Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense
A. Last week we finally 1) ……….. (move) into our new house. We 2) ………… (wait) to move for so long that I 3) ………… (begin) to wonder if we ever would. We 4) ………… (unpack) for days now, and we still 5) …………. (not/finish). Now the house 6) ………… (start) to look like a place to live in, and I’m sure we 7) ………….. (be) happy here. Next time, though, I 8) …………… (use) a different removal company to do the work.
B. Joanna wishes she 9) ………….. (be) a ballet dancer. If she 10) …………. (can), she 11) …………. (join) the Royal Ballet, but she hasn’t been trained. “If only I 12) ………… (take) lessons!” she says. Her parents told her that they 13) ………. (send) her to ballet school when she was a girl if they 14) ………….. (have) enough money but, unfortunately, they weren’t as well-off then as they are now. “How I wish my parents 15) ………… (be able) to afford to send me to the Academy,” she says. “If I have a daughter, I 16) …………… (make) sure she has the opportunity to study there if she wants to.
C. My friend Jessica 17) ………….. (recently/change) jobs. She 18) ………… (work) as a nurse before she 19) ………… (decide) she wanted to do something different. At the moment 20) ……….. (work) in a temporary job in a school near Leeds.