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2e Broaden your mind

. GRAMMAR

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE with for, since, yet, already
A. Read the dialogue. When B. Read the dialogue and been gone already yet
did Fred move to the city? complete the rules with
A: How long have you had the words in the box. Use in affirmative
this house, Fred? A: Andy is a reporter from sentences and put it between have/has
B: I’ve had it for two years, London and he travels and the past participle.
since I moved to this city, abroad all the time. He Use in questions and
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actually. has already been to the negative sentences and put it at the end
USA and China but he of the sentence.
for + period of time hasn’t been to France yet.
e.g. two years, a week, six months, Use have/has to a place
an hour, five minutes B: Really? Where is he now? when someone is still at that place.
since + a point in time A: He has gone to New York. Use have/has to a place
e.g. Sunday, yesterday, He’s coming back next when someone has returned from that
two o’clock, last May, last week place.
Tuesday.

. PRACTICE . LISTENING
Complete the dialogues with the Present Perfect A. Discuss.
Simple of the verbs in the box and circle the correct • Have you ever lived abroad?
options.
• Would you like to live abroad? Why? / Why not?
be not return not check B. Listen to three people talking about living in
tell call go not see a foreign country. Match the people with the
statements a-d. There is one extra statement
which you do not need to use.
1.
Jodie What’s wrong, Dan? Kate a. has improved his/her Spanish a lot
Dan Where’s Harriet? recently.
Jodie She already / yet. Jake b. took a course but it didn’t help.
Dan From where? Where is she? c. wants to improve his/her Spanish to
Jodie She to the supermarket. make his/her job easier.
Dan But I need the car. I her Sally d. is living in Spain to learn the language.
so many times that I need the car on
Fridays! . SPEAKING
Jodie Why don’t you phone her? A. Discuss.
Dan I already / yet • Do you like learning foreign languages?
her three times but • Is learning English easy for you?
there’s no answer! B. Talk in pairs. Which of these do you think help
2. when learning English? Why? Which ones do
Mike Hey, Sonia. I you for / you do?
since last year. When did you return from • watch films in English without subtitles
New York? • take a (summer) course in an English-
Sonia In August. Didn’t you get my emails? speaking country
Mike I my emails for / since a • visit an English-speaking country for some
month. Sorry. Anyway, let’s go for coffee time
and talk about New York.
Sonia OK. you ever • read books / online articles in English
there? • use the Internet
Mike No, but I want to go. • communicate with people who speak English
• listen to English songs and read the lyrics
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