BACH-2

Answers:

1 1. b

2. a

3.a

2 It offers peace and privacy.

3 a) take a trip b) approximately c) aristocratic d) consists of e) acquiring

4 a) I have never seen such a nice house.

b) I have been waiting for three hours.

5 You can send your composition on e-mail to your teacher if you want it to be corrected!

B

1. Have you heard the news? We are moving house.

2. I hardly recognised Tim. I hadn’t seen him for such a long time.

3. They had eaten before they left, so they weren’t hungry when

they arrived.

4. Who has taken my bike? It isn´t here.

5. I would like to visit Jenny today. She has not been well recently.

6. His marks in the exams have surprised me.

7. When we got to the station, we saw that the train had left.

8. Fortunately, we had not gone far when we realised that we had forgotten our plane tickets.

C

1. Andy has been waiting for a long time.

2. Karen has been living in London since 1997.

3. Sue has been studying for hours.

4. Bill has been working in the kitchen all day.

D

1. Anna is really tired / She has been working since 6 p.m.

2. Scientists still have not found a cure for AIDS. / They have been doing research for years.

3. Melanie is tired of her present job../ She has been looking for a new one for a while.

4. The Serranos stopped going to Portugal for their holidays last year. / They had been going there since 1979.

5. Karen found a new job last week. / She had been looking for one for ages.

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6. The Solers love France.They have been going there for years.

7. The doctors were happy when they discovered the cause of the disease. They had been carrying out their research since 1980.

8. Emma was exhausted. She had been working all morning.

E

1. Margaret is an experienced driver because she has been driving since she was a teenager.

2. There was water on the ground yesterday because it had been raining all week.

3. When I arrived, Andy had been waiting for a long time.

4. I am tired because I have been jogging for the last half hour.

5. Her eyes hurt her because she had been reading without her glasses.
    Her eyes hurt her because she has been reading without her glasses.

        Remember:  hurt  -  hurt  -  hurt

6. Cathy’s hair was wet because she had been swimming.

7. The kitchen was a mess because the children had been cooking for hours.

F

Two years ago, Bill and Mary Blyth left their jobs. They had been thinking about leaving for a long time because they were very unhappy with their work. The Blyths bought a caravan and have been travelling around Europe for the past year. They have already visited Portugal, Spain, France and Germany. At the moment they are driving through Switzerland.

Mary loves Switzerland. "It is so beautiful here," she said. "Yesterday it snowed as we were driving through the mountains, and everything looked so white, just like on a Christmas card". Bill doesn't like Switzerland as much as Mary. "I prefer hot weather, so next summer we will spend some time in the north of Greece and then we will cross the border into Turkey."

"Are you enjoying yourselves?" I enquired.

"Definitely!" they replied. "We haven't been so happy for years.

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