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Practise 1 The present perfect with for and since.

Office ane -Answer the following questions equally shown in the examples:

- Tin can you skate? (iii years)

- Yeah, but I oasis't skated for iii years.

- Could you climb a rope? (I left school)

- Yes, I suppose I could, just I haven't climbed ane since I left school.

1 Can you play chess? (ten years)

2 Can yous sing? (I came to England)

3 Could you lot milk a cow? (I left my male parent's subcontract)

4 Can yous put up a tent? (I went camping ground two years ago)

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5 Can you lot make Yorkshire pudding? (over a year)

6 Can yous read Latin? (I left school)

7 Could you lot bath a baby? (fifteen years)

viii Could you repair a radio? (I left the regular army)

9 Can you lot ski? (my last holiday)

10 Can you read a map? (quite a long time)

eleven Could you make a handbasket? (I was in hospital)

12 Tin can you lot sew together on buttons? (I got married)

13 Tin you drive a car? (over six months)

14 Could yous have someone's temperature? (years)

xv Tin can y'all ride a motor cycle? (I was at the university)

sixteen Can you row a boat? (1977)

17 Tin can you paint in oils? (some fourth dimension)

18 Tin y'all type? (years and years)

Part 2 Rephrase the following sentences, using the present perfect tense with for or since:

I terminal read a newspaper on June 2.

I haven't read a newspaper since June 2.

Information technology is two years since I saw Tom.

I oasis't seen Tom for two years.

xix It's 2 years since I had a puncture.

20 It'due south two months since he earned any money.

21 He last shaved the mean solar day before yesterday.

22 I last drank champagne at my blood brother'south wedding.

23 It'due south 2 years since I was last in Rome.

24 I saw Tom last on his wedding day.

25 I final ate raw fish when I was in Japan.

26 It's years since Mary last spoke French.

27 It's ten weeks since I last had a good dark'south slumber.

28 He concluding paid taxes in 1970.

29 I last ate meat five years agone. (Omit ago.)

30 It'southward 3 months since the windows were cleaned.

31 It's years since I took whatever photographs.

32 I terminal watched Tv set on New Yr's Day.

33 It's 3 months since he wrote to me.

34 I was concluding paid six months ago. (My pay is vi months in deficit.)

35 The last time I was abroad was in the summer of 1978.

36 It's ten years since that house was lived in.

Practice two The present perfect and the elementary past. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: present perfect or elementary past. (In some cases the nowadays perfect continuous is also possible. This is noted in the Key.)

one Paul: I (play) football since I was v years old.

Tom: You (play) since you lot (come) to England?

Paul: Oh yes. I (play) quite a lot. I (join) a lodge the day subsequently I (arrive).

2 Tom: Yous (play) any matches?

Paul: Nosotros (play) about ten. We have two more to play. We (have) a very good flavor, nosotros (win) all our matches so far, though we (not really deserve) to win the concluding 1.

3 Tom: I (play) football when I (be) at school simply when I (leave) school I. (drop) it and (take) up golf.

4 Ann: Hi, Jack! I (not see) yous for ages! Where yous (be)?

Jack: I (be) in Switzerland. I (hateful) to send yous a postcard only I (not have) your address with me.

Ann: Never listen. You (have) a good time in Switzerland? How long you (exist) there?

Jack: I (exist) there for a calendar month. I only just (get) back. Yes, I (bask) it thoroughly. I (ski) all day and (dance) all dark.

5 Ann: I (ski) when I (be) at the university, just I (break) a leg five years ago and since and then I (non practice) any.

half dozen When I outset (come) to this house, it (be) a very quiet area. Merely since so a new housing estate (be) congenital and it (go) very noisy.

7 My son (non start) work yet. He'due south still at the High Schoolhouse.

- How long he (be) at school?

- He (be) at the Loftier School for vi years; before that he (spend) five years at the Primary School in Windmill Street.

