Unit

Discuss the difference in meaning between the pairs of sentences below.

1. a) What are you doing? b) What do you do? 2. a) What are you thinking about? b) What do you think about it? 3. a) He is rude! b) He is being rude!

Match the sentences in box A with those in box B.

A B

1. Where do you come from? 2. Where are you coming back from? 3. Do you see anything strange? 4. Mathew is seeing his friend from Australia tonight. 5. The Joneses are having breakfast. 6. My family has three houses.

a. Are they meeting in a cafe? b. No, it looks OK to me. c. From a meeting. d. Yes, I know you own a lot of property. e. They are eating now. f. From Spain.

Add since or for.

1. He has not been here _______ some time. 2. I have been looking for that key _______ the last half an hour. 3. I haven’t seen Peter _______ he left Rome. 4. They have made considerable progress _______ they invented the new machine. 5. She hasn’t been her usual self _____ the last few days. 6. It hasn’t rained _________ January.

Make sentences by putting the verbs into the present simple, present continuous or present perfect. Add any other words that you need.

1. When / we / board / plane?__________________________________________________ 2. I / keep / to a strict diet / these days __________________________________________ 3. population / our country / grow older / century _________________________________ 4. why / you / wear / your sister’s dress / today? ___________________________________ 5. you / ever / suffer / from toothache? __________________________________________ 6. at the moment / I / share / my bedroom / my brother _____________________________