3. Put the verb into the correct form: Present Perfect or Past Indefinite.

1. The children (to do) their homework. Now they can go to the skating rink. 2. You ever (to be) to Warsaw? – Yes, I (to be) there last year. 3. I already (to send) the telegram. 4. I (to send) the telegram yesterday. 5. I (not to see him) in January. 6. I (not to see) him since January. 7. We (not to receive) any letters from him lately. 8. They (to go) to the camp three days ago. 9. I just (to see) him. 10. You (to have) breakfast yet? 11. When you (to have) breakfast?

12. When you (to arrive) in Kiev? 13. He (to fall) asleep at half past seven.

14. I (to know) this engineer since I began to work at the plant. 15. At last I (to write) the composition; now I’ll go for a walk. 16. I (to get) up with a headache today and (to decide) to walk to my office instead of taking a bus. Now I am feeling much better. 17. You (to meet) any interesting people at the holiday camp? 18. She (not to have) a holiday for two years. 19. You (to enjoy) Mary’s singing? 20. Where you (to buy) these lovely gloves?

4. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous:

1. We (to walk) ten kilometres. We (to walk) for three hours. 2. The driver (to drink). I think someone else ought to drive. 3. I (to sleep) on every bed in this house and I don’t like any of then. 4. I (to sleep) since ten o’clock. 5. The students (to work) well this term. 6. I only (to hear) from him twice since he went away. 7. I (to work) for him for ten years. 8. He (to teach) in this school for five years. 9. I (to teach) hundreds of students but I never (to meet) such a hopeless class as this. 10. You (to hear) the news. Tom and Ann are engaged! That is not new. I (to know) it for ages! 11. It (to rain) for two hours and the ground is too wet to play. 12. Why you (to make) such a horrible noise? I (to lose) my key and I (to try) to wake up my wife by throwing stones at her window. 13. This is the third time you (to be) here. 14. John (to learn) English for seven years, and at last he (to master) the irregular verbs. 15. Samantha (to drive) for years and she has never had an accident.

5. Fill the spaces in the following sentences by using for or since:

1. I have been fishing ____ two hours. 2. J have been working in this office

____ a month. 3. They have been living in France ____1970. 4. I have known that ____ a long time. 5. That man has been standing there ____ six o’clock.

6. Things have changed ____ I was a child. 7. The kettle has been boiling ____

a quarter of an hour. 8. The central heating has been on ____ October. 9. He has been very ill ____ the last month. 10. I have been using this machine ____

twelve years. 11. We have been waiting ____ half an hour. 12. He has been in hospital ____ the accident. 13. He has not been speaking to me ____ the last meeting. 14. They have been on strike ____ November. 15. They have been quarreling ever ____ they got married.