1A Memory

Listen to three conversations about memories. Match each conversation to two photos. There are two photos you don’t need.

Conversation 1
Conversation 2
Conversation 3
Conversation 1
Conversation 2
Conversation 3

3 attempts

Listen again and choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

Conversation 1

1 Emma always felt around the campfire in the evening.

2 Alan is the kids camping now.

Conversation 2

3 Liam has memories of his time with the family.

4 Liam is the restaurant he went to.

Conversation 3

5 Matty is to go to the reunion.

6 Leah isn’t that Matty wants to go back to Ayia Napa.

3 attempts

Complete 1–7 in the grammar box with the tenses in exercise 8.

Present Perfect

Will

Past Perfect

Past Continuous

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Past Simple

Grammar: Tense review (active and passive)

We use the:

1 for facts and routines.

2 for activities happening now.

3 for past actions that are still happening, the recent past and experiences.

4 for past actions that are completed.

5 for actions in progress in the past.

6 for something that happened before something else in the past.

7 for the general future, promises and immediate decisions.

We form the passive with the verb be + Past Participle.

3 attempts

Complete the passive forms the grammar box with the correct form of the verb use.

We form the passive with verb be + participle

is used

was/were being used

has/have been used to

had been used

will be used

was/were used to

ias/are being used

	Simple	Contunuous
Present
Past
Present Perfect		----
Past Perfect		----
Will		----

3 attempts

Where possible, change the verbs from the Simple to the Continuous form, or from the Continuous to the Simple form.

1 What do you do?

2 I’ve tried to phone her.

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3 That room is used as a bedroom.

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4 Everyone’s very friendly to me.

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5 Harriet always flirts with Nigel.

6 The train leaves at 9:15.

3 attempts

Complete the text with the correct active or passive form of the verbs in brackets.

‘I 1 (walk) to work this morning when I 2 (smell) freshly cut grass. It instantly 3 (take) me back to the school field with my friends. I instantly 4 (remember) all the fun things we 5 (do) together, allthose years ago.’

6 of the main triggers for this feeling 7 (be) a smell. That’s because we 8 (connect) smells very strongly to memories. Whenever I smell fresh chocolate brownies, I 9 (take) back to my grandmother’s kitchen. This strong connection between smell and memory 10 (know) as the Proust Effect. There 11 (be) very few studies into this connection, but people who 12 (study) the effect think it is because smells, emotions and memories are strongly linked in the brain.

In one study, participants 13 (ask) to watch a video of road accidents or other traumatic events. While participants 14 (watch) this, other stimuli – music, smells and images 15 (present) in the background. A week later, the participants 16 (invite) back and presented with one of the background stimuli. The participants who 17 (can) remember the most detail were those who were presented with the smell. They 18 (remember) far more detail than the people who 19 (show) an image or those who 20 (listen) to music.

3 attempts

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