- •I. Word order: adverbs with the verb.
- •1. These sentences are all taken from real recorded conversations.
- •Say how often you do some of the following things.
- •3. Rewrite each underlined sentence using the adverb in brackets.
- •Rewrite these sentences putting the words and phrases in brackets in the best order. Note that none of these sentences are emphatic:
- •II. Present and past habits. Repeated actions and states.
- •6. Use one of the sets of notes below to complete each dialogue. Expand the dialogues using your own ideas, act them out in class.
- •7. Here are some laws of nature. Join the beginnings and the ends. Think of other occurrences of Murphy’s Law.
- •9. Transform the statements below into negative sentences and questions making other necessary changes.
- •10. Complete the text with words from the box, using used to ...
- •11. Make sentences with used to and didn't use to about how people lived hundreds of years ago. Use your own ideas.
- •12. Write some sentences about things that you used to or didn't use to do/think/ believe when you were younger. Work with other students, find out what they used to do/think/ believe.
- •13. Rewrite these sentences, using be/ get used to (doing) smth:
- •15. In the following text, delete any examples of would that are not acceptable:
- •1. Try to memorize the following set expressions about habits:
- •2. Render the following text into English using the active grammar constructions and (for extra points) the active vocabulary (you are welcome to add your own comments!): Привычки великих.
- •3. Insert the correct prepositions into the following sentences (you can find a more comprehensive list of dependent preposition patterns at the end of this book):
- •In pairs ask and answer questions about each other’s likes and dislikes using the active expressions with dependent prepositions.
- •2. Comment on the following quotes about habits. Use the active vocabulary:
- •Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain
- •1. Grammar. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. Vocab. Suggest active vocabulary units corresponding to the following definitions:
- •1. Join the beginnings and ends, putting in if.
- •2. Choose the correct tenses (present or will...).
- •3. Complete these sentences any way you like.
- •II. Second Conditional sentences.
- •4. Transform the sentences into the second conditional making them hypothetical, and translate them into Russian.
- •5. Put in the correct verb forms.
- •6. Complete the sentence with a suitable form of the verb in brackets.
- •11. Choose the most sensible verb form and complete the sentences.
- •IV. Third Conditional sentences.
- •12. Transform the sentences into the third conditional.
- •13. Put in the correct verb forms.
- •15. Match the beginning of each sentence with the most suitable ending.
- •14. Complete the conversations:
- •In the dock: Chariot
- •In the dock: One man (and his dog)
- •In the dock: The Internet service provider
- •In the dock: The jilted lover
- •In the dock: The government
- •In the dock: The superhacker
- •VI. Mixed Conditional sentences.
- •17. Put the words in brackets into the correct tenses.
- •Vocab & speaking
- •1. Arrange the following expressions in the appropriate gaps in the exercise below. Change the form of the expression according to the context.
- •2. Render the following text into English. Use at least 15 active vocabulary units.
- •3. The verb get is used in a variety of expressions. There are a lot of them in this Unit. For more practice do the following exercise.
- •4. Complete the following sentences with the correct prepositions.
- •1. Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words from the text.
- •2. Read the article.
- •27 July, 2010
- •3. Retell the text using the active grammar patterns and at least 15 active vocabulary units.
- •4. Choose the best answer according to the text.
- •5. Find the following words and phrases in the text.
- •6. Discussion.
- •7. Comment on the following quotes about crime and punishment. Use the active vocabulary:
- •1. Grammar. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. Vocab. Suggest active vocabulary units corresponding to the following definitions:
- •I. Past Simple vs. Past Continuous.
- •1. Complete the text with the verbs in the box (there is one verb too many). You will need five past progressives and three simple pasts.
- •2. Complete each paragraph with one set of verbs, using the past simple or past continuous.
- •3. Complete the sentences using these pairs of verbs. Use the past simple in one space and the past continuous in the other.
- •4. Complete this text with either the past simple or the past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Where alternatives are possible, think about any difference in meaning.
- •II Past Simple vs. Past Perfect.
- •5. Use the Past Simple or the Past Perfect to complete the sentences:
- •6. Underline the correct answers. In some cases only one is correct, and in others both are correct.
- •7. Complete this text with these verbs.
- •III Past Perfect vs. Past Perfect Continuous.
- •8. Complete the sentences with one of these verbs, using the same verb for each sentence in the pair. Use the past perfect continuous if possible; if not, use the past perfect.
- •9. Choose the past perfect continuous form of the verb if appropriate; if not, use the past perfect.
