Use Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous to complete the sentences. Use the full form of verbs.
The students for the school concert since September. (PREPARE) This is the day we for so long. (ALL WAIT) Look! We small gifts for everybody at the party. (PREPARE) We about this problem for years! (KNOW)

Getting a Cold

Lucy has a cold. Her nose is blocked, she coughs a lot, and she has a sore throat. She felt fine last night, but now she is very 1)_SICK___. Lucy wants to go 2)__HOME and rest, but she thinks she can’t. She is a student and her essay is due today. She needs to proof read it and print it so the teacher gets it on time. Lucy’s 3)__TEACHER is very strict. He told Lucy that the 4)__ESSAY must be handed in on time. There are eighteen students in the class, and they are all very busy writing their essays. Hopefully, they won’t catch Lucy’s 5) __COLD. If the other students catch colds, they might take several days off school and miss out on study.

1. There are 400 000 British scouts.TRUE

2. The weather is usually sunny in north Wales. FALSE

It rains a lot in the mountains, and it's sometimes

stormy there, too, but not very often

3. The teacher is going to stay in a hotel. FALSE

The teacher is going to stay in a small tent.

4. Nick is going to sleep in small tent this weekend. FALSE

Nick is going to sleep in a large tent this weekend

5. Nikki isn't going to eat vegetables. FALSE

Nikki is going to cook lots of rice and vegetables

6 The text is mainly about how it is like to be a scout.​ TRUE