- •Introduction
- •1.1 Rooms and furniture
- •1.2 Where things are Practice
- •1.4 Services
- •1.5 Asking about services Practice
- •1.6 Amenities
- •1.7 Talking about amenities Free practice
- •1.8 Along the coast
- •2.1 Will & going to
- •2.2 Making decisions Practice
- •2.3 Changing your mind Practice
- •2.4 Intentions and plans
- •2.5 Making money
- •2.6 Arrangements
- •2.7 Your own plans Free practice
- •In groups, talk about your own arrangements and plans for the future. Talk about:
- •2.8 A celebration Listening
- •3.1 Jobs Presentation and practice
- •3.2 What's your job? Practice
- •3.3 Places and people Practice
- •3.4 Your own job Free practice
- •3.5 Daily routine
- •3.6 Precise frequency
- •3.7 All in a day's work: the passive
- •3.8 A life in the day of... Reading
- •3.9 Talking to janet and warren Free practice
- •4.1 Prepositions of direction Presentation
- •4.2 Where do they go? Practice
- •4.3 How do you do it? Practice
- •4.4 Describe and draw Practice
- •4.5 Giving directions Presentation
- •4.6 Finding your way Practice
- •4.7 Your own area Free practice
- •4.8 Making puppets Listening
- •5.1 Relating past events
- •5.2 Before, after & while Practice
- •5.3 First experiences Practice
- •5.4 Life story Writing
- •5.5 Past times
- •5.6 Past events: the passive
- •5.7 Test your memory: quiz Free practice
- •5.8 Famous lives
- •6.1 Uses of the present continuous Presentation
- •6.2 What are they doing? Practice
- •6.3 See for yourself
- •6.4 Describe and choose Practice
- •6.5 Long-term changes Free practice
- •6.6 Current activities Practice
- •6.7 Reading game:
- •6.8 What’s going on?
- •6.9 A telephone call
- •Interviewing famous people
- •7.1 Asking people to do things
- •7.2 Getting people to stop Presentation and practice
- •7.3 Request notes Writing
- •7.4 Asking for permission
- •7.5 Making offers
- •7.6 Reporting offers
- •7.7 Problems Free practice
- •7.8 Great bores of today
- •8.1 Making preparations
- •8.2 Preparations and results Practice
- •8.3 Leaving notes Writing
- •8.4 The present perfect continuous Presentation
- •8.5 Recent activities Practice
- •8.6 Recent activities and achievements Practice
- •8.7 A busy time Writing
- •8.8 Recent developments Free practice
- •8.9 Summer jobs Listening
- •9.1 Comparison of adjectives
- •9.2 Significant differences Practice
- •9.3 Which would you rather?
- •9.4 Comparison of adverbs
- •9.5 Comparisons involving verbs Presentation and practice
- •9.6 Salary scales Free practice
- •9.7 Sun and skin
- •9.8 Advertisements
- •10.1 Used to
- •10.2 Life in the past
- •10.3 Remembering the past
- •10.5 The present perfect passive
- •10.6 Changes of habit Practice
- •10.7 Modern developments
- •10.8 Hallowe’en
- •11.1 Degrees of enjoyment Presentation
- •11.2 Responding to suggestions Practice
- •11.3 Preferences
- •11.4 Your own likes and dislikes Free practice
- •11.5 Things that happen to you
- •11.6 Types of people
- •11.7 Preferred life styles: like to
- •11.8 Fond of flying
- •12.1 Events and circumstances
- •12.2 Circumstances and consequences Practice
- •12.3 Headline news
- •12.4 Experiences
- •12.5 Evidence of the senses Presentation
- •12.6 Witnesses Practice
- •12.7 Rupert and the space pirates Writing
- •12.8 The ghost of fernie castle
- •13.1 Leisure activities: adverbs
- •13.3 How much? Practice
- •13.4 Kinds of people Free practice
- •13.5 Skills Presentation
- •13.6 Asking favours Practice
- •13.7 Jobs
- •13.8 Your own leisure activities and skills
- •13.9 Chips with everything
- •14.1 Suggestions and advice
- •14.2 Alternative solutions Practice
- •14.3 Problems Free practice
- •14.4 Taking precautions Presentation and practice
- •14.5 Just in case
- •14.6 Road signs: warnings Practice
- •14.7 General advice
- •14.8 Visiting britain
- •15.1 Origin and duration
- •15.2 Asking questions Practice
- •15.3 Points and periods Practice
- •15.4 ‘Since’ with clauses Presentation and practice
- •15.5 Talking about yourselves Free practice
- •15.6 The last time Presentation
- •15.7 When did you last...? Practice
- •15.8 Lazy days Reading
- •15.9 Personality quiz
- •16.2 Whole and parts Presentation and practice
- •16.3 Precise location Practice
- •16.4 Location quiz Practice
- •16.5 Describing places and things Free practice
- •16.6 Geographical location
- •16.7 Describing countries
- •16.8 Skiing in scotland Listening
- •17.1 Discovering similarities Presentation and practice
- •17.2 Similarities and differences Practice
- •17.3 The same thing in a different way Practice
- •17.4 Both & neither Presentation and practice
- •17.5 Identifying features Presentation and practice
- •17.6 Tastes in common Free practice
- •17.7 Classifying Presentation and practice
- •17.8 Similar but different
- •17.9 Colloquial and written arabic
- •18.1 Obligation and permission Presentation
- •18.2 Doctor’s orders Practice
- •18.3 Notices Practice
- •18.4 Make & let
- •18.5 Past obligations Free practice
