Skill Assessment

Test your grammar skills to find out what to focus on.

Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses using past simple or present perfect tense.

Question 1:

Antonio is a successful businessman and a soon-to-be millionaire. But things (1) _____ always _____ (not be) so easy. He (2) _____ (not meet) his parents until he was about 15 years old because they (3) _____ (send) him to Cape Town when he was a child. This experience made him stronger and determined to succeed and one day have his own family. As a young man, Antonio (4) _____ (experience) hard times. His girlfriend (5) _____ (leave) him, he (6) _____ (lose) his job, and at one stage he (7) _____ (sleep) in bus stations and at friend’s houses. He (8) _____ (come) a long way since then. His life changed one day when he (9) _____ (meet) a group of African men who invited him to their study centre. There, he (10) _____ (learn) English and other business skills and he started his own business selling coffee from his hometown in Angola. He became very successful in 2019 and, since then, he (11) _____ (spend) a lot of time and money helping other homeless people. In addition, recently he (12) _____ (write) a radio podcast, all about the life of migrants in the city.

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