8 I only (hear) that Peter is in Australia.

- Oh, you (non know)? He (fly) out at the beginning of the month.

- Yous (hear) from him? Does he like the life?

- Yes, I (become) a letter last calendar week. He (tell) me well-nigh his job. Merely he (non say) whether he (like) the life or not. Peradventure it'due south too soon to say. He only (be) at that place thJee weeks.

9 I (not know) you (be) left-handed.

- I'1000 non left-handed; but my oil-heater (explode) yesterday and I (burn) my correct hand, so I have to employ my left.

This bicycle (be) in our family unit for fourteen years. My father (use) it for the showtime five years, my brother (ride) information technology for the adjacent v, and I Xhaye) it for the last iv.

11 I hear that your MP, Mr Simpson, (make) a very clever oral communication terminal night. How long he (be) your MP?

- Oh, we simply (have) him since Jan. His predecessor Mr Allen (resign) all of a sudden because of ill-health and there (be) a by-election.

12 I hear that Mr Jones (leave).

- Yes, he (exit) terminal calendar week.

- Anybody (be) appointed to take his place?

- I believe several men (apply) for the job simply then far cypher (exist) decided.

thirteen Peter (meeting Ann at the airport): Hello, Ann. You (have) a good trip?

Ann: The bodily flying (be) lovely, i of the all-time I (take) ever, but information technology (take) ages to get into the plane. Outset they (think) that one of us (be) a hijacker and they (search) the states all for firearms; and so they (announce) that one of the engines (be) faulty. We finally (have off) an hr after.

xiv Peter: How y'all (spend) this extra hour before take-off)?

Ann: Oh, they (take) usa to the restaurant and (feed) u.s.a. and nosotros (walk) most and (buy) things we (not need). The time (laissez passer) all right.

15 Y'all (volume) your hotel room still?

- Well, I (write) to the hotel concluding week just they (not answer) nevertheless.

sixteen Peter (meeting Paul unexpectedly in London): Hello, Paul! I (not know) y'all (exist) here.

Paul: Oh, I (be) here nearly two months. I (arrive) on the 6th of Jan.

17 Peter: When we final (meet) you (say) that nothing would induce you to come to England. What (make) you lot change your mind?

Paul: I (discover) that I (demand) English for my work and this (seem) the quickest mode of learning it.

18 Peter: You (know) whatever English when y'all first (go far) here?

Paul: No, I (not know) a discussion.

19 Ann (to Yvonne, who is going to English language classes): How long you (learn) English?

Yvonne: I (learn) off and on for most 5 and a half years. (Use the continuous grade.)

xx I (begin) English at secondary schoolhouse and (exercise) it for three years.

Then I (drop) it for a year and (forget) most of information technology. Then I (spend) 2 years at a secretarial college, where I (written report) commercial English language, an d for the last six months I (study) in London.

21 At 4 p.m. my neighbour (ring) up and (say), 'Is Tom with y'all?' Tom, her son, (spend) most of his time in my garden playing with my children, so whenever she (not be able) to discover him she (ring) me.

' I'm agape I (not see) him today,' I (say). 'But my children (get) to the beach this morning and (not come up) back notwithstanding. Maybe he (become) with them.'

22 I only (accept) my first driving lesson.

- How it (get)? You (enjoy) it?

- Well, I not actually (hit) anything simply I (make) every other possible error.

23 Onetime Ben (sell) newspapers just inside the station entrance, and my father always (buy) his evening newspaper from him as he (leave) the station on his fashion home. But 1 mean solar day my father (arrive) home without his paper. 'Ben (not be) in that location this evening,' he (say). 'I hope he (non be taken) sick.'

24 On Saturday afternoon I (run into) Frederick sitting in his garden.

' I (think) you (piece of work) on Saturdays,' I (say).

' I (work) this morning,' (explicate) Frederick, 'simply at lunch time the boss (go) off to play golf game and (tell) us all to go home. Information technology's virtually fourth dimension he (give) the states a whole Saturday off actually. I (piece of work) practically every Saturday since the beginning of the twelvemonth.'

