key. He can’t find it. ___________________________________
2. Margaret can’t walk and her leg is in plaster. __________________________________
3. Maria’s English wasn’t very good. Now it’s much better. _________________________
4. Tim didn’t have a beard last month. Now he has a beard. _________________________
5. This morning I was expecting a letter. Now I have it. ____________________________
6. Last week the bus fare was 80 pence. Now it is 90. ______________________________

arrive break go up grow improve lose

Complete the text with the Present Perfect or Past Simple.

Oscar Werbeniuk, who is 61, (1) _____ (live) all his life in the same New Jersey house. He (2) _____ (love) animals, especially cats since he was a child. He (3) _____ (find) his first cat, Tabatha, in the street in 1981, and he (4) _____ (find) another 43 cats since then. But Tabatha – who died in 1990 – (5) _____ (have)babies and Oscar soon (6) _____ (have) more than a hundred cats. For the last fifteen years, there (7) _____ (be) more than two hundred cats in his house. Oscar is lucky because his parents (8) _____ (be) very rich. So he (9) _____ (never/worry) about money. In fact since 1999, Oscar (10) _____ (be) so busy that he (11) _____ (not/leave) his house.

Make up questions.

1. you/find/a new job/yet?
2. she/send/her application form/yet?
3. they/answer/yours e-mail/yet?
4. she/advertise/for/a new assistant/yet?
5. see/each other/today?
6. your assistant/make/a press release?
7. how many/reporters/you/invite/to/the meeting?

5. Put for, since, in or ago i nto gaps.

1. I was born __________ 1961.

2. I went to university ___________ three years.

3. I passed my driving test fifteen years __________.

4. I’ve had a car __________ 1990.

5. Now I’ve got a BMW. I’ve had it __________ two years.

6. I met my wife __________ 1985.

7. We’ve been married __________ nine years.

8. Our first daughter was born six years __________.

9. We’ve lived in the same house __________ 1990.

Note: Make up a similar story of your parents’ (or smb’s) life. Use the Present Perfect and Past Simple.