EXTRA PRACTICE
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G1
1
Write the verbs in brackets in the past
continuous or the past simple.
When I
1
(study) at university, I took a part-time
job as a security guard at a factory to earn some extra
money. I often
2
(work) at night, and one evening
I
3
(check) the warehouse when I heard a noise.
I was really scared so I
4
(call) the police. They
arrived and while they
5
(search) the area they
found someone asleep in a small cupboard next to the
warehouse. The person
6
(be) the daytime
security guard, who
7
(live) in the factory because
he couldn’t afford to rent a flat. He
8
(wear)
pyjamas produced in the factory. The factory owners
were furious at first and
9
(plan) to sack the young
man, but in the end they found him a cheap flat and he
10
(keep) his job.
G2
2
Match the sentence halves.
1
By the time they got to the cinema
2
He stayed out late
3
By the end of his first year at university
4
I’d just gone to sleep
5
After I’d booked the tickets
a
after I’d told him not to.
b
when the phone rang and woke me up.
c
the film had already started.
d
she changed her mind and said she wanted to eat
out instead.
e
he’d already decided he didn’t want to be a doctor.
G1, 2
3
Choose the correct tense.
1
We launched the second version once we
had seen / were seeing
how successful the first
one was.
2
By the time he
was applying / ’d applied
, the job
had already gone.
3
He called while I
tried / was trying
to finish this
essay.
4
After he
had invested / was investing
more money,
the business took off.
5
The entrepreneur
gave / had given
another billion
dollars to charity after he had already given three
billion.
6
We didn’t need to clean the house, because he
had already done / already did
it.
7
I studied business in the evening while I
was working / had worked
in a kitchen.
8
She left before anyone
had had / was having
a
chance to explain the situation.
9
The business
went / was going
bankrupt last month
and they couldn’t save it.
10
All last year, the company
had looked / was looking
for ways to survive the crisis.
G2
4
Speaking practice
Tell a partner about
yourself, using the phrases below.
By the age of five, I had …
By the age of ten, I had …
By the age of fifteen, I had …
KL
5
Complete the sentences with the words in
the box.
placing would sounds afraid feel
paid check
1
How many
you like to order?
2
We are thinking of
a large order.
3
I’m
that would be very difficult.
4
What if we
earlier?
5
Let me
if I understand you.
6
How do you
about that?
7
That
fine.
V1
6
Complete the words.
1
How many s
do you have working here?
2
The first rule of business is that the c
is
always right.
3
How much money did you i
in the company?
4
We made a huge p
last year.
5
Malcolm is my p
in the business.
6
The p
of computers keeps going down.
7
This government keeps putting up t
.
8
It’s much cheaper to buy products from a w
than from a shop.
V2
7
Choose the correct verb(s). There may be
more than one possible answer.
1
make
/
go out of
/
found
business
2
launch
/
do
/
go into
a company
3
introduce
/
found
/
launch
a product
4
make
/
go into
/
launch
a profit
5
reduce
/
make
/
run
costs
6
go into
/
set up
/
make
another branch
