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REAL ENGLISH Anyway...
A. (🎧2-27) Listen and read. Then repeat the conversation and replace the words in blue.
B. Practice with a partner. Replace any words to make your own conversation.
1. for a long time - since I went for a class trip
Have you been to the natural history museum recently?
No, I haven't been there since last May. Why?
2. I've seen it twice - I've been there two times
There's a new dinosaur exhibit there. I've been twice and I've learned a lot.
Oh, like what?
3. fascinating - pretty cool
Well, they have a dinosaur called a Stegosaurus. It's really interesting.
A Stigosaurus? You mean there's a dinosaur named after me?
4. an egg - a golfball
No, Stig! It's a Stegosaurus. Anyway, its brain was only the size of a walnut!
Oh, that's not what I imagined!
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| DESCRIBING PAST ACTIONS (P. 161) |
| A man found dinosaur bones in his yard in 1997. Workers in Mexico came across two human footprints several years ago. In the past few years, scientists have found 11 more footprints in the area. In 2011, a boy discovered the body of a mammoth in Siberia. A museum has displayed the mammoth for several years / | for since |
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C. Complete the sentences. Write for or since.
1. I've been part of the fossil research team ___________ three months.
2. Jason hasn't written any research articles ___________ he became a professor.
3. Penny has been a member of the Science Club ___________ two years.
4. The museum has had the skeleton on display ___________ 1998.
5. Archeologists have known about the footprints in the cave ___________ six months.
6. Researchers haven't discovered any fossils in the area ___________ last year.
D. (🎧2-29) Complete the conversations with the correct form of the verbs. Then listen and check your answers.
1. Quinn: (1) ___________ you ___________ (watch) the news last night?
Michael: No, why?
Quinn: There (2) ___________ (be) a cool story about fossils. In the past few weeks, some schoolchildren (3) ___________ (find) some interesting-looking rocks. They (4) ___________ (give) them to some scientists. It turns out they were dinosaur fossils! The scientists (5) ___________ (not come across) anything else since then, but they are still looking.
2. Jake: Hi, sorry I'm late. How long (6) ___________ you ___________ (be) here?
Fumiko: It's OK. I just got here two minutes ago. So, what movie do you want to see?
Jake: How about that one? It's about aliens who come to Earth and live as humans.
Fumiko: Um, you know, in the past few months I (7) ___________ (see) three science fiction movies. Can we watch something else?
Jake: I (8) ___________ (see) the other movies last week. Let's try somewhere else.
E. Work with a partner. Student A: Turn to page 136. Student B: Turn to page 138. Ask and answer questions to complete the missing information.
A meteor falling over Whitby, England
