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1 Identity and Personality

A. Match the uses with the sentences.
1. general truths and (scientific) rules

2. permanent situations and states
3. show frustration or annoyance about a person’s bad habit (often with always, constantly, etc.)
4. decisions made at the moment of speaking
5. intentions or plans
6. things that happened in the past but the exact time is unknown or is not important

7. single or repeated completed actions in the past, especially with a past time expression to show
the exact time

8. continuing past actions at a specific time in the past
9. parallel actions in the past
10. completed actions that happened before a specific time or another action in the past

a. Does she work for your company?
b. Hailey was cooking while I was setting the table.
c. I had never tasted such delicious meals before I went to Sicily.
d. I met Mr Carlson last Monday.

e I was sleeping in the dorm at 8 am yesterday.
f. I’m going to sell my old motorbike to buy a new one.
g. Please wait for me. I’ll just get my jacket.
h. She’s always using my laptop without permission.

i. She’s lost her keys again.
j. The earth rotates and revolves around the sun.

B. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the boxes.

be do drink miss

remind stay talk wait
1. We sport regularly.

2. Wait a minute! I on the phone.
3. She lives in Denmark, but she with us these days.
4. Will you me of the meeting?
5. The traffic is terrible. They the flight.
6. I to Germany many times.

7. My sister a lot of milk when she was a child.
8. We for the train when I heard a strange noise.

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