Exercise 1 Complete the conversations. Put in the correct form of each verb. ►A: Are you ready? B:I won't be a moment. I'm doing (I / do) my hair. 1A: Could you tell me your address? B:Well,……………………………..(I / live) in a friend's house at the moment. Luckily..........……. .....................(I / find) a place of my own now, but I can't move in until next week. 2A: Is this your CD? B: No, it isn't mine……………… ...................(I / think)………………(it / belong) to Peter. 3 A: Can I borrow your calculator, please? B: Well,……………………......... (I / use) it to work out these figures at the moment………………............... (I / want) to finish doing them, now that…………………………. (I / start). 4A: Why can't you wash your dirty plates sometimes? ...........................………. (you / leave) them in the sink most of the time. B: OK, sorry. The last few weeks ................................... (I / have) so little time........................................... (I / rush) around all the time. Exercise 2 Read the story and write the missing words. Use one word only in each space. One day a man was (►) walking past a house in Bournemouth when he (1)………………………......a woman's voice shouting for help. The man (2) ...................…………. someone (3) .............................. probably trying to murder her. He ran to a phone box and (4).............................. the police. The police came quite quickly, but by now the shouting had (5) .................................. . However, the man (6) .........……………………. quite sure that he (7)…………………………… heard cries for help. When the police (8)………………………….. onthe door, there was no answer. So they broke down the door and went in. Inside the house was a woman who had just (9)………………………….. out of the shower. She explained to the police that she had (10)…………………………… singing along to the Beatles song 'Help!'. Exercise 3 Write a second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first. Begin with the word in brackets. ► Our trip to Africa was in October. (We ...) We went to Africa in October. 1 We've had ten hours of rain. (It...) 2 It's the right thing to do in my opinion. (I ...) 3 Our sofa is in a different place now. (We ...) 4 It was breakfast-timewhen Susan rang. (I ...) 5 Their game of badminton is always on Tuesday. (They ...)