25 Ann: Y'all (be) to Hampton Court?

Jane: Yes, I (go) there last calendar week. The tulips (be) wonderful.

Ann: You (go) by car?

Jane: No, I (go) with my English class. We (hire) a coach.

26 Ann: Where else you (exist) to since you (come) to England?

Jane: Oh, I (exist) to Stratford and Coventry and Oxford and Canterbury.

27 Ann: You (run into) a lot. When you (go) to Stratford?

Jane: I (go) terminal week. The people I work for (take) me.

28 Ann: You (see) a play at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre when you lot (exist) at Stratford?

Jane: Yes, nosotros (see) Macbeth. We were very lucky. Nosotros just (walk) in and (ask) if they (accept) whatever returned tickets, and the girl at the box office (say), 'Yes, a human merely (render) iii stalls.'

29 Ann: You lot (be) to Wales?

Jane: No, I (be) to Scotland but I (not be) to Wales. I'd like to become.

xxx Peter: You (meet) any proficient films lately?

Ann: Yes, I (become) to the National Motion picture Theatre last week and (encounter) a Japanese moving-picture show.

Peter: You (similar) information technology?

An due north: Yes, I (honey) it, simply of class I (non sympathise) a word.

31 Tom: I hear that Mr Benson merely (die). You (know) him quite well, didn't yous?

Jack: Yes. We (work) for the same visitor for x years. I (not see) and so much of him afterward he (leave) the company just we (keep) in touch.

32 Ann (call up) the garage (be) empty, and (plough) off the lights. 'Hey!' (shout) Paul from nether the car. 'I'm sorry, Paul,' (say) Ann, 'I (non know) y'all (be) there.'

33 Male parent: Tom (not come) back yet?

Female parent: Yes, he (come) in an hour ago. He (get) straight to bed. Father: Funny. I (non hear) him.

34 Paul: That's a live wire. It just (give) me a stupor!

Ann: Nonsense! I merely (touch) it and I (non feel) annihilation!

When Paul (come) into the room, Ann was sitting in an armchair simply behind the door. Paul, not noticing Ann, (go) to the window and (look) out. Ann (cough) and Paul (spin) circular. 'Howdy, Ann!' he (exclaim), 'I (not see) you!'

Jack: You just (concord) to get, so why aren't you getting ready?

Peter: But I (not realize) that you lot (want) me to first at once!

Practice 3 The present perfect and the simple past. Put the verbs in brackets into the right tense: present perfect or elementary past.

1 I (buy) a new house last yr, simply I (non sell) my old business firm yet, so at the moment I accept two houses.

ii When Ann (exist) on her way to the station it (brainstorm) to rain. Ann (run) dorsum to her flat for her umbrella, merely this (make) her late for her train.

three She (catch) the side by side train only it (non become) in till 9.00, so she (arrive) at her office ten minutes late.

4 Her boss (look) up as she (come) in. 'Y'all (be) belatedly every morning this week,' he (growl).

five At 7 a.m. Charles (band) Peter and (say), 'I'm going line-fishing, Peter. Would you like to come up?'

' Only it's so early,' (say) Peter. 'I (not have) breakfast yet. Why y'all (not tell) me concluding night?'

6 Tom (meet) Paul at lunch time and (say), 'I (not see) y'all at the jitney cease this morning. You lot (miss) the bus?'

' I (not miss) information technology,' (reply) Paul. 'I (not miss) a bus for years. But this forenoon George (give) me a lift.'

vii Ann (go) to Canada six months agone. She (work) in Canada for a while and so (go) to the United States.

8 Mary (be) in Japan for two years. She is working there and likes it very much.

- How she (go)?

- She (go) by air.

ix When I (buy) my new house I (ask) for a phone. The Post Office (tell) me to wait, merely I (wait) a year at present and my phone all the same (not come).

