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Unit
Exercises 122

122.1 Complete the sentences with on time or in time.
1 The bus is usually on time , but it was late this morning.
2 The film was supposed to start at 8.30, but it didn’t begin .
3 The train service isn’t very good. The trains are rarely .
4 We nearly missed our train. We got to the station just .
5 We want to start the meeting , so please don’t be late.
6 I’ve just washed this shirt. I want to wear it this evening, so I hope it will be dry .
7 I almost forgot that it was Joe’s birthday. Fortunately I remembered .
8 Why are you never ? You always keep everybody waiting.
9 It is hoped that the new stadium will be ready for the tournament later this year.

122.2 Read the situations and make sentences using just in time.
1 A child ran into the road in front of your car. You saw the child at the last moment.
(manage / stop) I managed to stop just in time.
2 You were walking home. Just after you got home, it started to rain very heavily.
(get / home) I
3 Your friend was going to sit on the chair you had just painted. You said, ‘Don’t sit on that chair!’, so
he didn’t. (stop / him) I
4 You and a friend went to the cinema. You were late, and you thought you would miss the beginning
of the film. But the film began just as you sat down in the cinema.
(get / cinema / beginning / film)
We

122.3 Complete the sentences using at the end + the following:
the course the game the interview the month the race
1 The players shook hands at the end of the game .
2 I get paid .
3 The students had a party .
4 Two of the runners collapsed .
5 I was surprised when I was offered the job .

122.4 Write sentences with in the end. Use the verb in brackets.
1 We had a lot of problems with our car. (sell) In the end we sold it.
2 Anna got more and more fed up with her job.
(resign)
3 I tried to learn Japanese, but I found it too difficult.
(give up)
4 We couldn’t decide whether to go to the party or not.
(not / go)

122.5 Put in at or in.
1 I’m going away at the end of the month.
2 It took Gary a long time to find work. the end he got a job as a bus driver.
3 I couldn’t decide what to buy Amy for her birthday. I didn’t buy her anything the end.
4 I’m going away the end of this week.
5 We waited ages for a bus. the end we had to get a taxi.
6 the end of the lesson, all the students left the classroom.
7 We had a few problems at first, but the end everything was OK.
8 You were in a difficult position. What did you do the end?
9 The journey took a very long time, but we got there the end.
10 Are you going away the beginning of August or the end?

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