Focus 5. Unit 1. Grammar/ Use of English

Complete the sentences with the correctcontinuous, perfect or perfect continuous forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. I’m going through a hard time and right now I ____________            (find) it difficult to communicate with people.

2. My friend and I met when we___________________                  (take part) in a holiday art course.

3. This time tomorrow I ______________                 (get) ready to go out to a party that I’m reallylooking forward to.

4. She________                    (prepare) for the dance competition for a long time, and then at the last moment she had to give it up.

5. I hope by the time I’m thirty I ________________                      (discover) what I want to do in life.

6. At the end of this month I ________________                        (play) with the band for a whole year.

7. I don’t know what’s happened to Claire; she used to be very easy-going, but now she _______            (become) so stubborn and difficult that it’s not easy working with her.

Complete the sentences with the words from the box. There is one extra word.

Complete the text with one word in each gap.

Liz and Emily had been best friends from the age of five until the end of primary school. And then Emily went to a private school, where she found herself under pressure not to associate ¹___________      people from ’other’ schools. Everyone you knew was supposed ²___________    conform to the same standard of wealth and social status. But the bond ³___________         the two friends was stronger than the prejudice and the malice. Next month they both turn thirty, and they will ⁴___________    celebrating their birthdays together. They ⁵___________      just booked a table for the party. And they still count ⁶___________    each other in all difficult situations.