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Gossip at work
Name:Date:
Hear the present perfect and guesses with “must”.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- meeting
- A time when people come together to talk about something.
- detective
- A person whose job is to find out who did a crime.
- fire
- To end someone's job.
Answer key
- And my boss has called a meeting.“Has called” is the present perfect: the meeting is already planned.
- That must be what the meeting is about.“Must be” shows a strong guess.
- I can't go back to being a detective.“Go back to” plus an -ing form means return to an old activity.
- Penelope, have you heard the news?“Have you heard” asks if someone already knows something.
- You look like I'm going to fire you.“Look like” here means seem. “Going to fire” talks about a plan.