Grammar
1 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.
Tick the correct sentences.
1 If I’ve ’d listened to you, I would be in a much
worse situation right now.
2 If you’d failed your driving test, how would you
felt?
3 But for John’s quick thinking, the boy would’ve
been badly maimed for life.
4 We’ll have helped you if we’d known you were in
trouble. Why didn’t you call us?
5 Ashley wouldn’t have lived in Australia if he
hadn’t met Rachel but is very glad that he did.
6 If we hadn’t forgotten to tell Jill where we were
going. She’ll be worried sick.
7 Now that he’s in his twenties, Leigh is regretting
playing truant at school when he was a teenager.
8 I wish you’d say that you’d be arriving early. I’m
still at work!
9 Had he not gone to the university to study sports
science, Joe would’ve joined the navy instead.
10 If you’d known he was an imposter, what would
you do?
11 If only I didn’t tell my boss what I really think.
I’m not surprised he sacked me.
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2 Complete the sentences with the correct form
of the verbs in brackets.
1 Don’t you just hate being told what to do?!
(hate/tell)
2 I from Matt until tomorrow as I
know he’s very busy today. (expect/hear)
3 You an opportunity questions at the
end of the lecture. (give/ask)
4 Esra Mick some support but knew
how difficult that might be. (want/offer)
5 Kim Alex the quiz as she was sure
he’d do well. (encourage/enter)
6 Will was surprised when his boss asked him if he
still with him. (enjoy/working)
7 After seeing the doctor, Tom another
appointment for two weeks’ time. (advise/make)
8 Although Jen a few times, she never
had. (contemplate/move)
9 Finally, they the job. I expect they’ll
send us the bill now. (seem/finish)
10 Pam in a noisy, crowded city and
said nothing would make her move. (refuse/live)
11 I really in front of a lot of people. I
get very anxious. (dislike/speak)
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Vocabulary
3 Match 1–6 with a)–h). There are two options
you do not need.
1 My father told me to always trust d
2 I’m glad that my science teacher
always made us figure out
3 It was only after a health scare that I
realised I had been working myself
4 Having never set up a company of my
own before, I was on a very steep
5 I was told that after I’d learnt
6 If you always take advantage of
a) how to do our own experiments as it taught me to
think more creatively and logically.
b) learning curve for the first few years of trading.
c) feeling which led me instinctively to make the
right decision.
d) my instincts when making important decisions.
e) the ropes, I’d really start enjoying the challenging
of working in the company.
f) into the ground in an attempt to make the business
work.
g) effect of being awarded a scholarship for further
research.
h) opportunities that come your way, you’ll be
surprised at what you can achieve in life.
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4 Complete the words in the sentences.
1 Being well qualified and ambitious, it didn’t take
Joel long to reach the peak of his profession.
2 My boss believes t is money and
takes umbrage at anyone who wastes his.
3 Initially, the detectives found the witness’s
account of what had happened hard to
s . It seemed so implausible.
4 The unexpected offer of a job managing the
company’s office in Hong Kong certainly gave
Chan food for t .
5 After completing her research project, Katrina
found herself at a c and had a difficult
decision to make.
6 The business started to go d when it
failed to react fast enough to changes occurring in
the market.
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