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Exam link: communication
Talk about problems
8 32 Listen and repeat. Then practise the conversation in pairs.
Present perfect and past simple
Name the tenses.
1 l’ve already bought our tickets.
2 I ordered them Online last night.
3 She hasn’t seen us.
4 I le didn't notice the time.
Complete the rules.
We use the tense to refer to fmished time.
We use the tense when the past still
affects the present.
5 Make five true sentences using the time adverbials in the box.
• ago • already • at one o’clock • ever
• in 2007 • just • last night • never
• on Saturday • recently • so far • yet
• this morning • up to now • yesterday
I started school eight years ago.
I've )ust had lunch.
6 Write sentences. Use the present perfect or the past simple.
1 when/they/start/going out?
When did they start going out?
2 you/ever/fall/in love?
3 they/not/make up/yet
4 he/not/ask/her out yesterday
5 he/phone/her/yet?
6 she/already/send/him six text messages
7 when/they/break up?
8 l/never/ask anybody out
V Ask and answer about the things in the box.
A: Have you ever been to a wedding?
B: Yes. I have. I went to one last year.
A: Whose wedding did you go to?
B: / went to my cousin’s wedding. It was fun.
• go to a wedding • lose something important
• break a bonę • be in a plane/on a ship
• see an elephant • met a famous person
A: You look worried. What’s the matter?
B: l*m a bit nervous about my exams.
A: Really? Why’s that?
B: I haven't done any revision yet.
A: Weil. why don’t we study together this weekend? B: Yes. good idea. Thanks.
Ask about a problem
You look a bit miserable/worried/fed up.
♦ What’s the matter?
Respond
Pm a bit worried abcut my exams.
I dorYt know what to do about my exams,
Pve just had some bad news about my exams.
Suggest and advise
* I see. Weil....
Why don’t we study together this weekend?
: Maybe you should stay in and revise this weekend.
9 Practise similar conversations using the prompts below. Then rnvent two morÄ™ problems.
1 just had an argument with a fnend (talk to him/her)
2 just failed an exam (talk to a teacher)
3 going to a party but have nothing to wear (borrow something)
4 just heard best friend is in hospital (phone his/her parents)
Write
10 Choose one of the problems from Exercise 9. Write the conversation.
Q Extra practice
For morÄ™ practice, go to page 122. <j ^
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may be feeling. They can suggest ideas why. Piay the recordmg and let Ss listen and read. Use a good student to demonstrate how to use the prompts in the box in an open pair with you. Closed pairs can then practise their own dialogues.
9 Elicit an example dialogue for the tirst situation and write prompts on the board. Ss repeat the phrases chorally before attempting further dialogues in pairs. Weaker Ss may need to prepare in writing first. Ask one or two pairs to perform for the class at the end.
Write
10Ss choose a situation and write the dialogue in pairs. Ask a couple of pairs of Ss to read their dialogue aloud.
Extra practice
See page 122 in the SB.
Answer key
2 Have you ever fallen in love? 3 They haven't madę up yet. 4 He didn’t ask her out yesterday. 5 Has he phoned her yet?
6 She’s already sent him six text messages!
7 When did they break up? 8 Pve never asked somebody out.
6 Make it elear to Ss that only one tense is possible.
dialogue aloud and then ask Ss to repeat the dialogue chorally. Pairs can then create their own dialogues using the prompts in the box.
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