Grammar exercises

1. Write the third person singular of the following verbs:

want lose fly do

read catch buy go

eat watch study

think crash carry

2. Complete the sentences using the following verbs in the form of the Present Indefinite Tense. Then make them negative and interrogative. Some of the verbs can be used several times:

to receive to take to be to leave to send to study to take to work to spend to supply to get

1. The Olympic Games …. place once in four years. 2. I … a student. I … programming at a technical school. 3. These students … all their money on books. 4. I …. letters to many other companies. 5. They usually … in the main office. 6. Your plane … in an hour's time. 7. Twice a year students … their exams. 8. The university campus … the students with all necessary facilities: lecture halls, laboratories, libraries and a conference hall, etc. 9. This student … new books from the library every week. 10. My parents always … their holidays at the seaside. 11. I ….. a scholarship. 12. It … you twenty minutes to get to university.

3. Open the brackets and put the verbs into the correct forms of the Present Indefinite Tense. Translate the sentences:

1. Why you (not / to use) this method? – It (to be) very complicated. 2. You (to like) science fiction? 3. We (to do) English lessons three times a week. 4. Mr. Johnson (not / to have) a private office. 5. An atheist (not / to believe) in God. 6. The Thames (to be) a big river in Britain. 7. Liars are people who (not / to tell) the truth. 8. I (to remember) the scene very well. 9. If you need money, why you (not / to get) a job? 10. The English word ‘holiday’ (to come) from ‘holy day’ which can mean ‘a religious festival or feast’. 11. I (not / to understand) the word particle. What it (to mean)? 12. The term mass media (to refer) to people and organizations that provide news and information for the public. 13. Information technology, IT, (to comprise) electronic computer technology and telecommunication technology.

4. Read and translate. Put questions to the words in bold:

1. We like to go to the students’ club. 2. My cousin has a beautiful voice so she sings in the University choir. 3. The dean’s office coordinates the faculty activities, arranges curriculum, sets exams and credit schedules for every term. 4. They receive the Morning Star. 5. I know much about politics. 6. Sometimes people do stupid things. 7. The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 29,756 kilometers per second. The Sun is an enormous nuclear power source. It transforms hydrogen into helium, releasing light and heat. The surface of our planet absorbs the heat from the Sun and emits it the same way that pavement continues to give off heat in the summer after the sun goes down. Every square meter of our planet’s surface gets about 342 watts of energy from the Sun every year.