- •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.
Detectives at Work
Tom and Nick are watching the house across the street. Something strange is happening. Put the verbs in brackets in the Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous to make correct sentences.
Tom: Nick:
Tom: Nick:
Tom:
Nick: Tom:
Nick: Man: |
What are you staring (you stare) at? There's a man at the Johnsons' house. He doesn't live (not live) there. I wonder what he 1 __________ (do). Perhaps he 2 __________ (visit) the Johnsons. No. They're not at home. They both 3 __________ (work) in town. They 4 _________ (catch) the same train as Dad every morning. It's strange. He 5 _________ (look) at the house very carefully. Now he 6 _________ (try) to open the gate, but it's locked. Look! He 7 __________ (climb) over the garden wall. I can't see him now. Let's follow him. I want to see what he 8 __________ (do). He 9 __________ (go) to the garage. He 10 __________ (carry) a ladder. Now he 11 _________ (put) the ladder up to the bedroom window! He must be a burglar… Hey! You! What 12 _________ (you do)? It's all right, boys. I'm an insurance agent. I 13 __________ (examine) the storm damage to the roof. The Johnsons 14 __________ (know) that I'm here. |
CONVERSATIONS
Exercise 105
Complete these dialogues using the missing verbs from the list in the Present Continuous or the Present Indefinite.
Dialogue 1
Sue: Mark:
Sue:
Mark:
Sue:
Mark:
Sue:
Mark: Sue: |
What 1 are you doing now? I 2 _____ through these old film magazines. Look, here's an old picture of Jack Nickolson. Oh, I 3 _____ he 4 _____ awful! And his suit 5 _____ him properly. Yes, I 6 _____. And he 7 _____ to be really angry. I wonder what he 8 _____ about. He 9 _____ in that new film that's on at the Odeon now, isn't he? Yes, I saw it last night. He 10 _____ very different now. He 11 _____ a lot more. I 12 _____ it's a good film I 13 _____ it tonight. Stuart 14 _____ me. Actually, he 15 _____ very nice to me these days. He probably 16 _____ to borrow some money. I 17 _____ . That explains it. |
do look
think, look not / fit agree, appear think be
look weigh hope, see take, be
want see |
Dialogue 2
Caller: Man:
Caller: Man:
Caller: Man:
Caller:
Man: |
Good morning. 1 __is___ Mr. Green there? No, he 2 _____ here. He 3 _____ at the moment. He usually 4 _____ until 4 p. m. What about Mrs. Green? Where 5 _____ she? She 6 _____ the shopping. She always 7 _____ the shopping on Thursday afternoons. Where 8 _____ the children? They 9 _____ football. They always 10 _____ football after school. How 11 _____ you _____ all this? Who are you? I 12 _____ the burglar! |
be not / be, work work be do do be play, play
know
be |
Dialogue 3
June: Mum: June:
Mum:
June:
Mum: June:
Mum: |
Hi, Mum! Hello, June. Where 1 are you calling from? I 2 _____ at work at the moment. My boss
Well, why 5 _____ you _____ ? Is there anything wrong? No, I just want you to know that I 6 _____ home next Saturday. What time 7 _____ your train _____ in Leeds? It 8 _____ London at 11 o'clock and 9 _____ in Leeds at 2 o'clock. See you on Saturday then. |
call be have often / take phone
come
arrive leave arrive
|
Exercise 106
Translate the sentences from Russian into English. Mind the use of the Present Continuous.
В чём дело? Почему ребёнок плачет? - Он всегда плачет, когда хочет
есть. В это время я обычно даю ему молока, но сейчас я задержалась
(опаздываю), так как разговариваю с тобой.
Телефон звонит! Возьми трубку. Я думаю, это звонит моя сестра.
Мальчики, почему вы всё время спорите и ссоритесь из-за пустяков?! Я же знаю, что вы большие друзья.
Я не понимаю того, что объясняет преподаватель. - Но ведь ты не слушаешь. Вот я слушаю его очень внимательно и всё понимаю.
Я смотрю в окно и вижу своих друзей. Они играют в футбол. Миша не играет в футбол. Он играет со своей собакой Тоби. Он любит с ней играть. Я тоже люблю играть с Тоби. Он хороший и очень смешной. У него длинные уши и короткий хвост. Тоби любит играть с детьми.
Что делает твой брат? - Он смотрит телевизор. Сегодня показывают очень интересный фильм. - Он смотрит телевизор каждый вечер? - Нет, он обычно читает или рисует.
Ты всё ещё читаешь? Очень поздно. Выключи свет. Я так устала, что засыпаю над книгой.
Сегодня холодно и идёт дождь. В это время года здесь часто идёт дождь.
О чём ты думаешь, Изабелла? - Так ни о чём.
10. Тони, она плачет. Ну, успокой её, скажи ей что-нибудь.
11. Ты не слушаешь, что я говорю. Чтостобойслучилось?