Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.2 - A life at a time for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in brackets in either the continuous or perfect aspect. Sometimes more than one form is possible.

Answer

  1. have changed
  2. have helped
  3. are offering
  4. had contracted
  5. hadn't been
  6. had been trying (had tried is also possible, IF the parents were no longer trying).
  7. will have raised
  8. had done
  9. is setting up (has set up is possible but less likely, as we find out in the next sentence that they're not finished setting it up yet)
  10. will be helping
  11. have become
  12. will be posting