10 Bill usually has breakfast at 8.00. Yesterday at 8.30 Peter (come across) Nib and (offer) him an apple. 'No, thanks/ (say) Bill. 'I just (take) breakfast.'

11 Just as Ann (go far) at the airfield a aeroplane (land) and a daughter (climb) out. To her surprise Ann (recognize) her cousin, Lucy. 'Hullo, Lucy,' she (exclaim). 'I (not know) that you (know) how to fly a plane.'

' I only just (acquire),' (say) Lucy. 'I (get) solo for the starting time time last calendar week.'

12 Peter (try) to come in quietly merely his female parent (hear) him and (call) out, 'Where yous (be)? Your supper (be) in the oven for an hour.'

13 You (be) to the theatre lately?

- Yeah, I (go) to Othello last calendar week.

- Yous (like) it?

- Yes, merely I (not see) very well. I (be) right at the back.

xiv Ann (coming out of a bookshop): I just (purchase) a copy of David Copperfield. You lot (read) it?

Mary: As it happens it is the only one of Dickens'due south books that I (not read). I (not even see) the pic.

xv You (exist) to Cambridge?

- Yes, I (be) there last calendar month.

- How y'all (get) there?

- My blood brother (take) me in his car.

sixteen Y'all (see) Philip lately? I (band) his flat several times last calendar week but (get) no answer.

- Oh, he (be) in America for the last month. He (fly) out on the starting time for a conference and then (decide) to stay for six weeks.

- You (hear) from him?

- Aye, I (get) a letter before long later he (make it).

17 How long y'all (be) in your present chore?

- I (be) there for half-dozen months.

- And what you (practise) before that?

- Earlier that I (piece of work) for Jones and Visitor.

18 How long yous (work) for Jones and Company?

- I (work) for them for two years.

- Y'all (similar) working for them?

- No, I (not like) it at all.

- Then why you lot (stay) and so long?

nineteen We unremarkably go out on Saturday evenings, simply last Saturday (exist) so wet that we (stay) in and (play) cards.

- What you (play)?

- We (play) poker. I (lose) fifty pence.

xx When you (begin) school?

- I (begin) school when I (exist) five. I (get) to a main schoolhouse first. I (stay) at that place for six years and so I (go) to a comprehensive school.

21 When I (be) seventeen I (get-go) my academy course.

- When yous (go) your degree?

- Oh, I (not get) my degree all the same; I'm still at the academy. I only (be) there for ii years.

22 Tom (go out) the house at 8.20. At 8.25 the phone in Tom's business firm (ring), Tom's wife, Mary, (answer) it. 'Could I speak to Tom, please?' (say) the caller.

' I'm agape he just (go) out', (say) Mary.

23 Y'all (be) to Cornwall?

- Yes, I (be) there last Easter.

- Yous (go) by train?

- No, I (hitch-hike).

24 I (non see) Charles for some time.

- Exist (be) sick, poor chap. He (collapse) at work a fortnight agone and (be taken) to hospital. They (send) him abode after ii days just he (not crane) back to work yet.

25 There (be) a very good programme on Television set terminal night. Y'all (meet) it?

- No. I (accept) my set back to the store last week considering there (be) and so ranch distortion; and they (say) it (demand) a new office. They (not exist able) to get the new role so far, so I (not watch) boob tube for about ten days.

26 You (ever) be to France?

- Yep, I (spend) last July and August in Grenoble. I (become) to improve my French but everyone I (encounter) (want) to amend his English and then I (not get) much do.

27 The postman commonly comes between eight.00 and ix.00 in the morning. At eight.45 a.m. yesterday Ann (say), 'Are there any letters for me?'

I don't know,' (say) Mary. 'The postman (not come up) yet.'

At 11 a.m. Jack, Mary'southward husband, (band) from his part to ask if there (be) any letters for him. 'No,' (say) Mary. 'Nobody (get) letters today. The postman (not come).'

