Complete the email below with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets.

Hi Carla,
How are things at home? As you kno w,
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I (write) to you from Britain where I (do) an English
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course. I (do) the course for eight weeks now and I (lea rn) lots of
English. The course is really intensive
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– we have over thirty classes per week. By the end of the course I (have) more
than 300 hours of classes,
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so I (definitely / end up)
speaking better English than you!
My host famil y, Mr and Mrs Jones are really friendl y. They know Spain quite well as
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they used to live there. In fact they (meet) each other when they (live)
in Barcelona. Fortunately they only speak to me in English. They say they
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(speak) Spanish quite well, but they think they’ve forgotten most
of it now. They’ve got one son, Evan, who
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(study) at university at the
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moment. I (see) some photos of him and he’s really good-looking.
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He (come) home this
weekend, so I’ll have a chance to meet him.
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I (write) to you again to tell you all about it.
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You phone d me the othe r day but unfortunately I (just / go) out. Phone me
again tomorro w. But don ’t call between 6 and
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7 p.m. because we (have)
dinner then. That ’s all for now. All the best, María.

P.S. Mrs Jones says she’s sorry she was a bit impatient with you on the phone. She
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was really tired because she (work) all day.
Complete the sentences with the correct verb forms from the box.
’ve played ’ve been listening
’ve talked ’ve been playing
’ve tried ’ve been talking
’ve watched ’ve been trying
’ve listened ’ve only been watching

1 I to all his records. I like most of them.

2 Get off the phone! You for an hou r.
3 I love Alex de la Iglesia. I all his films.
4 We know the other team well.
We against them before.
5 Oh, there you are. I to find you for ages.