Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

0 I don’t often (not\often) wear make-up.

1 How long __________ (you/know) about this problem?

2 How often __________ (you/argue) with your friends?

3 How many years __________ (you/learn) English?

4 He __________ (be/never) late for meetings.

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5 I __________ (be) in this class for six months.

6 She __________ (write) books since she was fourteen.

5 Complete the text with one word in each gap.

Dear Sir/Madam,

My nine year old daughter ⁰____ has _ __ been a member of the Heartthrobs fan club ¹__________ three months now but she still hasn’t received the free autographed poster you promised. I have ²__________ to you twice already but we haven’t heard anything ³__________ you sent her membership number and magazine.

My daughter doesn’t want to write to you ⁴__________ because she’s afraid that the group will hate her for complaining. However I think she has been ⁵__________ long enough for her poster. She ⁶__________ usually a happy child but she has become more and more upset recently.

I hope you will send the poster soon.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. J. Biggs

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Listening Skills

1 CD Track 2 Listen to a radio interview with a member of a club. Circle the correct answers.

1 The guest’s daughter

a belongs to a fan club.

b is a fan of PG Wodehouse.

c has got lots of posters.

d is fourteen years old.

2 The guest thinks that a fan club and appreciation society

a are a good way to contact people who share your interests.

b are exactly the same as each other.

c are completely different from each other.

d are a good way to find out things about the person you are interested in.

3 PG Wodehouse books

a are old-fashioned.

b are still true to life today.

c were never true to life.

d will become outdated soon.

4 The presenter

a has read all of PG Wodehouse’s books.

b has read some of PG Wodehouse’s books.

c doesn’t like PG Wodehouse.

d has never heard of PG Wodehouse before.

5 Members of the society

a can meet once a year.

b talk about cricket.

c eat plums.

d have to sing songs.

6 The guest and his wife

a first met in 1986.

b fell in love the first time they met.

c got married a year after they first met.

d fell in love the second time they met.

7 We know that the guest’s children

a are both reading PG Wodehouse books at the moment.

b aren’t reading any PG Wodehouse books at the moment.

c are difficult teenagers.

d don’t like their parents.

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Communication

1 Complete the dialogues with the words from the box.

opinion / honest / ask / reason / mean / thing / seems / far / frankly

In my ⁰____ opinion ,___ the scouts are a bit out of date nowadays. ¹_______________, I don’t know why any teenager would want to join them. I ²_______________ tying knots and making camp fires is all a bit old-fashioned, isn’t it? If you ³_______________ me, you’d have to be a bit strange to want to go.

Well, I’m a member and, as ⁴_______________ as I’m concerned, it’s a great way to spend your time. The ⁵_______________ why you think like you do is that you don’t know enough about them. It ⁶_______________ strange to criticize something you know nothing about.. The ⁷_______________ is, that the scouts have modernized like everything else. You should come with us one week.

Well, you may be right but, to be ⁸_______________, I’d rather not bother.

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TOTAL

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