- •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.
10. Complete the text with words from the box, using used to ...
buy go have keep look after look at live play stand take
Recently we took our 15-year-old son Joe to the place in Paris where we 1 when he was a baby. We showed him the house, with the balcony where he 2 and make speeches to imaginary crowds. Then we went inside, and believe it or not, there was Mme Duchene who 3 Joe when we were working. She didn't look a day older. We couldn't get into the flat, but we saw the garden where Joe 4 . Then we visited the park where we 5 him for walks, the zoo where he 6 the lions and tigers, and the lake where we 7 boating. Not much had changed in the area: most of the shops were still there, including the wonderful old grocer's where we 8 delicacies like cherries in brandy. But the friendly butcher who 9 the best pieces of meat for us was gone, and so was the restaurant with the bad-tempered old waitress where we 10 Sunday lunch. I found it strange to go back: it made me feel happy and sad at the same time. But Joe was delighted with the trip.
11. Make sentences with used to and didn't use to about how people lived hundreds of years ago. Use your own ideas.
1 travel / horse
2 cook / wood fires
3 live so long
4 fight / spears
5 hunt / bows and arrows
6 believe / ghosts and devils
7 be able / vote
8 think / earth was flat
9 bigger families
10 children / work, etc.
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:
Examples:
I didn’t like the food here at first, but now it’s not so bad. → I’m getting used to the food here.
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We found the noise intolerable at first, but now it’s bearable.
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The humidity was unbearable initially, but now I don’t notice it at all.
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At first the pace of life was difficult for us. But now it’s not so bad.
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When he started his job, Darren hated getting up early, and he still hates it.
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Going to work on the underground was an awful shock, and I still dislike it.
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Sharing a room was awkward at first, but it doesn’t seem quite so awkward now.
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I didn’t like the weather then and I still don’t like it.
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I can’t eat any more. We never have such big meals at home.
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She can’t climb all those steps. She’s not accustomed to so much exercise.
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He didn’t like using the computer at first, but now he’s much better at it.
14. Mary had to move to Italy for her job. At first, she found living in a foreign country quite difficult, but she is slowly getting used to it. Use the prompts below to talk about how she is getting along, as in the example. Add your own ideas.
e.g. She wasn’t used to living by the sea, but she is used to it now.
She still hasn’t got used to living on her own.
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Speak about things you didn’t like at first but then got accustomed to.
NB We can use used to but not would when we talk about past states that have changed:
The factory used to be over there. Didn't you use to smoke at university?
We don't use either used to or would when we say exactly how many times in total something happened, how long something took, or that a single event happened at a given past time:
We visited Switzerland four times during the 1970s, (not We would/used to visit...)
She went to Jamaica last month, (not She would/used to go to Jamaica last month.)