- •10. Study this conversation extract. If the underlined verbs are correct, write “V”. If they are wrong, correct them using either the past perfect (active or passive) or past perfect continuous.
- •11. Complete this text with these verbs in the past perfect or past perfect continuous.
- •IV Tense Revision.
- •12. Choose the right tenses:
- •13. Complete the two texts about World War I with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
- •14. Underline the correct form.
- •15. Choose a novel or story, and select one or two pages. Make a list of the past tenses used on these pages. Are these the only tenses possible, or are others also acceptable?
- •16. Read the synopsis of a famous short story. Render the story into English. Последний лист
- •1. Idioms
- •2. Life without phrasal verbs
- •3. Complete the sentences with the corresponding prepositions.
- •4. Nationality adjectives.
- •3. Now read the text and see if you were right. Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank: the reading diary of British teenagers
- •4. Find words in the text that mean the following. The paragraph numbers are given to help you.
- •5. Are the following statements True (t) or False (f)? If they are false, say why.
- •6. Retell the article. Use at least 15 active vocabulary units.
- •7. Some words are often found together. Match the words on the left with their collocations on the right.
- •8. Now match nine of the collocations with their meaning.
- •9. Discussion
- •10. Comment on the following quotes on books and reading. Use the active vocabulary:
- •1. Grammar. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. Vocab. Translate parts of the following sentences using the active vocabulary.
6. Underline the correct answers. In some cases only one is correct, and in others both are correct.
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As Geoff was introduced to Mrs Snape, he realised that he had met/ met her before.
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During the previous week, I had been/ went to the gym every evening.
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He denied that he had taken/ took the money from the office.
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I didn't know the marking would take so long until I had read/ read the first couple of essays.
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The boy told me that he had lost/ lost his train ticket and didn't know how he would get home.
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At the conference, scientists reported that they had found/ found a cure for malaria.
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The teacher guessed that some of the children had cheated/ cheated in the exam.
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Thomas explained that he had gone/ went home early because he felt ill.
The waiter took my plate away before I had finished/ finished eating. 10 Jane didn't want any dinner. She had eaten/ ate already.
7. Complete this text with these verbs.
was (x2) explained didn't eat have gone had cooked hadn't eaten were went didn't lock have heard had reached hadn't locked
One of the four-year-olds in the reading group suddenly said, 'This is the silliest story I (l)…..ever……!' I (2)……in the middle of reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears to the group. We (3)……just the part in the story where Goldilocks goes into the bears' house and eats some of the food from bowls on the table.
'Where (4) the bears?' he asked.
'Maybe outside or playing in the woods,' I suggested.
'And their house was wide open? They (5) even……….the door before going out?'
'Well, in the old days, people (6) their doors.'
'And their food was on the table, but they (7) it before they (8)……… outside?'
'Maybe they (9) it because it (10) too hot.'
'If you (11) that meal, you wouldn't (12) out and left it, would you?'
'Probably not, but it's just a story,' I (13) rather weakly.
III Past Perfect vs. Past Perfect Continuous.
NB We use the past perfect continuous:
- to describe an ongoing situation or action which continued up to, or stopped just before a time in the past.
e.g. We had been working for over an hour before the auditors turned up.
- to explain a past result, e.g. a situation or an appearance.
e.g. The few survivors looked painfully thin. They had been living on meager rations since the accident. (=They looked thin because they had been living on meager rations).
- when we want to focus on duration.
e.g. The eager fans had been waiting in line for over six hours.
8. Complete the sentences with one of these verbs, using the same verb for each sentence in the pair. Use the past perfect continuous if possible; if not, use the past perfect.
apply carry fly smoke work
1. a She for the company since she left school, so I wasn't surprised when she took a new job in London.
b She finally her way up from trainee to a management position, and she celebrated her promotion with a big party.
2. a The avalanche them 500 metres down the mountain but no-one was hurt.
b She took a bottle from the bag she …..all the way from home.
3. a Michael all his cigarettes and had to borrow some from Kate.
b By the smell in the room and his guilty expression I could tell that Alex………..
4. a We for visas early, but still hadn't got them by the week before the holiday.
b She for jobs, without success, since leaving university.
5. a He all the way from New York to be at yesterday's meeting.
b When the plane was diverted, shortly after take-off, it ………… from London to Frankfurt.
NB. Remember that we don’t describe states with continuous tenses, and we use the Past Perfect, not the Past Perfect Continuous, even when we focus on the length of a situation up to a particular past time.