Before she started her business she _ any business experience ​

Complete the text with the past simple or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

Emma (1) . (not go) abroad before she went on a school exchange to France. In fact, she (2) . (not spend) more than a weekend away from home before. At first, she was a bit nervous. Before she (3) . (go), her parents had told her to phone as often as she wanted. But then she wasn’t homesick at all, and she (4) . (have) a great time. The only bad thing was when they had snails for dinner. She (5) . (never eat) snails before!

Andrew ___ be a doctor, but now he’s a businessman.

is used to

got used to

used to

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Дополните рассказ. Используйте артикли а/ ан или the там, где это необходимо: I took on my first job on (1). summer holidays. At (2). first, my parents were against (3). idea of me working. I didn’t really want to spend my summer working either, but it looked like (4) good op- portunity to get some experience and a bit of money. I was (5). sales assistant in a department store, and while it wasn’t (6). particularly challenging work, (7). store could be rather busy at weekends. I had a supervisor whom I really liked. He regularly kept (8) . eye on me to make sure I was doing (9). right job. To my surprise, I found (10) whole experience (11). great fun. I made (12). friends with one of the assistants and we often had (13). good laugh together as she told really funny jokes. That was (14). few years ago, and now I am (15). Managing Director of that same store​

she didn’t apply __ a job
can you chat __ this company?
Jane works __ a computer software firm
max is responsible __ his team
he decided to resign __ his company​

I _____ (work) in Italy for five years.

GRAMMAR Luisa went to visit her sister in London. Write sentences using the past perfect about what she had and hadn’t done before she left home. 1. She 2. She 3. She 4. She 5. She 6. She 7. She 8. She (buy) a present for her sister. (find) her passport. (not tell) her neighbour about her trip. (not choose) what to see in London. (practise) her English. (take) her cat to a friend’s house. (not make) any sandwiches for the journey. (not forget) her phone.​

Use Present Perfect

If you … (to speak) some foreign

languages, you … (to have) better

job opportunities.

complete the sentences. use the past perfect past continuous or (didn’t) use to and the words below.

she got a new laptop for free/freely I don’t know how she did it

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