- •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.
Exercise 2
Match the sentences with the meaning of the tense used in each of them.
10. They are getting married next week. (They’ve already sent the invitations.) |
a. emphasis on duration b. temporary situation c.repeated action expressing annoyance d.emphasis on number e. habitual action
f. recently completed action
|
1. …..e….. |
2. ………. |
3. ………. |
4. ………. |
5. ………. |
6. ……….. |
7. ………. |
8. ………. |
9. ………. |
10. ………. |
Exercise 3
Fill in with the Present Indefinite, the Present Continuous, the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous.
Arthur:
Sandra: Arthur: Sandra: Arthur:
Sandra: |
I ___’ve been searching ___ (search)for a house for a week now but so far I _____ (not /find) anything suitable. Why _____ (you / want) to move? Well, the people living next to me _____ (be) the main problem. They _____ (always / argue), especially at night. Oh, dear! _____ (you / ever / complain) to them? Yes, but they _____ (not / stop). They _____ (keep on) making noise. I _____ (not / be able) to sleep well lately, and I _____ (feel) sleepy all week. How awful! |
Exercise 4
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct present forms.
Dear Sir / Madam,
I ___ am writing ___ (write) on behalf of Midfield School. Every year, our students_____(choose) a project on an environmental problem. Then, they_____(work) to raise money to help to solve this problem. We_____(recently / see) your advertisements about protecting dolphins, so, for the last few weeks, we_____(try) to learn about the dolphins that_____(live) in the sea near here. We_____ (already / be) on two boat trips and_____(persuade) local fishermen to change their fishing nets because the ones they_____ (use) at the moment can trap dolphins. Could you please send the children some World Wildlife Fund posters to add to the work that they_____(do) so far?
Yours faithfully,
J. Hopkins (Teacher)
Exercise 5
Write the letter in full sentences. Use present forms.
Dear Ted,
1. I / write / you / London.
2. I be / here / a week / and / I enjoy myself / very much.
3. So far / I see / most of / important historic places.
4. I usually / spend / several hours every day / in museums and galleries.
5. The hotel / I stay / be / lovely / but / be very expensive.
6. So I plan / move / cheaper one / rest / my stay.
7. Tomorrow / I take / trip through Kent / which / I look forward to.
8. I hope / you be / OK.
See you soon,
Richard
Exercise 6
Translate the sentences into English using the present Indefinite, the Present Continuous, the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous.
Ты понимаешь, что ты наделал. - Ничего особенного. Все так поступают в подобных случаях.
Всегда она со всеми ссорится! Я уверена, что по соседству нет ни одного человека, с кем бы она хоть раз не поссорилась.
Где же ты был все это время? Мы искали тебя повсюду.
О чем ты думаешь, Изабелла? – Так, ни о чем.
Я рад сообщить вам, доктор Мэнсон, что большинством голосов комитет решил остановить свой выбор на вас.
А где они сейчас? Ты с ними переписываешься? – Да, конечно. Но что-то давно от них не было писем.
Ты весь день на ногах! Пора и отдохнуть.
Мы работаем вместе уже пятнадцать лет и привыкли понимать друг друга.
Я слышал, вы многого добились в жизни.
Тони. Она плачет. Ну, успокой ее, скажи ей что-нибудь.
Я давно собиралась зайти к вам, да все как-то не было времени.
Что вы здесь делаете? Разве вы не знаете, что здесь опасно оставаться во время работы реактора.
Вы даете мне понять, что все эти долгие месяцы я напрасно тратил время?
Ты не слушаешь, что я говорю. Что с тобой случилось?
Хозяин гостиницы предупредил меня, что, если моей жене не станет лучше, нам лучше обратиться к врачу.
Я не могу выставить эту картину, – сказал художник. – Я вложил в нее слишком много своей души.
Exercise 7