28 Mr Speed, Ann'due south employer, (dictate) three letters and (tell) Ann to type them as before long as possible. One-half an hour later he (ring) Ann's part. 'You (finish) those letters yet?' he (enquire).

' Well,' (say) Ann, 'I (do) the letter to Mr Jones, and I'thou at present typing the one to Mr Robinson, but I (not start) the one to Mr Smith yet.'

29 Y'all (find) out yet about the trains to Liverpool?

- No. I (band) the station last dark but the man who (answer) the phone (not seem) to exist sure of the times. He (say) something well-nigh a new timetable.

- Simply the new timetable (exist) in functioning for 3 weeks!

30 Tom and Jack work in different offices but get to work in the aforementioned train. One evening Tom's married woman (say), 'Jack (move) into his new house yet?' 'I don't know,' (say) Tom, 'I (not run across) Jack today. He (not exist) on the train.'

31 Where yous (be)?

- I (exist) shopping in Oxford Street.

- So I suppose you (buy) shoes?

- Yes. I (detect) a shop where they were having a sale and I (get) 3 pairs.

32 In the evenings I oft play chess with my side by side door neighbour. I (play) chess with him always since I (come) to live hither ten years ago. He (exist) here all his life; he (inherit) the firm from his father, another great chess player.

- You lot ever (play) chess with the father?

- We (play) once or twice but he (die) a twelvemonth after I (make it).

33 I tin't find my gloves. Y'all (see) them?

- Yes, you lot (leave) them in the motorcar yesterday. I (put) them back in your drawer.

34 I hope you're enjoying your visit to England, You (encounter) any Englishmen nevertheless?

- Yes, I (run across) a man called Smith at a political party last dark.

- What you (talk) well-nigh?

- Nosotros (talk) near the weather.

35 Mrs Jones: For years I (practice) all my washing by paw; then last yr I (buy) a washing machine and I must say it (make) washing twenty-four hours much less exhausting. It only takes me an hour now.

Mrs White: I don't like washing machines. I always (practise) my washing past hand and I intend to go on doing it. I always (observe) it very satisfying piece of work.

36 Tom: Don't yous think it's time we (have) something different for Sunday dinner?

Ann: Just we (accept) roast beefiness for Sun dinner ever since we (get) : married. Your female parent (tell) me that you (be) particularly addicted of roast beef.

Tom: But my mother (be) dead for v years and in those five years my tastes (modify).

