- •The past tenses
- •1. Read part of the Alibi, a radio play. What tense is used here? Find the examples.
- •2. Circle the letter of the correct answer.
- •4. Complete the conversation with the simple past tense or the past progressive form of the verbs in parentheses.
- •6. Combine these pairs of sentences. Use the simple past tense or the past progressive form of the verb. Remember to use commas when necessary.
- •8. Look at this picture for ten seconds (your teacher will show it). Write down what was happening. See how many details you can remember. What were the people doing? What were they wearing?
- •11. Look through the text. What is it about? Fill in with an appropriate past form.
- •12. Scan the text for about 2 minutes. What is its main idea? Fill in with an appropriate past form.
- •13. Complete the sentences using any appropriate past forms.
- •14. Identify the tenses in bold, then match them to their use. Underline the time adverbs used with each tense. Make up three sentences using them.
- •16. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past tense. Justify your answers.
- •17. Underline the correct words.
- •18. Look at the cartoons (pic. 4), then in teams try to explain what happened to each of the people using past tenses. Each correct sentence gets 1 point. The team with the most points is the winner.
- •19. Work in two teams. Make as many sentences as possible using the picture below (pic. 5).
- •The future tenses
- •1. Look at the picture (pic. 7). Describe the car. What's new about it? What's the same? Read an article about future transportation.
- •2. Read a radio interview with Professor Harry Vroom, a well-known researcher of the Future Watch Institute. There are fifteen verb forms that refer to the future. Find and underline them.
- •3. Look at the pictures (pic. 8). They show events from a day in Professor Vroom's life. Write predictions or guesses. Use the given words.
- •5. Radio listeners are calling in with questions for Professor Vroom. Complete the questions and answers. Use the words in parentheses.
- •7. Two people are traveling to the Car Show. Read their conversation and circle the most appropriate future forms.
- •8. Most Chinese restaurants in the United States give you fortune cookies at the end of your meal. Inside each cookie is a small piece of paper with a prediction about the future (pic. 9).
- •9. Complete your weekend schedule. If you have no plans, write free.
- •10. Work with the same partner as in Exercise 9. Look at this movie schedule. Then look at your schedules from Exercise 9. Decide which movie to see and when.
- •11. Read this article about setting goals. How is future expressed in the text?
- •12. Read the first sentence in each set. Then circle the letter of the sentences whose meaning is similar.
- •13. Combine these sentences.
- •15. Fill out this questionnaire.
- •16. Complete these three sentences. Then compare your answers with your groupmates' answers. How many different answers are there? Remember that all sentences refer to future time.
- •17. Work with a partner, interview him or her about some future plans. Ask questions such as:
- •20. It's 10 o'clock on Sunday night. The Miltons are at home making a statement to the police. Look at the pictures (pic. 10) and write their statement about the burglary. Use a variety of tenses.
- •24. Work in four groups. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English. Exchange your translations and correct mistakes if there are some.
- •Home exercises the past tenses
- •1. Underline the correct time expression. Identify the past forms.
- •2. Fill in with Past Simple or Continuous.
- •3. Fill in with Present Perfect or Past Simple.
- •8. Use the prompts to write sentences.
- •9. In this exercise you have to read the situation and then write a sentence. Use the verbs given in brackets. Read the example carefully first.
- •10. Are the underlined parts of these sentences right or wrong? Correct the ones which are wrong.
- •11. In this exercise you have to put the verb into the correct form, present perfect or past simple.
- •12. Complete these sentences using the verbs in brackets. You went back to your home town after many years and you found that many things were different.
- •13. Now you have to make sentences using the words in brackets.
- •14. Put the verb into the correct form, past perfect or past simple.
- •15. In this exercise you have to read a situation and then write a sentence.
- •16. In this exercise you have to read a situation and then write a sentence.
- •17. Put the verb into the correct form, past perfect continuous or past continuous.
- •18. Write about one of your older relatives. You can write about his/her:
- •The future tenses
- •2. Fill in the correct present or future forms.
- •3. Fill in: will or be going to.
- •4. Fill in the correct present or future forms.
- •6. Decide which form of the verb is correct (or more natural) in these sentences. Cross out the one which is wrong.
