Cover of the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - Hidden talent for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen and read the conversation below. Which tenses do the speakers use?
  2. Answer the questions about the conversation.

Answer

a)

the present perfect & past simple (and one example of the present simple)

b)

  1. Questions → Have you ever made a speech in public?; Have you ever made friends with someone from another country?; Form → have you (ever) + past participle
  2. Sentences → He met a woman from Chile in 2014.; In fact, they got married a week ago!; Verb tense → past simple
  3. No, never.; Yes, I have.; No, I haven't.