- •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.
Past Perfect, Past Indefinite or Present Perfect?
Exercise 178
Disastrous David
David Williams of Milchester _____ (have) such a terrible time this year that he ought to be in The Guinness Book of Records. The trouble _____ (start) one morning last January when David _____ (find) that his car _____ (go) from outside his house. He _____ (not see) it since.
In February David's joy at winning £200,000 on the football pools _____ (not last) long - he _____ (forget) to post the letter. In March he _____ (buy) a new car, but he _____ (not have) it more than a week when someone _____ (crash) into the back of it. These disasters _____ (continue) right up to the present time. Two days ago David _____ (sit) on a seat that someone _____ (finish) painting only minutes before. He _____ (have) on a new suit that he _____ (buy) only the previous week.
August _____ (be) the worst month so far this year. David _____ (spend) three days of his holiday at airports because of strikes. When he _____ (arrive) home, he _____ (discover) that someone _____ (break) into his house. His video-recorder and television _____ (disappear).
David doesn't know what he _____ (do) to deserve all this bad luck. He just hopes his luck will change soon.
Activity
Write a letter to the newspaper about a piece of good luck or bad luck that happened to you.
Exercise 179
Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.
When we reached the city center we couldn't find a parking space, so we had decided to go by bus the next time.
We had to wait for hours at the airport because the bad weather had delayed all the flights.
We missed our train, so by the time we reached the theatre, the play ended and the audience was leaving the theatre.
At the end of their meal they found they couldn't pay the bill because they didn't bring any money with them.
The children were thrilled when they unwrapped the electronic toys, but when they discovered that nobody bought a battery they were disappointed.
When I came out of the cinema I had found that a thief had taken my car radio.
At first the authorities thought the athlete had been taking drugs, but they soon realized they mixed up the results of the tests.
When the film star came into the restaurant I didn't recognize her because I didn't see any of her films.
Many modern medicines were not invented by western scientists, but by tribal people who had been using them for generations before the Europeans arrived.
10. I was pleased to see my old college friends at the conference last week
as we didn't see each other since we finished our course.
CONVERSATIONS
Exercise 180
Complete the dialogues. Fill in the blanks with the Past Perfect or the past Indefinite, the Past Continuous or the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs in brackets.
Jean has called to see her boyfriend Gary.
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Gary: |
Jean, I'm surprised to see you. |
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Jean: |
Well, I think you owe me an explanation. |
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Gary:
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Me? What about you? 1 I saw (I / see) you in the cafe last night. 2 We had arranged (we / arrange) to meet at the cinema, if you remember. |
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Jean: |
So why 3 didn't you come (you / not / come) into the cafe if you saw me? |
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Gary: |
4 __________ (i / be) too angry. And cold. 5 __________ (I / wait) outside the cinema for three-quarters of an hour. |
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Jean: |
But why? 6 __________ (you / not / get) my note? |
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Gary: |
What note? |
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Jean: |
The note 7 __________ (I / leave) here yesterday afternoon. When 8 __________ (I / go) past the cinema yesterday lunchtime 9 __________ (I / notice) that 10 __________ (they / change) the film. So 11 __________ (I / put) a note under your door to tell you. |
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Gary: |
12 __________ (I / not / find) any note. |
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Jean: |
It must be here. Let me look. Yes. Oh dear. I'm afraid 13 __________ (it / slip) under the mat. |
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Gary: |
Oh. I'm sorry I was angry. It's just that, well, while 14 __________ (i / wait), I was worried about 15 ___________ (what / happened) to you. And then, 16 __________ (I / see) you in the cafe. 17 __________ (you / laugh) with your friends and 18 __________ (I / realize) that 19 ___________ (you / sit) there quite comfortably with them all evening. 20 _________ (I / just / lose) my temper. |
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Jean: |
Never mind. Let's forget it. Where shall we go now? |
Exercise 181
Read the text.