- •Perfect tense forms
- •I’ve understood everything.
- •I’ve filled in my application form. Here it is.
- •1. Find the reference point. Underline the words which indicate it (by Monday, they complained, etc.).
- •Present perfect
- •2. Match the tense form and the adverbial of time.
- •3. Complete the sentences, using suitable nouns.
- •4. Write down participle 2 of the following verbs.
- •5. Complete using Present Perfect:
- •6. Make sure you choose have or has correctly.
- •8. Say what you have done today and what you haven’t.
- •10. Use a suitable adverbial. Always, never, already, just, recently, lately, this week, this year, today, this morning, so far, up to now, for ages, yet, the last week
- •13. Ask questions of different types getting some interesting information. Use present perfect.
- •14. Correct the mistakes, if any:
- •16. Translate.
- •Present perfect progressive
- •Model: I bought a car last year. – How had you got to college before?
- •5. Translate.
- •Past perfect progressive
- •1. Match the verb which indicates the moment of speaking in the past and the action before it. Use any subject you like.
- •5. Correct the mistakes, if any.
- •6. Translate into English:
- •Future perfect
- •Revision through comparison
- •Present Perfect or Past Perfect
- •7. Complete, using Present or Past Perfect (Progressive).
- •Progressive or Perfect Progressive
- •8. Choose the correct variant from the brackets.
- •9. Insert the proper tense form of any suitable verb.
- •10. Translate into English.
- •Tense forms in reported speech
- •2. Match the beginning and the end.
- •4. Choose all the tense forms possible in this context.
- •5. Translate into English.
Future perfect
Будущие перфектные формы во многих случаях не являются необходимыми, а лишь подчеркивают завершенность. I’ll do it by tomorrow. = I’ll have done it by tomorrow.
Will you have installed the computer by tomorrow? We need it badly. Will you install the computer by tomorrow, or shall we wait till Monday?
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*1. Americans like to look confidently into the future and to foretell what actions will be completed by some definite dates.
Model: By 2020 we’ll have been married for 20 years.
1. By this time next year the university __________. 2. By next Monday __________. 3. By the 1st of July __________. 4. By the 1st of September __________. 5. By the time I grow old, I __________. 6. By the time I get married, my __________. 7. By 2010 we __________. 8. By the time our exams begin __________. 9. By 3000 America __________. 10. By the first of January Russia __________.
Revision through comparison
Present Perfect and Past Simple
Speaking about the present |
Speaking about the past |
No exact time |
Exact time |
connected with the present moment |
separated from the present moment |
He has just left. |
He left just now. |
1. Insert Present Perfect or Past Simple.
1. How long __ you ___ him? 2. The clock isn’t slow, it ___. 3. ___ the train ___ yet? 4. When ___ you ___ him today? 5. The play ___ two hours. We all __ it very much. 6. ___ you ever ___ to give up smoking? 7. ___ your mother ever ___ when you broke toys? 8. __ the postman ___ this morning? 9. Why ___n’t the milkman ___ this morning? It’s 2 o’clock already and I need milk for the dinner. 10. I’m angry with Ann. She ___ me waiting at the university for a long time.
2. Match the Russian sentence and the English form.
1. Ты пообедал? |
have had dinner
had dinner
dined out
have dined out |
2. Ты сегодня обедал? | |
3. Ты когда сегодня обедал? | |
4. Ты вчера обедал? | |
5. Ты на этой неделе всегда обедал в ресторане? | |
6. Ты обедал в ресторане на прошлой неделе? | |
7. Он что, пообедал в ресторане, а потом еще дома? |
3. Correct the mistakes, if any.
1. I’ve seen nothing interesting at school today. – And when did you leave school today? 2. Somebody shouted something strange just now. 3. Nobody have ever told me the truth in my childhood. 4. When have you understood everything? 5. I have done my homework on Sunday. 6. Little changed here so far. 7. Few people ever seen ghosts. 8. Two of them have already passed the exam last week. 9. Did the Dean just left? 10. I often saw my boy-friend the last week.
4. Translate into English.
1. Я все понял. 2. Я всегда хотел все понять. 3. Ты меня вчера не понял. 4. Ты меня никогда не понимал. 5. Ты уже тогда меня не понимал. 6. Понял? 7. Ты всегда прикидываешься, что меня не понимаешь. 8. Ты его тогда понял? 9. Ты сам-то понял что сказал? 10. Вхожу вчера в квартиру, и понимаю… 11. Я тебя уже года два не понимаю. 12. Я тебя сегодня утром плохо понял.
5. Complete, using either Present Perfect or Past Simple.
1. Not long ago our dog ___ 2. Recently my boy-friend ___ 3. Over the last three years our neighbours ___ 4. Last week our tom-cat ___ 5. This week my mobile telephone ___ 6. All my friends ___ the last week. 7. The other day a very weird stranger ___ 8. Few girls ___ lately. 9. Nothing ___ wrong so far. 10. Something ___ just now.
Perfect or Perfect Progressive
retrospect = looking back and summing up | |
no progress |
action in progress |
It hasn’t rained for a month |
It has been raining for a month |
with some verbs naming states, not actions | |
no emphasis on progress |
emphasis on progress |
I have lived here for ten years |
I have been living here for ten years |
6. Translate into English.
1. Я никогда никого не ждала. 2. Я тебя жду уже 20 минут. 3. Я знала, что меня давно ждут. 4. К 2020 они проживут вместе 50 лет. 5. К 2010 они построят дом. 6. Она не знала как давно он здесь живет. 7. Мы были уверены, что все закончится к 3 часам. 8. Мы пожалели, что потратили так много времени впустую, простояли на платформе целый час. 9. Повсюду были лужи. Дождь шел всю ночь. 10. Я сердился, что прождал ее два часа, а она так и не пришла. 11. Ты в последнее время много куришь. 12. Что ты читал в последнее время? 13. Она пожаловалась, что совсем не спала. 14. Снега давно не было. 15. В последнее время часто идет снег?