Present perfect and past simple 3 Complete the letter. Use the correct form of the present perfect or the past simple. 4. Dear Maria 1 (1 just finish) my homework, so now ! can write to you! Thanks for your letter. It (2 arrive) yesterday and l (3 read) it in my maths lesson! Unfortunately my teacher (4 see) me! I meally (5 like) the photos you sent me. I (6 not see) a picture of your family before. Your sister looks really nice. My sister is 18. She (7 just leave) school and she's going to live in Spain for a year. I hope I can visit her: I(8 not travel) abroad before! What about you? (9 you ever visit another country? Maybe you'd like to come to England? It's ten o'clock and my mum (10 just tell) me to go to bed! I'll post this letter tomorrow. Write again soon. Love Sarah *** . х

1. Many unemployed people want something interesting and well-paid,  c) though (as they say) “there is life after work”.
2. b) In spite of the lowest rate of unemployment in Europe the British Labour government promised to transform the welfare system.
 3. a) Although here are 3 million unemployed in France, almost all of them believe “they are entitled not just to a job, but to the right kind of a job”.
4. In France for some unemployed people any part-time job at minimum wage simply isn’t worth having, c) because the pay for this kind of work is almost the same as the welfare.
5. Many people are sure that “six months of joblessness is a career killer” and seek a job, a) while some other unemployed people don’t want to find a job and be paid minimum wage.
6. German taxpayers pay tens of billions of euro to finance a lot of benefits a) despite their ineffectiveness.
7. b) Because a married man with two children in Germany gets about 2,800 euro if he’s on the dole, an employed man with an entry-level job in a hotel or restaurant takes home only 1,800 euro.