Put a suitable time word or expression in each space. Each space is for one word.
Hello!
What would you put for quesion 3?

Put a suitable time word or expression in each space. Each space is for one word.

Just a quick message (1) _____before___I leave for the airport. Sorry I haven’t been in touch (2) __since___ Wednesday, but I’ve been busy getting ready (3) _____ ______ and I haven’t collected my ticket (4) ___yet__ from the travel agency. (5) __As__ __soon__ __as____ I get to Sydney, I’ll send you an e-mail. I’ve (6) __never____ been to Australia before but _______I’ve been reading a lot about it (7) __________ . It sounds great! I’ll be in Sydney (8) ___?__ the end of next week, and then I’m travelling to Melbourne. I’ll be there (9) _?___ a month. (10) _By____ _the____ _time___ I get back, all my friends will have forgotten me!

(from Langauge Practice Intermediate, by Michael Vince)

Question

Put a suitable time word or expression in each space. Each space is for one word.
Hello!
What would you put for quesion 3?

Put a suitable time word or expression in each space. Each space is for one word.

Just a quick message (1) _____before___I leave for the airport. Sorry I haven’t been in touch (2) __since___ Wednesday, but I’ve been busy getting ready (3) _____      ______  and I haven’t collected my ticket (4) ___yet__ from the travel agency. (5) __As__   __soon__   __as____ I get to Sydney, I’ll send you an e-mail. I’ve (6) __never____ been to Australia before but _______I’ve been reading a lot about it (7) __________ . It sounds great! I’ll be in Sydney (8) ___?__ the end of next week, and then I’m travelling to Melbourne. I’ll be there (9) _?___ a month. (10) _By____   _the____ _time___ I get  back, all my friends will have forgotten me!

(from Langauge Practice Intermediate, by Michael Vince)

Answer

3 all day
7 recently
8 until
9 for (during a month is possible but unnatural)

Answer

I have been busy getting ready (3) so far.....

as soon as (5)
(8) until the end of next week

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Igor,  3- for the trip doesn't work as the instructions asks to put a suitable "time word". "for the trip" is not a time word. As for Q7 you have only one space, so only one word has to be written. As for Q8 and Q9 they make sense.

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3- for the trip
7 - anywhere I could get the information from
8 - at (exactly at the end of it); by (not later than at the end of it)
9 - for