1. Choose the correct options to complete the text about Facebook.

There are over one billion Facebook users worldwide. And this number is increasing all the time. It is clear that Facebook has changed the way we have looked at friendship. The word “friend” has become a verb, and “friends” now include people we only know online and who we have never met. One positive side to Facebook is that friends who have lost contact, often many years ago, are now able to get in touch again. “And more people are connecting with old friends via Facebook,” says a spokesperson for the website. “And Facebook also means that friends never need to lose touch; people can stay friends for life.”

2. Complete the conversations with present simple, present continuous or present perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

1

A: Where do you work?
B: Well, normally I work in Berlin, but I am working in Stuttgart at the moment.

2

A: Have you known Jake?
B: Yes, we have known each other for a few years.

3

A: Do you live in London?
B: Yes, I do. Actually, I have lived there all my life.

4

A: Jameela’s busy at the moment. She is having a piano lesson.
B: Oh yes, of course. She has one every Wednesday.

5

A: Are you emailing Andy yet?
B: I am emailing him right now, actually.

6

A: How many Facebook friends have you got?
B: Not many. I think I have got about fifty or sixty.

7

A: I am looking for my phone.
B: have you looked in the kitchen? I think I saw it in there a few minutes ago.

8

A: You see Karen quite often, don’t you?
B: Usually, yes. But I haven’t seen her for a few weeks now.

9

A: I am reading a great book at the moment – Tribal Life by Bruce James. Have you read it?
B: No, but I have read another one of his books.