Unit 3
Practice exercises
Complete the sentences 1-6 using the verbs in the brackets and decide on the correct
grammatical form from the alternatives given.
1
Managing an actor's image though media relations become popular in the 1980s. Up
u n til then a c to rs _________
[not care) much about th e ir public image.
Form: past perfect o r
would?
2
Newspapers and m agazines__________
(respect) the privacy of celebrities more than
they do nowadays.
Form: used to or past perfect?
3 As a child I loved playing the g u ita r and I _________
[dream] of being a w e ll-kno w n
m usician.
Form: would or past perfect?
U U ntil the 1990s, fo o tb a lle rs _________
[not earn) such large salaries and they did n 't use
to be so famous.
Form: past perfect o r
would?
5
Before w orking in television I ___________
[always think} that celebrities were special
people, but now I know many of them are quite norm al.
Form: past perfect or past perfect continuous?
6 The p h o to g ra p h e rs_________
[wait] hours fo r the stars to arrive at the 2010 Oscar
ceremony.
Form: past perfect continuous or
used to?
Gram m ar tip: The past perfect is often used w ith a tim e expression such as
before,
when o r
by the time.
Unlike the present perfect, specific tim es (e.g.
in 1993} can be used w ith the past
perfect.
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2
Listen to a radio programme about fame and complete the text with the correct verb
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forms.
In today’s program m e I’ll continue exam ining the im pact of fame on lifestyle using the
style icon Gloria Van Broncken as an example. Before becoming fam ous in the m odelling
industry, Gloria (1 ] ___________ in a s m a ll village and (2 ]____________ outside her own
country. She [3 ]___________ in a clothes store and she enjoyed a ll the usual activities of
a teenager in her free tim e. She
[U] ___________ in the clothes store fo r two years when a
custom er who represented a m odel agency spotted her and signed her up. By the tim e she
was 21 Gloria (5 )___________ round the w orld several tim es and (6 )____________ on the
cover of many international fashion magazines. Now the im pact of such drastic lifestyle
changes can be very s ig n ific a n t...
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