11. Read and translate the following sentences. Explain the use of the Present Perfect.

1. We live in the life that we have created. 2. Miss Lazy has hardly done any work this week. 3. I’ve said all I wanted to say on the matter. 4. Alan and Chloe are both down with the flu. Thank God I haven’t caught it from them. 5.1 think you’ve made a good choice. 6. Rick, I’ve just told you that we don’t have a future together. 7. The country has made enormous progress this year. The Prime Minister has done so much good. 8. I’ve studied the last two faxes from Geneva and I’ve come to a decision. 9. You are my mother. I love you very much, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you have done for me. 10. Wait, you haven’t read the details. 11.You have become very dear to me, and in such a short time. I’ve fallen in love with you, Mary. 12. So the vendetta has finally ended. You have united the two families at last. 13. You’ve been generous beyond belief. Thank you. 14. Have you ever seen a ghost? 15. We’ve run out of sugar. Ask Mrs. Helpful to lend us some. 16. We have had some successes in tennis lately. 17.I have been married to Andrew for ten years now. 18. You are a human dynamo, I’ve never seen you waste a minute. 19. They have been separated for donkey’s years. 20. We’ve been friends since we were babies. Actually, you can say we’ve been inseparable since our prams.

12. Fill in the gaps with for and since.

David Jones has been working for the same company ______ 20 years. He has been a supervisor ______ 1991 and he quite likes the work, but he has been thinking about changing jobs _____ he discovered that he has a real talent for garden design. He has been studying garden design part-time _____ two years and _____ last month he has been preparing for his final examination. David has been interested in gardening _____ he was a child and he has known ______ years that his present job was not the best one for him. He has been much happier ______ he started the course and ______ weeks he has been looking forward to the tour that his college has organised. ______ David started the course, his wife has become interested as well and now they are talking about setting up a business together.

13. Use the right form of the verbs in brackets.

1. They (be) political rivals for more than 30 years and still are. 2. New York house (be) his main home for the last forty years. 3.I (miss) you terribly! Where you (be) all this time? 4. It (be) a long way, I really feel tired. 5. I always (like) being near water, and for as long as I can remember. 6. Frank wants to fly. He (do) this so many times in his mind that he is beginning to think it really (happen). 7. Life (be) very kind to me. 8. I not (see) fireflies since I (be) a kid. 9. I (notice) something strange in her lately. 10. We believe you (be) very busy since you (arrive) in New York. 11. Melanie (know) the Hills for donkey’s years. 12. After all, Nigel always (be) a bit of a know-it-all. 13. It is quiet in the apartment now that everybody (leave) it. 14. It’s strange that they are friends, they never (share) the same interests. 15. “I think you had better leave,” he said icily. “Before I really lose my temper. I just (have) enough of you.” 16.I always (want) to look clever, but now at the age of twenty I have to admit that I look like a person who never even (hear) of Jung or Updike. 17. We (see) each other fairly steadily for the past year, and when David (ask) me to marry him, last week, there (seem) no reason to say “no”. I (be) very lonely for a very long time. And so (have) David, ever since his wife (die) seven years ago.