Present Simple, Future Simple, Future Progressive or Present Progressive

6. Correct the mistakes, if any. Be ready to comment on the rules.

1. We leaving soon, in a day or two. 2. Are you sure that he leaves on Saturday? 3. Call me as soon as he will leave. 4. They’ll calling again in half an hour. 5. If he call at night, don’t answer the phone. 6. I’m calling him and then leaving him. 7. He always calls very late! 8. I thought he will call you. 9. I thought he would call you when he would learnt everything. 10. He realized they’re calling him. 11. I’ll do my homework, while Mother cooks the supper. 12. They play tennis tonight. They’re always playing it on Saturday. 13. I’m seeing off my friends tonight. They’ll leave at midnight. 14. If they have dinner when you’ll come, they have to invite you. 15. I won’t hear the telephone if I’ll be doing my homework at that time. I’ll listen to the cassette. 16. Wages are not increasing all the time, prices do. 17. Will they still wait at six? – They’ll wait till he will come. 18. They redecorate their flat, they’ll do it till May, I believe. 19. You’ll be recognizing her the moment you’ll be seeing her. She’ll wear dark glasses. 20. Will you dine out tonight? Then I’m calling you at six.

Past Simple or Past Progressive

single or repeated past actions	past actions seen between the beginning and the end
Past Simple	Past Progressive
I looked and looked, but saw nothing interesting in the book	I was looking at the book, I was trying to see something interesting.

7. Insert a suitable verb in the right form.

*do *look *leave *walk *live *burn *move *hear *play *see *meet *eat *have *iron *cook *come *think *watch *cry *fly

1. This time last year I ___ in France. 2. This time last year I ___ for the USA. 3. What ___ you ___ when you saw the fire? 4. We shouted and waved to her, but she ___. 5. There’s a strange noise. ___ you ___ ? 6. There wasn’t a sound in the building. You ___ anything. 7. I ___ home when I ___ Kate. 8. Jane ___ her finger while she ___ her dress. 9. How long ___ you ___ tennis yesterday? 10. Mother ___ all the day and said we ___ too much. 11. When Father ___, we ___ dinner. 12. At the moment I ___ that I was right. 13. Two girls at the back ____ a chat. They didn’t hear what the teacher ___ them. 14. What ___ you ___ about? You looked so sad. 15. We ___ in Moscow for 5 years, then we ___ to Voronezh.

Past Simple or used to

repeated, habitual actions in the past
the habit may still exist	the habit was dropped later
Past Simple	USED TO
I drank a lot of milk in my childhood, and I still like it.	I used to drink a lot of milk in my childhood. I never drink it now.

8. Insert a verb in the proper form. Some of the sentences will need a negative form.

1. This building ___ a hotel some years ago. 2. There ___ a lot of trees in Voronezh. 3. I sometimes ___ back to teachers in my early teens. 4. I ___ a lot of ice cream in summer when I was a child, I still spend a lot of money on it. 5. We ____ in a more comfortable house last year. 6. They say cats ___ mice in the old times. Now we have to buy Whiskas for them. 7. When there was a lot of snow in winter, children ___ funny snowmen. 8. When at school, I ___ English Grammar far worse. 9. I remember a lot of poems which I ___ in my childhood. 10. In the XIX century women ___ trousers.