- •Tense system of the english verb Groups of Tenses in Active Voice Exercise 1
- •Present Forms
- •Exercise 2
- •Grammar Game
- •Past Forms
- •Used to – Would – Was going to
- •Future Forms
- •Indefinite Tenses Present Indefinite
- •What do they do at their jobs?
- •Abdul and Pablo
- •What do you do every morning?
- •Litter is a problem in our cities
- •Vocabulary
- •Past Indefinite
- •Important first
- •A summer Holiday
- •Your Holidays
- •Nick Lost His Money
- •What did Simon and Sally Do Yesterday?
- •Dinosaurs Lived Many Years ago
- •Vocabulary
- •Future Indefinite
- •Offering help
- •Asking for suggestion
- •Making suggestion
- •Other Grammatical Forms to Express Future Meaning
- •What are they going to do?
- •Future plans
- •What's going to happen?
- •Present Continuous (Future Meaning)
- •Present Indefinite (Future Meaning)
- •Present Indefinite after Time Words when, if, after, before, until , etc. (Future Meaning)
- •Bike Hike
- •Right or Wrong?
- •What will they need?
- •Amazing Records
- •Continuous Tenses Present Continuous
- •Present Continuous or Present Indefinite?
- •Detectives at Work
- •Continuous Forms with "Always"
- •Here is a list of some of Jack's bad habits:
- •Past Continuous
- •Saturday Afternoon
- •What were they doing?
- •What happened?
- •Steve Jobs
- •Past Continuous or Past Indefinite?
- •A Fright
- •The Sky Went Green
- •Vocabulary
- •News Flash
- •Truth or Fiction?
- •Flying cats!
- •Strange Stories
- •Play the Game
- •Future Continuous
- •Future Indefinite or Future Continuous?
- •When the Tornado Hits
- •Vocabulary
- •Time Words Used with Continuous Tenses
- •Verbs Not Used in Continuous Tenses
- •Perfect Tenses Present Perfect
- •I have never …
- •Time Words used with Perfect Tenses
- •Present Perfect or Past Indefinite?
- •I've been to New York.
- •I went there in 1990.
- •It's Difficult to Say Good-bye
- •Contrasting Completed Action and Duration
- •Past Perfect
- •What came First?
- •Susan George's cv
- •Past Perfect or Past Indefinite?
- •Past Perfect, Past Indefinite or Present Perfect?
- •Disastrous David
- •Nobody had believed it was possible
- •Vocabulary
- •Future Perfect
- •What will life be like in the year 2100?
- •Future Perfect or Future Continuous?
- •Pit Stop at the Race Track
- •Perfect Continuous Tenses Present Perfect Continuous
- •Present Perfect Continuous or Present Continuous?
- •Present Perfect Continuous or Present Perfect?
- •Present Perfect Continuous or Past Continuous?
- •Past Perfect Continuous
- •What had they been doing?
- •About You
- •Who's guilty?
- •Past Perfect Continuous or Past Perfect?
- •The film had almost finished
- •Junior Genius
- •Vocabulary
- •Facts about James
- •Because…
- •Another genius
- •Past Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Continuous?
- •Past Perfect Continuous or Present Perfect Continuous?
- •Future Perfect Continuous
- •Future Perfect Continuous or future Perfect?
- •Too Little, Too Late
- •Vocabulary
- •Interpreting Sentences
- •TheVerbTo be Present Indefinite Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Find the adjective in the first sentence. Then complete the second sentence
- •The list. Use each adjective only one time.
- •Is the Sears Tower in New York?
- •Past Indefinite
- •" My First Impressions were …"
- •Future indefinite
- •What will happen?
- •Ten Years from Now
- •Weather Outlook
- •Life in the Year 2100
- •Will I be rich?
- •"The Car of the Future"
- •Dialogue between an Optimist and a Pessimist
- •Functions of the Verb to be
- •Example:
- •The Verb to Have Present Indefinite Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •They have a grandfather.
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Past Indefinite Exercise 6 a Picnic on Sunday
- •Put in have, had or didn’t have. Yesterday
- •Exercise 9
- •Leader:eggs, jam, toast, tomato juice, cake, coffee
- •Future Indefinite Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Functions of the Verb to have Exercise 12
- •Example:
- •Have for Actions
- •Uses of have
- •Have got
- •I’ve got … / We’ve got…or I haven’t got … / We haven’t got….
- •I Complete the questions. Use have got or has got.
- •Exercise 19
- •Partner game
- •Exercise 21
- •Exercise 22
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- •Ask a group-mate a question with How many or How much. Here is a list of words that will help you to give the idea of number.
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13 Fill in the blanks withitorthereto suit the corresponding meanings of the sentences.
- •Exercise 14
- •Conversations Exercise 16
- •Exercise 17
- •I Read the dialogue in the box.
- •What’s in Your neighbourhood?
- •Exercise 18 Looking for an Apartment
- •Are there any problems in the apartment?
- •Exercise 19
- •The sequence of tenses Reporting in the Present Tense
- •Kidnapped!
