Use of English for advanced learners 8 Grammatical structures - Thấm Tâm Vy

Thẩm Tâm Vy, April 28th, 2020 USE OF ENGLISH FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS - 08.

USE OF ENGLISH – 08 FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES Develop your Use of English skills: understanding grammatical structure I. Choose the best ending for each sentence. 1 When we returned after a month, we found that the owner had........... a. been completely redecorating the restaurant. b. had the restaurant, completely redecorated. 2. The waiters clearly wanted to go home and we were uncomfortable because we felt that we were........... a being watched. b waiting to finish our meals. 3. James was very optimistic, so he was confident that his new venture........... .a. had succeeded. b. would succeed. 4. When the business failed and she lost everything, Janice realised she........... a. had to look into ways of making it work. b. should have looked into making it work a little more closely. 5. I’m not sure what it was that made me decide........... a. to enter the restaurant business. b. running a restaurant. 6. Putting in a new kitchen would have taken too much money and time........... a. for it to be practical. b. that we couldn’t do it. II. Read the text without writing the missing words and match each gap to its grammatical structure. You can use some structures more than once.

causative form ■ full infinitive modal perfect ■ modal verb passive voice

■ past continuous ■ past perfect continuous ■ past simple Gap1........... Gap2........... Gap3........... Gap4........... Gap5............ Gap6........... Gap 7........... Gap 8........... III. Write one word in each gap to complete the text below.

A DISASTER STORY Selznick already owned one restaurant, which he (1)...........been running successfully for five years. Things (2)...........looking good for Selznick and the next logical step was to expand. Not wanting to stray too far from a successful formula, he decided (3)...........model his new place on the old one, with the same decor and the same menu. But after the initial honeymoon period, the clientele rapidly dropped off. Fewer and fewer people came, until one night there were eight staff, and a grand total ofjust four customers. Realising he (4)...........not go on like that, Selznick was working on a change of plan when disaster struck. One of his customers fell ill with food poisoning and needed a long stay in hospital. It was a small town and word quickly spread. Selznick's original restaurant, which had (5)...........flourishing all this time, slowly suffered a similar fate to

the new one. First the new restaurant closed down, then Selznick (6)...........his original restaurant repossessed by the bank and he (7)...........left wondering how his luck had taken such a terrible turn. 'I (8)..........have stayed as I was,' he said remorsefully. 'By trying to expand, I lost everything. ' IV. Match the sentence halves to make sentences. 1. The outbreak of salmonella was traced ........... 2. We sometimes hear ........... 3. The most difficult thing is catering ........... 4. That night proved to be a setback ........... 5. Nobody said it was easy to succeed ........... 6. It’s essential to balance the cost ........... a. from which we would struggle to recover. b. for family groups with very different requirements. c. against the quality of the food you serve. d. to a restaurant in the town centre. e. in the restaurant business. f. of cases of illness or death caused by food allergies V. Write a word from the box in each gap to complete the sentences. You will use each word twice.

enough ■ so ■ such ■ too

1. At the wedding reception, there was far...........much work for us to do. 2. They said they had never had ...........an extraordinary meal. 3. We had to fire some of the kitchen staff because they weren’t fast........... 4. After a successful opening night, with 50 satisfied customers, we both agreed we had never been...........happy. 5. For Alvin, there wasn’t...........money in the hotel business and he wanted to …