Grammar 1 Choose the correct answers.

1 They have just / yet decided to make a film about his amazing journey.

2 ‘How long / How often have you been on this expedition?’ Only for / since this weekend.

3 Parker Liautaud has yet / already been on several expeditions.

4 They’re freezing. They’ve just / already finished their trek to the North Pole.

5 We have walked for / since eight hours now and we’re not even close to the camp yet / already.

6 Nothing dangerous has ever / never happened to me during my trips.

2 Complete the text with the present perfect or simple past forms of the verbs in brackets.

Parker Liautaud calls himself an ‘explorer / campaigner / teenager’. He’s mainly known for his polar expeditions, but he’s also a climate change campaigner, motivational speaker and published journalist. Parker’s first Antarctic expedition 1 (take place) in 2009, when he 2 (be) only fourteen. He first 3 (try) to trek to the North Pole at the age of fifteen, but 4 (stop) fifteen miles from the Pole because of dangerous weather conditions. But since that expedition, he 5 (complete) the trek twice and in April 2010 6 (become) the first person to check in at the North Pole via Foursquare. All of Parker’s expeditions help raise awareness of climate change, especially among teenagers. He 7 (give) numerous talks on the issue, and in August 2012 8 (speak) at the prestigious TEDx conference in Belgium. He 9 (write) articles for The Huffington Post, The Independent and The New York Times.

There is more ahead for this inspiring teenager and the world 10 (not / hear) the last of Parker Liautaud yet.

2 Find and correct mistakes in the sentences.

1 – Where is my cup? – Sorry, my little brother just broke it.

2 – I haven’t seen you for so long! – Oh, yes, we gone to Greece a month ago and come back yesterday.

3 It is the last week of this film in our cinema, and we haven’t yet saw it.

4 Anyone who has never make a mistake have never tried anything new.