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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 15 - Cost of living for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at the audio script for Track 90 on page 208 and find a sentence using each of the time phrases 1-6. Which tense or structure (a-d) is used with each time phrase?

Answer

  1. I’m actually going back to Canada in a few  months. (a)
  2. The economy’s doing quite badly at the moment. (a)
  3. Unemployment has gone up quite a lot over the last few months. (b)
  4. I’m not sure I’m going to have a job in a year’s  time. (d)
  5. It used to be cheaper in the past. (c)
  6. Inflation’s gone up over the last two years. (b)