- •7. Answer these questions using the words in brackets.
- •8. In this exercise you have to put the verb into the correct form using will or going to.
- •10. This time you have to ask questions with Will you be -ing?
- •11. In this exercise you have to use will have done.
- •13. Underline the correct item.
- •14. All the sentences in this exercise are about the future. Put the verbs into the correct form.
- •15. This time you have to make one sentence from two sentences.
- •16. In this exercise you have to put in “when” or “if”.
- •17. Complete the following sentences using the words in brackets.
10. This time you have to ask questions with Will you be -ing?
1. You want your friend to give Tom a message this afternoon.
(you / see / Tom this afternoon?)
2. You want to use your friend's typewriter tomorrow evening.
(you / use / your typewriter tomorrow evening?)
3. Your friend is going shopping. You want him/her to buy some stamps for you at the post office.
(you / pass / the post office when you're in town?)
11. In this exercise you have to use will have done.
1. Jim always goes to bed at 11 o'clock. Tom is going to visit him at 11.30 this evening.
When Tom arrives, (Jim /go/to bed)
2. Tom is on holiday. He has very little money and he is spending too much too quickly. Before the end of his holiday, (he /spend / all his money)
3. Chuck came to Britain from the US nearly three years ago. Next Monday it will be exactly three years since he arrived. Next Monday (he / be / here / exactly three years)
12. Fill in the correct present or future forms.
We never use future forms after: as soon as, as long as, after, before, by the time, if (conditional), unless, in case, until/till, when (time conjunction), whenever, while, once, suppose/supposing, on condition that etc. The manager will see you as soon as he comes out of the meeting. I'll buy a new sofa when I get paid.
“When” used as a question word and “if” meaning “whether” particularly after the expressions: I don't know, I doubt, I wonder etc can both be used with future forms. When will John go to Paris? I don't know if the teacher will punish Tim for that (= whether) |
If you …………….. (want) to travel long distances on your bicycle, you must learn how to mend a puncture. As soon as your tyre ……………………. (become) flat, get off the bike or you ……………………. (damage) the wheel. Then turn the bicycle upside down. Once it ……………………(be) in position, remove the tyre using tyre-levers or, if you 5)...................................... (have) nothing else, use spoons. When the tyre ………………… (be) off, pump up the inner-tube. Put it in some water and turn it until you …………………. (see) bubbles coming from it. This is your puncture. Before you ………………….. (apply) the patch, you must clean and dry the area around the hole. After this you ………………………….. (put) glue around the hole and wait until it ………………………. (dry) a little. Then select a suitably sized patch. Stick the patch over the hole and don't forget to put some chalk over it. Unless you do this, the inner-tube ……………………… (stick) to the inside of the tyre. Replace the tube, pump up the tyre and ride away. I don't know if you ………………………… (be able to) remember all this, but it's worth trying because you never know when it ………………………… (be) useful to you.
13. Underline the correct item.
1. "I really need a drink." "OK, I'll buy / 'm buying you one. What would you like?"
2. "You look dreadful," "I know, I'm seeing / 'll see the doctor tomorrow at 4 o'clock."
3. "Did you remember to water the plants today?" "Oh no, I forgot; I'll water / water them now."
4. I've already told you why I can't see you tonight. I'm having / 'll have guests.
5. I'm sorry. I promise I'll stay / 'll be staying out of trouble in the future.
6. I'm sure he'll understand / 's going to understand if you explain it to him clearly.
7. I will have finished / will finish my exams by the end of August.
8. "I've burnt the dinner". "Never mind, I'll go / 'm going to the restaurant and get a takeaway pizza.'
9. I'll have been working / 'll work here for forty years by the time I retire next week.
10. "I forgot to invite Fergus to the party." "That's OK. I see / will be seeing him this afternoon."
11. If I have / will have enough money, I'll buy a new bicycle.
12. I don't think I'll have finished / 'll finish these exercises by 3 o'clock.
13. Excuse me, Colin. Will you be going / Will you go to the library this morning?
14. I'm not sure when I go / 'll go on holiday this year.
15. If we go / will go to Greece in the summer, we will visit the islands.
16. We can't get into the office until Jane arrives / will arrive with the key.
17. I doubt if they are / will be on time.