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Worksheet
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It’s Party Time! Match the sentences.
1 I’m having a baby shower
a for your boss who has just turned 65 years old.
2 Your friends invited you to a house-warming party
b right before your best friend got married.
3 You went to a stag night party
c for my sister who is pregnant (schwanger).
4 Your company is having a retirement party
d to celebrate their new home.
5 My parents have just celebrated their
e an end-of-the-course party for us next Friday.
6 Our English teacher is going to have
f silver wedding with the whole family.
Remember!
Simple Past
Present Perfect
Use:
Uses:
1. Specific time period
1. No specific time period
Key words: ago, yesterday, last week, at
3.00, at Christmas, in 2006, in
September, when
Key words: in my life, already, before, ever, never,
yet, not yet, just, so far, recently, lately
I went to a stag party last Friday.
The last time I went to a birthday party
was when I was 12 years old.
I’ve never been to a stag night.
2. To say that something started in the past and still
continues now
Key words: how long, since, for
I haven’t been to a birthday party since I was a child.
* For + period of time (for 10 years)
* Since + starting point (since Monday)
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Write complete sentences.
Example:
Last / stag party / go / I / Friday
I went to a stag party last Friday.
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be / just / they / a / to / silver wedding
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ago / birthday / we / daughter’s / 1 week / celebrate / our /
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never / he / before / party / be / surprise / to
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invite / so far / people / we / 20 / they / and / yes / say / all
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I / phone / old friends / not / see / in / I / ages
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party / organize / a / I / last / surprise / husband / for / year / my
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never / I / anything / do / this / like / before
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best / the / I / party / be / ever / to / be / brother’s / my / stag night
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Remember! The Present Continuous
Present continuous for future use
Be + ING
Use: when something is planned or arranged for the future
What are you doing tomorrow?
Tomorrow I am going to a baby shower. / Tomorrow I’m going to a baby shower.
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Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
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We ___________________ a big surprise party for our son. (plan)
2
I __________________ 15 of his friends from school and their parents. (invite)
3
It’s a pity we can’t come. We ________________ our family that day. (visit)
4
My daughter would love to come, but she _______________ to another party that day. (go)
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He ________________ to a new flat next week and _______________ a house-warming party on
Saturday. (move / have)
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When was the last time you went to a party? Write 4 sentences about the last party you went to.
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Autorin: Allison Schöne
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Answer key
Exercise 1
1) c; 2) d; 3) b; 4) a; 5) f; 6) e
Exercise 2
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They’ve just been to a silver wedding.
2
We celebrated our daughter’s birthday 1 week ago.
3
He’s never been to a surprise party before.
4
So far we’ve invited 20 people and they all said yes.
5
I phoned old friends I haven’t seen for ages.
6
I organized a surprise party for my husband last year.
7
I’ve never done anything like this before.
8
The best party I’ve ever been to was my brother’s stag night.
Exercise 3
1) are planning / ‘re planning; 2) am inviting / ’m inviting; 3) are visiting / ‘re visiting; 4) is going / ‘s going;
5)
is moving / ‘s moving; is having / ‘s having
Exercise 4
Answers will vary
Autorin: Allison Schöne
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