SUpper Unit 1 Progress test

1. Complete the sentences. Use the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

1. The bus got stuck in traffic, so, by the time we got to the cinema, we            (miss) the start of the film.

2. Clara                     (perform) in small-town theatres for years before she got her first role in a Hollywood film.

3. Audiences were amazed when they first saw the film Citizen Kane. They             (not see) anything like it before.

4. The flight was so long I             (watch) five films from beginning to end by the time we landed.

5. My little brother started crying in the cinema because he thought I           (eat) all of his ice cream.

6. It wasn’t until we left the cinema that I noticed my sister’s eyes were red. She                 (cry) all the way through the film.

1. Complete the extracts from biographies of famous Hollywood directors. Use the correct past perfect simple or past perfect continuous form of the verbs below. Use the continuous form whenever possible.

become decide make dream not work sell try win

1. Kathryn Bigelow
   Although she             of being a painter when she was very young, Kathryn Bigelow discovered that her talents lay in film-making. After studying film at Columbia University in New York, she got a job at the Art & Language collective. She                     there for long when she made her first short film. By 2010, Kathryn Bigelow          eight full-length films, many of them critically-acclaimed. Most importantly, she            the first woman to win an Oscar for best picture, for her moving war film, Hurt Locker.

2. George Lucas
   George Lucas directed his first film in 1971. He                 to get enough funding to direct a full-length film for a number of years before then, so he saw it as a great opportunity. Before long, he was established as a major figure in Hollywood. In 2012, it was reported that George Lucas          his film company to Disney for over $4 billion, and that, generously, he             to give most of the money to charity. His film company was worth such an incredible amount of money because it included the rights to Lucas’ most well-known film franchise – the Star Wars films. In the 1970s, the first Star Wars film         six Oscars.

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct Past Tense.

A: What                (do) when I        (call) at eight, Burt?

B: I             (work) in the garden because the wind                (blow down) the fence during the night.

A: Oh,                (you/manage) to fix it?

B: Yes, I     (do) it eventually, but it     (be) very hard work. I       (ask) my neighbour to help in the end. Why              (you/call) me?

A: I        . (want) to tell you about the factory. It        .(close down) yesterday.

B: I know. The company                 (have) problems for a long time before they finally         (decide) to close down the factory.

A: I       (hope) they would change their minds about it, though. It          (be) a part of the town for years.

B: Well, at least everyone who worked there           (find) a new job by the time it closed. That’s good news.