- •18.6 Freedom of choice Presentation
- •18.7 It’s up to you Practice
- •18.8 Away from home
- •18.9 Coal mines
- •19.1 Degrees of probability
- •19.2 Reassuring predictions Practice
- •19.3 If & unless Practice
- •19.5 Going to
- •19.6 Will be doing & will have done
- •19.8 Postscript to the future
- •20.1 Identifying types
- •20.2 The lost property office Practice ы
- •20.3 What do they do? relative clauses
- •20.4 Oneupmanship Practice
- •20.5 Wedding presents Free practice
- •20.7 Asking for things you need Practice
- •20.8 Definitions quiz Free practice
- •20.9 A difficult choice
- •21.1 Too & enough Presentation
- •21.2 The wrong man for the job Practice patience
- •21.3 Linking sentences Presentation and practice
- •21.4 Useless possessions Practice
- •21.5 Faults and remedies
- •21.6 So & such Presentation
- •21.7 Reading game: so & such Practice
- •21.8 Holidays
- •21.9 The ugly nature of earth’s twin sister
- •22.1 Setting a scene Presentation
- •22.2 Temporary activities
- •22.3 Scenes from the past Practice
- •22.4 Striking scenes Free practice
- •22.5 The past perfect tense
- •22.6 Previous events
- •22.7 Memories Free practice
- •22.8 Morning call
- •23.1 What’s wrong? Presentation and practice
- •23.2 Should & if
- •23.3 Irritating behaviour
- •23.4 Recriminations Free practice
- •23.5 Past mistakes Presentation and practice
- •23.6 Events and circumstances
- •23.7 Carnival
- •23.8 Whose fault? Free practice
- •24.1 Kinds of explanation
- •24.2 Giving reasons Practice
- •24.3 General purpose
- •24.4 Causes and results
- •24.5 Explanations quiz Free practice
- •24.6 Not what you’d expect Presentation and practice
- •24.7 Reading game: because of & in spite of Practice
- •24.8 Out of the ordinary Free practice
- •24.9 Spokes
- •1.1 Rooms and furniture
- •1.7 Talking about amenities
- •2.4 Intentions and plans
- •5.1 Relating past events
- •7.6 Reporting offers
- •8.4 The present perfect continuous
- •10.3 Remembering the past
- •11.3 Preferences
- •12.4 Experiences
- •13.3 How much?
- •13.4 Kinds of people
- •14.3 Problems
- •15.1 Origin and duration
- •17.6 Tastes in common
- •18.6 Freedom of choice
- •19.1 Degrees of probability
- •20.2 The lost property office
- •21.5 Faults and remedies
- •22.1 Setting a scene
- •22.7 Memories
- •23.5 Past mistakes
- •24.4 Causes and results
15.1 Origin and duration
Presentation
You will hear three short dialogues in which people talk about when they started doing things and how long they’ve been doing them. For each dialogue write down:
the question beginning with the words given
what the speakers say using the words in brackets
Dialogue 1
Question: How long ...............................................................................?
Speaker i: .................................................................................................(last term)
Speaker 2: ................................................................................................. (two years)
Dialogue 2
Question: When ...................................................................................... ?
Speaker i: ................................................................................................. (few weeks)
Speaker 2: ................................................................................................. (1970)
Dialogue 3
Question: How long.................................................................................?
Speaker 1: ................................................................................................. (six months)
Speaker 2: ................................................................................................. (a year)
1 a) How do we use the Present Perfect Continuous with for and since ?
b) How are for and since different ?
2 a) How do we use the Past Simple with ago and in?
b) How are ago and in different?
3 In dialogue 3, why does the speaker say ‘have known’, and not ‘have been knowing’ ?
Practice
Answer the questions below, and add a sentence using either for/since or ago/in.
1 Do you play cards ? play tennis ? play ............................................................... ?
2 Can you swim? ride a bicycle? ............................................................................ ?
3 Do you know your next-door neighbour ? your local butcher ? ........................... ?
15.2 Asking questions Practice
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- Really ? How long have you been a member ?
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- Oh yes?
When
How long ago
did you join
Ask similar questions about the following, using (a) How long ... ? (b) When/How long ago ... ?
Somebody tells you that:
1. he drives 6. there’s a new play on at the local theatre
2. he’s got a dog 7. he’s out of work at the moment
3. he has piano lessons 8. his daughter lives in Berlin
4. his parents are divorced 9. the children are in bed
5. there’s a telegram for you from Paris