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I. GRAMMAR1 : TENSES
1. Be and have: revision test. Put the words in the right order:
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Michael Swan & Catherine Walter. Oxford English Grammar Course. Intermediate. OUP, 2011.
2. Look out! My husband comes/is coming.
3. Some people still think the sun goes/is going round the earth.
4. I play/’m playing tennis every weekend.
5. Who sits/’s sitting in my chair?
6. What happens/is happening in golf if you lose the ball?
7. An alcoholic is a person who drinks/is drinking too much and can’t stop.
8. Look! She wears/She’s wearing the same shoes as me.
9. ‘What are you looking/do you look at?’ ‘A strange bird’.
10. I stay/’m staying with John for a few weeks until my flat’s ready.
E.g.: At 6.00 this morning I was having a wonderful dream, but then the alarm went off.
(have; go)
This time yesterday I was lying on the beach. (lie)
9. Past Tense – Complete the text with the verbs in the box (there is one
verb too many). You will need five past continuous and three simple pasts.
ask come dance grin hold not dance order play throw
word, and then replace it with a word or phrase from the box:
a) Unfortunately the ball hit the house and broke a glass. window
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Michael Vince & Paul Emmerson. Intermediate Language Practice with Key. English Grammar and
Vocabulary. Macmillan, 2003.
b) I washed my hands in the bathroom and dried them with a cloth. ………..
c) There was a small wooden door leading into the field. ………..
d) As I sat down at the kitchen table, I knocked my cup onto the ground. ………..
e) In the corner of Joe’s room was a small library for his books. ……….
f) All round the garden there was a high wooden wall. ……….
g) On the roof tops Tina could see a tall fireplace pouring out smoke. ……….
h) The floor of the kitchen is a bit lower, so mind the stair. ……….
4. Complete the sentences with a compound word formed from two words
arm ash basin bed bin book case chair dish down
dust flower hole key room stairs tray wash washer
5. Complete each sentence with a verb from the box in a suitable form.
Every decision you make is a battle between intuition and logic and, whether you make snap
judgements or dither about for ages, weighing up the pros and cons depends on your
personality type. But we can learn from both, decides Lizzie Enfield
Finishing this article, my computer prompts me: ‘Do you want to save this document?’. I do,
which is why I press ‘save’, but now that it’s questioning my decisions, so am I. Do I really
want to save it? Is it even good enough? Or should I just start again? Oh dear…
I’m notoriously indecisive. Ask me if I want a cup of tea or coffee and I won’t give you an
immediate answer, even though I don’t actually drink coffee. To plump for one beverage
option without giving the other due thought seems ill-advised.
Deciding what to wear, or what to have for breakfast often makes me late for work. The next
decision on my list is where to have a family holiday next year. Will we go abroad or stay in
the UK? There are advantages and disadvantages to both choices. I am torn between the two.
My husband, however, is decisive. He walked into our current house, took one look around
and decided to offer the asking price, while I was wondering whether the reasonably sized
garden compensated for the tiny bathroom. Once he’s made a decision, he won’t agonise over
whether it was right or not – he’ll just get on with it.
Sometimes our different approaches help us to reach ‘good’ decisions, while at other times
they lead to arguments that go around in circles.
The good thing is, I am not alone. People are as different in the way they make their decisions
as they are in their preferences for drinking tea or coffee, and both our make-up and our
psyches affect the way we go about it.
Interestingly, no matter how rational we think we are, most of our decisions are made by our
intuitive mind, which is faster, more easily accessed, and tends to override our slower, logical
mind. On top of which, our thinking is riddled with systematic mistakes, known to
psychologists as ‘cognitive biases’.
There’s the present bias, which makes us focus on what’s happening now; the confirmation
bias, which makes us look for information that validates what we already know; and others
like the hindsight bias; the negativity bias; the loss-aversion bias; and so on.
To use the present bias as an example, if I ask you if you would like half a box of chocolates
now, or a whole box tomorrow, more people are likely to go for half now. Despite the fact
that our rational brains tell us that waiting and getting more chocolate makes sense, our
intuitive brains are set to say: ‘Yum, chocolate, I want it now!’
He walked into our current house, took one look around and decided to offer the asking price,
while I was ................... whether the reasonably sized garden compensated for the tiny
bathroom.
People are as different in the way they make their decisions as they are in their preferences for
drinking tea or coffee, and both our ................ and our psyches affect the way we go about it.
To use the present .............. as an example, if I ask you if you would like half a box of
chocolates now, or a whole box tomorrow, more people are likely to go for half now.
There’s the present bias, which makes us focus on what’s happening now; the confirmation
bias, which makes us look for information that validates what we already know; and others
like the .................. bias; the negativity bias; the .......-.............. bias; and so on.