Read the comments from a music website about recent concerts. Complete them using the correct tense of the verbs in brackets.

present perfect simple, present perfect continuous past perfect simple, past perfect continuous future perfect simple, future perfect continuous past simple, past continuous

I (1) ………………………………… (listen) to rock music for marry years – I (2) ………………………………… (go) lo some fantastic concerts in the eighties and nineties, but (3) ………………………………… (go) to one for several years until last week. I was glad I did - the concert was amazing!

I'm afraid that in my opinion the quality of music has declined recently, and I hope it wont take long before bands (4) ………………………………… (learn) the lessons of the 'here today, gone tomorrow' pop that I think (5) ………………………………… (ruin) music. By 2020 I want to hear cutting edge bands that by then (6) ………………………………… (play) good music tor at least ten years!

The queue to buy tickets was ridiculous - when I arrived people (7) ………………………………… (stand) in the rain and one man told me that he (8) ………………………………… (wait) for over six hours. If the band want people to come to their concerts, then they've got to improve their organisation.

6 Work with a partner. Find an example of something that:

• you've both been doing a lot lately

• you'll both have done by ten o'clock tonight

• you'd both done by the time you were twelve

• you've both enjoyed today

• you've been hoping to do (or ages, but have not done yet

• you both hope you'll have achieved in the next ten years.

Use of English: Multiple Choice

For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, С or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

CHIPTUNES

When the pop singer Imogen Heap was looking for (0) A bands to go on tour with her, she searched through My Space to find exactly what she was looking for. Two of her selected acts are part of what's (1) … as the 'chiptune' scene which cannibalises old toys and computers and turns them into strange musical instruments.

Imogen herself (2) … use of a modified Speak&Maths toy on her album and gets it to (3) … things like 'sexy baby' which obviously it wouldn't have done under other (4) ….

Much of the (5) … of using these modified toys - which would (6) … have been thrown away - is nostalgia. While she's ripping the back off them, rewiring their contact points and (7) … sinister looking switches to make weird noises, she's not above getting sentimental about them. As she says: 'They have a (8) … in our hearts and I like the idea of (9) … them back to life.'

The golden age of chiptunes was the early 1990s when the sound chips of video game consoles were the only (10) … available means of creating music on computers.

But the scene now has devotees all over the world, and sites such as My Space have (11) … them to share their music. As one fan says: There's so much sound production around now that's hi-tech, clean and polished; this music is the (12) … of that.'

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Date: 2015-12-17; view: 2398