1 In pairs or small groups, discuss the questions.
1 Which of the habits in the photos do you think are good or bad? Say why.
2 How easy do you think it is to change a habit? Say why.
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2 1.8 Listen and write down four pieces of advice Khalil gives Issa about how to develop better habits.
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Don’t make big changes all at once – do it in small steps.
Make the good habit easier and more attractive and the bad
habit harder and less attractive.
Try to change your view of who you are, e.g., I’m a person who
doesn’t eat junk food.
Tell other people about what you’re doing so you’ll be
embarrassed if you stop.
Continuous and perfect tenses
3 THINK BACK Look at the extracts from the recording. What tenses are used in the underlined parts? Explain why.
Issa 1Are you feeling OK? You look a bit hot and sweaty.
Khalil ... I’m fine, 2I’ve just been running ... 3I’ve just started, really... ... I can’t run quite that far yet, but 4I’ll be doing a 5k run for charity in a few weeks ...
Issa 5Had you done much running before?
Khalil Next week, I 6will have been running every day for two months.
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1 Present Continuous – at the moment
2 Present Perfect Continuous – explaining a present result
3 Present Perfect Simple – recent action with present relevance
(just)
4 Future Continuous – action that will be taking place in the
future at a specific time
5 Past Perfect Simple – action completed before a time in the
past
6 Future Perfect Continuous – action still ongoing at a point in
the future
4 Match the sentences with meanings a or b.
1 □ I’ve been reading a book about habits.
□ I’ve read a book about habits.
a I’ve fi nished the book.
b I’m still reading the book.
2 □ I will be working.
□ I will have been working.
a I will be in the middle of my work.
b I will have fi nished my work.
3 □ I had been eating all day.
□ I had eaten that day.
a I ate.
b I was eating continuously or very often.
4 □ I’ve come up with a great idea.
□ I had a great idea.
a I have a great idea now.
b I came up with a great idea at some point in the past.
5 □ I’m playing a lot of football.
□ I play a lot of football.
a This is something I always do.
b This is something I’ve been doing recently or temporarily.
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1
b I’ve been reading a book about habits.
a I’ve read a book about habits.
2
a I will be working.
b I will have been working.
3
b I had been eating all day.
a I had eaten that day.
4
a I’ve come up with a great idea.
b I had a great idea.
5
b I’m playing a lot of football.
a I play a lot of football.
5 Complete the sentences with the correct continuous or perfect forms of the verbs in bold. Use a diff erent form in each sentence.
RUN
1 Recently, I................. five kilometres every day.
2 When I fi nish the marathon, I................... 42 kilometres.
3 I..................... for the bus when I tripped and fell flat on my face.
4 Before I trained for the marathon, I.................... (never) in a race before.
READ
5 I’m a real bookworm. So far this month I................... six books.
6 I........................... a fantastic book before I went to sleep last night.
7 I................... my book all evening.
8 I......................for two hours now.
LIVE
9 While I....................here, I want to go for a walk every day.
10 By the time you come and visit, I........................ here for six months
11 I..................... in several different countries.
12 I ate too much fast food when I.................... in Dubai.
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1 have been running 2 will have run 3 was running
4 had never run 5 have read 6 had been reading
7 have been reading 8 have been reading 9 am living
10 will have been living 11 have lived 12 was living
6 Complete the texts with the correct continuous or perfect forms of the verbs from the box.
| find get go off leave |
I was almost late for school, and I 1.................... up later and later. I would set my alarm, but fall asleep again straight after it 2 .......................... I’m not exactly strong willed. But now I 3..................... it much easier to get up. Want to know my secret? The only way to turn off my alarm is to scan a QR code I keep in the bathroom. Next week I 4........................ my house on time every day for a month! My mother can’t believe it. Such a good idea – I’m a smart cookie, that’s for sure!
| check reduce spend think of |
I 5................ way too much time on social media. One day I realised that I 6............... my account more than 50 times that day! I 7.............................. deleting my account altogether, but that seemed a bit extreme, so I decided that I would always log out of the app. Just having to fill in the password every time makes it enough of a pain that I can’t be bothered to keep logging in and I 8........................... the number of times I check it to maybe once or twice a day.
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1 had been getting/was getting 2 had gone off
3 am finding 4 will have left 5 was spending
6 had checked 7 was thinking of 8 have reduced
7 SPEAKING Read the question and make a few notes. Then, in pairs, discuss the question and practise giving each other some useful advice.
What can you do to help yourself give up a habit or start a new habit? How will things be diff erent in six months’ time?
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