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Unit 26: It must be love
Present perfect and past simple
Select a unit
- 1Nice to meet you!
- 2What to wear
- 3Like this, like that
- 4The daily grind
- 5Christmas every day
- 6Great achievers
- 7The Titanic
- 8Travel
- 9The big wedding
- 10Sunny's job hunt
- 11The bucket list
- 12Moving and migration
- 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14New Year, New Project
- 15From Handel to Hendrix
- 16What's the weather like?
- 17The Digital Revolution
- 18A detective story
- 19A place to live
- 20The Cult of Celebrity
- 21Welcome to your new job
- 22Beyond the planets
- 23Great expectations!
- 24Eco-tourism
- 25Moving house
- 26It must be love
- 27Job hunting success... and failure
- 28Speeding into the future
- 29Lost arts
- 30Tales of survival
Session 5
Hear part 6 of our drama, Alice In Wonderland, where Alice meets the Duchess, looks after a baby and talks to a smiling cat. After that, test what you learnt in this Unit with our weekly quiz.
Activity 2
The Weekly Quiz
Have you fallen in love with our activities this week?
Will your English be a perfect match for our quiz answers? Test your knowledge in our quiz.
Complete the activity
To do
Answer the 15 lovely questions all about Unit 26.
The quiz you'll love!
15 Questions
Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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This is a numberQuestion 1 of 15
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I really love her - I think she's the ______.
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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'In the red' is a phrase to do with owing money, so it's not that oneQuestion 2 of 15
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If you want to say you are 'feeling healthy and happy', you can say you are in the ______.
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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Remember that words beginning with 'c-i' have a /s/ sound at the beginningQuestion 3 of 15
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Which of these words is NOT pronounced with a /s/ sound at the beginning?
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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Present perfect is 'have' + past participleQuestion 4 of 15
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Complete this present perfect sentence: I have ______ married twice.
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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What's the negative form of the past simple?Question 5 of 15
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My new girlfriend is Spanish, but we ______ in Spain. We met in Italy.
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You need a present perfect questionQuestion 6 of 15
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______ the new James Bond film yet?
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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This sounds like a rocket!Question 7 of 15
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The 80s film star's revival is a ______ from the past.
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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This is a completed action - we need the past simpleQuestion 8 of 15
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In Session 3 you can read about a man who ______ to rob a bank.
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This is a completed action in the pastQuestion 9 of 15
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The events inspired the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, which ______ Al Pacino.
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We need a phrase which means 'having a romantic relationship with'Question 10 of 15
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I'm ______ this great guy - I think he is my soulmate. We have so much in common.
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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We need a phrase which means 'moved away from each other'Question 11 of 15
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We've really fallen out of love. We drifted ______ when he started working abroad.
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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You need a word which means 'be attracted to'Question 12 of 15
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Brian's so fit. I really ______ him.
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Can you get all 15 questions right? Choose the best answer for each question
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We're talking about a recent event which is important in the present, so we need a present perfect formQuestion 13 of 15
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Alice: I'd love to play croquet with the Queen, but she ______ invited me.
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This is a completed action in the past in this episode of Alice in Wonderland, so we need the past simpleQuestion 14 of 15
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Narrator: And the Duchess ______ the baby at Alice, who just managed to catch it.
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This is a completed action in the pastQuestion 15 of 15
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In the sixth episode of Alice in Wonderland, Alice ______ with the Cheshire Cat, who told her to visit the Hatter and the March Hare.
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Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
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Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...: x / y
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I really love her - I think she's the ______.
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If you want to say you are 'feeling healthy and happy', you can say you are in the ______.
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Which of these words is NOT pronounced with a /s/ sound at the beginning?
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Complete this present perfect sentence: I have ______ married twice.
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My new girlfriend is Spanish, but we ______ in Spain. We met in Italy.
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______ the new James Bond film yet?
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The 80s film star's revival is a ______ from the past.
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In Session 3 you can read about a man who ______ to rob a bank.
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The events inspired the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, which ______ Al Pacino.
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I'm ______ this great guy - I think he is my soulmate. We have so much in common.
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We've really fallen out of love. We drifted ______ when he started working abroad.
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Brian's so fit. I really ______ him.
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Alice: I'd love to play croquet with the Queen, but she ______ invited me.
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Narrator: And the Duchess ______ the baby at Alice, who just managed to catch it.
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In the sixth episode of Alice in Wonderland, Alice ______ with the Cheshire Cat, who told her to visit the Hatter and the March Hare.
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End of Unit 26
Sadly it's time for us to break up, but not for long - join us in Unit 27 for a look at question tags. They aren't too complicated, are they?
