Present Perfect vs Simple Past
51d Complete the magazine article. Use the present perfect or past simple of the verbs in brackets.
Gemma’s a dancer. She performs in videos for pop groups. She (0)
(be) a dancer for seven years. She (1)
(have) her first dance lesson when she was five. When she was eighteen, she (2)
(move) to London and she (3)
(join) a dance agency. ‘I really love my job,’ she says. ‘I (4)
(work) with some famous stars and I (5)
(learn) a lot. I’m going to move to the United States because there are a lot of opportunities there. I (6)
(be) there three times and I really like it. Last time I (7)
(go) to some great classes and I (8)
(meet) some interesting people. I’d really like to dance for somebody like Beyoncé.’
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