Keynote Advanced (Unit 1)

KEY WORDS

• nest

• reduce de inward movement

• flat-lined

• stopped increasing, but didn't decrease

• extraneous

• via the Internet, asked a lot of people

• crowdsourced

• fit one inside the other

• stem the inflow

• nor relevant or related

GRAMMAR

Groups:

(a) Before

,

(b) After

,

(c) Ongoing

,

(d) Completed

• I used my travel hairdryer a lot.

• l've used my travel hairdryer a lot.

• Had you been trying to think of ways to save money?

• I've been thinking about getting rid of my TV.

• When my car broke down, I decided to sell it.

• Have you been trying to think of ways to save money?

• When my car broke down, I had decided to sell it.

• I'd been thinking about getting rid of my TV.

GRAMMAR

• l've been spending a lot of time

• 1. and now I want to work less and have few

• 1. I hadn't used a computer for several yea

• 1. by the time I sell it next year

• 1. I've been working full time for ten year

• reading about how to live more simply

• I'd been thinking for years about trying

• when I finally decided to do something a

• 1. I will have spent thousands of dollars m

• 1. when I was given one to use for work

My phone has become a necessity. I don't think I'll ever ​ (a)   to get by without it.

• have been able
• be able

Before last year, I ​ (a)   the guitar since I was a teenager. Now I play every week, but I do think of it as a bit of a luxury.

• didn't play
• hadn't played

1. Running has become a necessity for me. I ​ (a)   in eight marathons so far. l'd go crazy without it.

• 've run
• ran

1. My luxury has always been reading. I ​ (a)   three hours a day reading.

• spend
• 've been spending

He __________ (never own) a clothes dryer because he doesn't mind hanging out the washing.

I __________ (drive) to work for years before I finally decided last year to start walking.

For the past year, you __________ (try) to convince me to buy a new laptop, but I don't want one!