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Grammar1 Choose the correct answers.

1 Did you see Jan at the concert? She wore / was wearing a red coat.

2 Peter wouldn’t lend me his dictionary because he didn’t finish / hadn’t finished his homework yet.

3 I saw your sister in town yesterday. She talked / was talking to a couple of friends.

4 Jake phoned me just after he was leaving / had left the party.

5 When the exam results came through we all were celebrating / celebrated!

6 While I was walking to the shops, it suddenly started / was starting to get very windy.

7 They had waited / had been waiting for half an hour by the time David arrived.

8 When I got to the classroom, the teacher already started / had already started the lesson.

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2 Complete the sentences with the present perfect simple or continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

1 I (have) this cold since I went swimming last Friday.

2 How often (you be) to the USA?

3 I (often wonder) if learning another language would be difficult.

4 Where (you stay) for the last few days?

5 What (you do) to your hair? It looks great!

6 How long (you go out) with Freddy?

7 What (you eat)? There are red marks on your shirt.

8 Katy and I (know) each other since we were at primary school together.

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3 Rewrite the sentences beginning with the words in bold.

1 I had never before seen such a beautiful sunset.

2 We not only went out for a meal but we went dancing too.

3 They had no sooner started the exercise than the lesson bell rang.

4 There has rarely been such a high wind.

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Vocabulary4 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

argumentative grumpy tolerant naivereserved flexible stubborn hot-headedcourteous level-headed

1 The staff at the airport were all very to us. It was a pleasant

surprise.

2 My cousin is quite and doesn’t say much.

3 I was very when I went to university but I’m much more experienced now.

4 Don’t be so ! You can always find something to smile about.

5 In today’s society people need to be and listen to others’ points

of view.

6 My dad was very when he was young and got into a lot of trouble.

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IT’S A SMALL WORLDPicture this: You’re in a boat, a small one, easily 4,000 miles away from home. You’re being tossed from one wave to another in appalling conditions. Your mast has been damaged in a fierce storm and you haven’t eaten for two days whilst trying to fix your craft and remain afloat. [1 ] You wait, hoping beyond hope that someone has heard you and can reach you before conditions worsen still further.

You’re lucky. The message gets relayed to a cruise liner that is carrying thousands of passengers on the holiday of a lifetime and just happens to be in your vicinity. [2 ] You are very grateful. You are taken on board where you’re given food and medical assistance and start to feel human again. You travel with the liner safely to land. Your small boat has unfortunately had to be abandoned in the ocean but you are safe thanks to the cruise liner.

So far, a straightforward sea rescue. [3 ] It’s certainly not unheard of for large vessels to come to the aid of smaller ones, particularly in the big oceans where you can drift for days without seeing another boat. [4 ] The yachtsman whose boat got into trouble was John Fielder, a thirty-two-year-old man from a tiny village on the south coast of England called Warsash. Last year John was sailing a trimaran called (appropriately) ‘Dangerous When Wet’ from the Caribbean island Antigua to Rhode Island, north of New York, when he got into trouble. [5 ] She was the latest addition to the fleet of the US based Princess Cruises and it was captained by Captain Clark. Captain Clark and John Fielder had never met before, which is not surprising. What is surprising is that it turned out the two men live round the corner from each other in that tiny village of Warsash on the south coast! In all probability they buy their newspapers from the same shop but didn’t meet until their paths crossed 4,000 miles away in the middle of the ocean!

An amazing coincidence! If you can beat that write in to ‘What a coincidence!’, People Today Magazines, Bristol. We’re waiting for your story.

7 I don’t think winning a lot of money will change Sam. He’s very .

8 My sister is so you’ll never persuade her to apologise to him.

9 You’re being very today! You’ve disagreed with everything I’ve said!

10 We’re lucky to have Jill as an employee. She’s and can change her hours

if we need her to.

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Listening5 4.01 Listen to the people talking about

being lucky. Complete the sentences with the correct speakers A–E.

1 Speaker saved some money.

2 Speaker had a surprising exam result.

3 Speaker was successful because he/she was relaxed.

4 Speaker didn’t expect to achieve what he/she did so quickly.

5 Speaker doesn’t plan ahead.

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Reading6 Read the text.

7 Complete the text with sentences A–F. There is one sentence you do not need.

A This happens from time to time when small boats run into difficulties in heavy weather.

B But there is a twist to this tale.

C Less than two hours later the enormous boat is alongside you, having altered course to come to your rescue.

D Finally you admit defeat and put out an SOS call.

E He was stunned by the coincidence.

F The cruise liner that came to his assistance was the Crown Princess.

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Writing8 Imagine you witness a large fire and see fire-

fighters save a young child from the building. Write the story of the rescue for a magazine. Use the writing guide to help you.

Paragraph 1: Say what you were doing when the fire started.

Paragraph 2: Say what happened and describe the scene.

Paragraph 3: Describe how the fire-fighters saved the child.

Paragraph 4: Comment on the bravery of the fire-fighters and what happened to the other people involved.

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