Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4 - Hidden talent for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these extracts from the conversation. Then work in pairs and answer the questions below.

Answer

  1. Yes. (She has been doing it ever since she was a kid = from then still to now)
  2. No. (She didn’t do anything for a couple of months: past simple for completed events in the past, so she is not out of action now)
  3. Yes. (He has known her for six years, so they still know each other now.)
  4. We don’t use the verb know in the continuous form because it is a stative verb. 
  5. for + a period of time (for a couple of months) since + a point in time (since I was a kid)