Choose the correct alternative in each of these sentences. Then match them to the statements a-i about use of tenses

1. You sit / are sitting in my seat – could you move, please?

2. He went out / has gone out without speaking, and she never saw / has never seen him again.

3. He traveled / was traveling through Greece when he met his future wife.

4. The train had already left / has already left Switzerland when the snow started.

5. I ’ve finished / finished my homework – can we go out now?

6. She read / ’s read the guidebook on Brazil last week because she’s so keen to go there.

7. I ’m visiting / visit my friend in Brazil next week.

8. I ’ve been staying / ’ve stayed in this resort for two weeks, and it’s great!

9. She ’d only lived / ’s been living in the city for a week when she lost her passport.

We use:

a) the past continuous to say that something was in progress at a particular time or event.

b) the past perfect to show that something happened before something else.

c) the present continuous for temporary actions and situations that are currently in progress.

d) the past simple with expressions that refer to a completed period of time, e. g. yesterday, in 2003.

e) the present perfect to indicate that a finished action or event is related to the present.

f) the present continuous for future arrangements.

g) the past simple to talk about the past (unless there is a reason to use a different tense).

h) the present perfect continuous used for an unfinished action continuing into the present.

i) the past perfect continuous to show that one long event happened before another in the past.

Prepare to tell your partners about a travel incident that you have heard of or a time when you had a difficult or unusual travel experience yourself. Write your notes up as a paragraph. Check your tenses, and make sure that they are accurate. Answer any questions they may have.

VOCABULARY 2: DEPENDENT PREPOSITIONS

Adjectives with related meaning may be followed by the same preposition. Match each set of adjectives to one of the prepositions from the box. You will need to use one preposition twice.

Discuss these questions.

1. What do you get worried about?

2. What are you competent at?

3. Who are you most similar to in your family?

Nouns, verbs and adjectives that share the same root may be followed by the same preposition. Complete the sentences with nouns formed from the adjectives in Exercise 1 and add an appropriate preposition.

1. Enforced ……………… ……. friends can ruin relationships when people have to spend a long time apart.

2. What is the actual …………… ……. the situation?

3. Why is there such a …………… …… trendy holiday destinations nowadays? People are obsessed with them!

4. Her extreme ………….. …… flying really restricted the amount of traveling she was able to do.

Some nouns, verbs or adjective that share the same root may be followed by a different preposition. Complete the sentences with nouns formed from the adjectives in Exercise 1 and add an appropriate preposition.

1. There are often many ………….. ………… European languages, which can help people pick them up easily.

2. I wish long haul travelers would show more ………… ………… the environment and fly less.

3. There are far fewer ………….. …………. holiday packages than travel companies want us to believe – I think they are all the same really.

4. He really loves traveling and gets a great deal of …….……. …..… seeing different places.

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