4.2. Complete the following short dialogues. Use Present Perfect passive constructions in the positive or negative forms. (The suitable verbs are given in the box)

pay, sting, choose, mend, light, catch, find, steal, change, arrest

1) A: I’d like to pay my bill, please

B: You don’t need to. It .….

2) A: I’m worried about those escaped prisoners.

B: Don’t worry. They …..

3) A: I’ve come to pick up my watch.

B: I’m sorry, It ..… yet.

4) A: I left my bicycle outside the house and it’s gone!

B: Oh, dear. I hope it .….

5) A: Is that the lost Property Office? Any news of the passport I lost

yesterday?

B: No, I’m afraid it ..… yet.

6) A: Don’t touch that bee, little girl!

B: Too late. She ….

7) A: Shall I go and light the fire?

B: You don’t need to. It …...

8) A: Are you playing in the basketball team?

B: I don’t know. The team ….. yet.

9) A: Is the dialing code for Orprington still 57?

B: I don’t know, but it seems to me it …...

10) A: What’s going on here?

B: A man ….. for the crime.

4.3. Say what improvements have been made in our country over the last 20 years. Talk about roads, hospitals, housing, new lawns, schools, social system; industry, agriculture, working conditions, medical service, public transport, living conditions, etc.

Model: More roads have been built.

The social system has been improved.

Compulsory education has been introduced.

Useful verbs: build, develop, improve, introduce, make, modernize, reorganize, set up, etc.

4.4. Open the brackets. Use the Past Perfect Passive

(A) When the pupils went back to school after the summer holidays, a lot of things had been changed.

1. A new wing ….. (to build).

2. The walls ….. (to paint).

3. Some trees ..… (to plant) in the school yard.

4. The roof ..… (to repair).

5. The school ..… (to change) from a girls’ school to a co-ed school.

6. A library ..… (to open).

7. Computers ….. (to deliver).

8. New desks ….. already (to buy).

9. Several classes ..… (to add).

10. A tennis court ..… (to build).

(B) Mr Brown was having his house done up. Write what he saw when he went to inspect the work

1. New furniture ….. (to deliver).

2. The windows ….. (to repair).

3. The walls ….. (to paint).

4. New curtains ….. (to put up).

5. Light fittings ….. (to install).

6. The carpets ….. (to buy).

7. The telephone ….. (to install).

8. The flowers ….. (to bring).

9. A nice picture ….. (to hang) above the fireplace.

10. The old fireplace ..… (to mend).

4.5. Make up sentences. Use the Future Perfect Passive to say what will have been done by the year 2015. (The following word-combinations may be useful).

Model: I don’t think (I think) the drug problem will have been solved.

the drug problem; talking robots; international traffic laws; a cure for AIDS/cancer; passenger transport to the Moon; a European currency;

the world hunger problems; supersonic trains; new energy source; the problem of world peace; satellite TV for everyone.

4.6. Transform from Active into Passive. Use either the Past Indefinite Passive or Past Perfect Passive, Future Indefinite Passive or Future Perfect Passive:

1. Someone stole my car and abandoned it fifteen miles away. He had removed the radio but done no other damage.

2. It was obvious, someone had posted my parcel.

3. When she heard that somebody had killed her dog, she burst into tears.

4. I thought that someone had told you about the meeting.

5. I hoped that someone had given Sally the message.

6. The manager will have received the documents by tomorrow.

7. The builders say they will have finished the road by Saturday.

8. She thinks, she will have written an article by the end of the month.

9. By the end of the week the government will have introduced new measures against crime.

10. They will have given him medicine before another cheek-up.