- •Exercise 3 Sports at school
- •Reporting in the Past Tense
- •Exercise 5
- •Future in the past
- •Reporting in the past tense
- •Punctuation in Direct Speech
- •Different Sentence Types in Reported (Indirect) Speech Reported (Indirect) Statements
- •Exercise 15
- •Reported (Indirect) Orders and Requests Exercise 20
- •Milchester Fun Run Rules for runners
- •Reported (Indirect) Offers, Suggestion and Advice Exercise 24
- •Reported (Indirect) Exclamations Exercise 25
- •Exercise 26
- •Reported (Indirect) Questions
- •Reporting a Dialogue or a Conversation Exercise 30
- •The Passive Voice The Passive: Indefinite Tenses
- •British facts
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3 Language quiz
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Krakatoa
- •Exercise 8
- •Graffiti Competition
- •The Passive: Continuous Tenses
- •The old house
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •The Passive: Perfect Tenses
- •Exercise 16 What had been changed?
- •Exercise 17
- •Exercise 18
- •Exercise 19 The Olympic Games
- •The Passive with by and with Exercise 20
- •Exercise 21
- •The Passive with get Exercise 22
- •Ask break damage hurt pay steal sting stop use
- •Exercise 23
- •The Passive: Have / Get Something Done Exercise 24 Exercise 25
- •Exercise 26
- •Exercise 27
- •Exercise 28 Mr. And Mrs. Rich
- •Exercise 29
- •Exercise 30
- •Exercise 31
- •Exercise 32
- •The Passive: Modal Verbs and other Similar Expressions.
- •Exercise 35
- •Exercise 36
- •The Environment : What Can Be Done ?
- •Don’t Be Impatient !
- •The Passive: direct and indirect objects (Verbs with two objects in the Passive) Exercise 39
- •Exercise 42
- •How much is recycled ?
- •Computers then and now.
Tense system of the english verb Groups of Tenses in Active Voice Exercise 1
Comment on the use of Tenses in the following situations. Name the moment the situation refers to (Present, Past, Future) and say what tense group (Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect or Perfect Continuous) is to be chosen to describe the action in each sentence. Then translate the situation into English.
Example:
Он беседует со студентами. |
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Sentence 1 – Present Indefinite Sentence 2 – Present Continuous
He is talking with students. |
У меня есть сотовый телефон. Я часто говорю по нему с друзьями. Я
пользуюсь им уже два года.
Вчера, когда я ужинал, позвонил мой тренер. Он сообщил, что соревнования состоятся на следующей неделе.
Мой дедушка – заядлый футбольный болельщик. Когда я был маленьким, мы, бывало, ходили с ним на все матчи нашей команды.
Ольга никогда не была за границей. Она мечтает посетить Австралию, Великобританию и другие англо-говорящие страны. Она мечтает об этом с детства.
Я сейчас читаю книгу о Христофоре Колумбе. Он был итальянцем. У него была интересная жизнь. В 1492 году он отплыл из Испании в поисках Индии. Но вместо Индии он открыл Америку.
Где Сергей? - Он сидит в читальном зале. - Что он там делает?
- Я думаю, он учит английские глаголы к тесту.
Когда-нибудь ты станешь преуспевающим бизнесменом. В твоей
жизни будет много интересных людей и событий.
Я съел три пиццы. Я надеюсь, я не заболею!
Идет дождь. Надень плащ и возьми зонт, или ты простудишься.
10. Что ты делала вчера в четыре часа? Читала? – Нет, я писала
письмо своей сестре.
11. Не звони мне завтра после шести. Я в это время буду писать
сочинение.
12. Завтра они поедут за город, погуляют в лесу и вернутся домой к
вечеру.
13. Что ты ищешь? - Ключи. Я ищу их уже пятнадцать минут. Я уже
везде смотрел. – Не торопись. Вот они! Они все время лежали под
твоими перчатками. - Спасибо.
14. Когда я пришел домой, мой сын смотрел телевизор. Я рассердился,
потому что он смотрел телевизор четыре часа подряд и не пошел
гулять.
15. Напрасно ты их пригласил. Они всегда опаздывают. К тому времени,
как они придут, мы их будем ждать два часа, и будет поздно куда-
нибудь идти.
Present Forms
Present Indefinite |
Present Continuous |
Present Perfect |
Present Perfect Continuous |
permanent situations or states
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temporary situations
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recently completed actions
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actions started in the past and continuing up to the present
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repeated / habitual actions (especially with frequency adverbs: often, usually, etc.)
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actions happening at or around the moment of speaking
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actions which happened at an unstated past time and are connected with the present
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past actions of certain duration having visible results or effects in the present
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permanent truths or laws of nature
timetables / programmes (future meaning)
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repeated actions with “always” expressing annoyance or criticism
fixed arrangements in the near future |
personal experiences / changes which have happened
emphasis on number
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actions expressing anger, irritation, annoyance, explanation or criticism
emphasis on duration (usually with for, since or how long) |
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reviews / sports commentaries / dramatic narrative
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changing or developing situations
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Note: live, feel and work can be used either in the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous with no difference in meaning.
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Time expressions used with: | |
Present Indefinite
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every day / week / month / year, usually, often, always, rarely, never , sometimes, in the morning / evening / afternoon, at night, on Mondays etc. |
Present Continuous |
now, at the moment, at present, nowadays, today, tonight, always, still etc.
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Present Perfect |
just, ever, never, already, yet (negation & questions), always, how long, so far, recently, since (= from a starting point in the past), for (= over a period of time), today, this week / month etc. |
Present Perfect Continuous |
how long, for, since |