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Exercise ane Part i one I haven't played for ten years. ii I haven't sung since I came three I haven't milked one since 41 oasis't put ane upwards since 5 I oasis't made one for 6 I haven't read any since 7 I oasis't bathed a baby for 8 ane oasis't repaired one since 9 I haven't skiied since. 10 I oasis't read i for 11 I haven't made one since 12 I haven't sewn any on since 13 I haven't driven (one) for fourteen I haven't taken a temperature for 15 I oasis't ridden one since 161 haven't rowed since 17 I haven't painted/done any painting for eighteen I haven't typed for Part 2 19 I haven't had a puncture for 20 He hasn't earned any money for 21 He hasn't shaved since 22 I haven't drunk champagne since 23 I oasis't been in Rome for 24 I oasis't seen Tom since 25 I haven't eaten raw fish since 26 Mary hasn't spoken French for years 27 I haven't had a good night's sleep for 28 He hasn't paid taxes since 29 I haven't eaten meat for 30 The windows haven't been cleaned for 311 haven't taken any photographs for years. 32 I oasis't watched Goggle box since 33 He hasn't written to me for 34 I oasis't been paid for 35 I haven't been abroad since 36 That house hasn't been lived in for Practise 2 1 take played/have been playing; Have you played, came; have played; joined, arrived ii Accept you played; take played; take had, take won, didn't really deserve 3 played, was, left, dropped, took. 4 haven't seen; have you lot been; I've been; meant, hadn't/didn't have; Did you take/Had you lot, were; was; take simply just got; enjoyed; skiied, danced. 5 skiied, was, bankrupt, haven't done 6 came, was; has been built, has go seven hasn't started; has he been, has been, spent 8 have just heard; didn't you know; flew; Have you heard; got; told; didn't say, liked; has but been nine didn't know, were; exploded, burnt ten has been; used, rode, accept had 11 made; has he been; nosotros have only had; resigned, was 12 has left; left; Has anybody been appointed; have applied/practical, has been decided 13 Did you take/Accept you had; was, have ever had, took; idea, was, searched, announced, was; took off 14 did you spend; took, fed, walked, bought, didn't need; passed xv Take you booked; wrote, haven't answered 16 didn't know you were; have been; arrived 17 met, said; made, institute, needed, seemed 18 Did you know, arrived; didn't know xix take you learnt/been learning; have been learning 20 began, did; dropped, forgot; spent, studied, have been studying/take studied. 21 rang, said; spent, couldn't/wasn't able to, rang; haven't seen, said; went, oasis't come; went 22 have just had; did information technology go; did you lot enjoy; didn't actually hit, made 23 sold, bought, left; arrived; wasn't, said; hasn't been taken 24 saw; thought, worked, said; worked, explained, went, told; gave; have worked 25 Accept y'all been; went; were; Did you go; went; hired 26 accept you lot been, came; accept been 27 accept seen; did you go; went; took 28 Did yous run across, were; saw; walked, asked, had, said, has just returned 29 Have you been; have been; oasis't been xxx Have you seen; went, saw; Did you lot like; loved, didn't understand 31 has just died; knew; worked; didn't see, left, kept 32 idea, was, turned; shouted; said, didn't know, were 33 Hasn't Tom come; came; went; didn't hear 34 has just given; have just touched, didn't feel 35 came; went; looked; coughed, spun; exclaimed, didn't encounter 36 you have just agreed; didn't realize, wanted Do 3 1 bought, haven't sold 2 was, began; ran, made three caught, didn't make it, arrived 4 looked up, came; have been, growled 5 rang, said; said, haven't had; didn't you tell 6 met, said, didn't come across; Did you miss; didn't miss, replied; haven't missed; gave 7 went; worked, went 8 has been; did she go; went 9 bought, asked; told, have waited/been waiting, hasn't come x met, offered; said; have merely had 11 arrived, landed, climbed out; recognized; exclaimed; didn't know, knew; have only just learnt, said; went 12 tried, heard, chosen out; have yous been; has been 13 Have you been; went; Did y'all similar; didn't see; was 14 have only bought; Have you read; haven't read; haven't even seen 15 Have y'all been; was; did you get; took xvi Have you seen; rang, got; has been; flew, decided; Take you lot heard; got, arrived 17 have yous been; have been; did yous do/were you doing; worked/was working eighteen did you piece of work; worked; Did you like; didn't similar; did you stay 19 was, stayed, played; did you play; played; lost 20 did you lot begin; began, was; went; stayed, went 21 was, started; did y'all go; oasis't got; take simply been 22 left; rang; answered; said; has just gone, said 23 Have you been; was; Did yous get; hitch-hiked 24 haven't seen; has been sick; collapsed, was taken; sent, hasn't come 25 was; Did you see; took, was, said, needed; oasis't been able, oasis't watched 26 Have you lot ever been; spent; went, met, wanted, didn't get 27 said; said; hasn't come; rang, were; said; got; didn't come 28 dictated, told; rang; Have you finished, asked; said, have done, haven't started 29 Have you found out; rang, answered, didn't seem; said; has been xxx said, Has Jack moved; said, didn't see; wasn't 31 have yous been; have been; bought/accept bought; found, got 32 have played, came; has been, inherited; Did you e'er play; played, died, arrived 33 Accept you seen; left; put 34 Have y'all met; met; did you talk; talked 35 did, bought, has made; have always done, have ever found 36 had; take had, got; told, were; has been, have changed

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