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Past simple versus past progressive

1. Choose between the Past Simple and the Past Progressive.

1. He gave/was giving up his job as a journalist and became/was becoming a teacher.

2. We went/ were going down in the lift when it suddenly stopped/was stopping.

3. It happened/was happening while I lived/was living in Bristol.

4. They lived/were living in London all their life.

5. “What did you do/were you doing between 9.00 and 10.00 yesterday?” asked the detective. – “I cleaned/was cleaning my house.”

2. Choose the appropriate adverbial of time.

1. Everyone was talking but stopped then/the moment Mr. Smith entered the room.

2. I lived in Glasgow until/by the time I was fourteen.

3. While/Once I was having breakfast this morning, my sister called from the States.

4. James always let me know at the time/ whenever he was going to be late.

5. Now, Mr. Star, what were you doing between/by ten and ten thirty last night?

3. Open the brackets using the Past Simple or the Past Progressive.

1. The driver (fall) asleep as he (drive) along.

2. I (not/understand) what (go on). Several people (shout) at me and one (wave) a newspaper in front of my face.

3. The only thing I disliked about him when we (study) at college was that he always (borrow) my things without asking.

4. She said she (get) more forgetful as she (grow) older.

5. The sun (shine) brightly and Maria (have) to put on her sunglasses.

6. He (use) to smoke forty cigarettes a day till he finally (give) up smoking.

7. I (visit) London last year.

8. He (enter) the office, (look) around and (come) up to the secretary.

9. What you (do) yesterday at seven p.m.?

10. Peter (meet) someone that night so I (stay) at the office and (work) for a few extra hours.

Present perfect versus present perfect progressive

TASK1. Choose the appropriate tense-form.

1. Sorry about the mess. I have painted/been painting the house.

2. How long has he lived/been living in Manchester? – All his life. He was born there.

3. They are in London now. They have lived/been living there for the last six months.

4. It has rained/been raining since morning already.

5. I’m afraid I have broken/been breaking one of your glasses.

All the present tenses

1. Open the brackets using the Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect, or Present Perfect Progressive.

1. You look tired. – Yes, I (work) non-stop all day.

2. The police (investigate) the break-in at the college since last September.

3. My mother-in-law always (grumble)!

4. Older people (become) more isolated now.

5. How long you (be) in business?

6. Carol already (make) ten phone calls and it’s only nine o’clock.

7. I can smell something nice. What you (cook)?

8. I (not/see) you for ages. What you (do)?

9. I’m fed up. I (wait) for the bus for forty minutes.

10. Where you (come) from? – I (come) from Minsk.

Reading comprehension

1. Read the text carefully. Clinton’s train

Clinton’s hands rested on the power-handle of the electric train, pressing it down. If he lifted them the ‘Dead Man’s Handle’ would rise and stop the train: stop it suddenly. Clinton had never yet heard of a driver who had died at his post, but the handle would save the train if such a thing ever happened.

Through the window in front his cool eyes watched the lines racing towards him; green signals rushed nearer and passed. He looked at the finger of the instrument below the window. It pointed to 68.

Clinton usually travelled at sixty-eight miles an hour on this part of the line. Further along he would reduce the speed to fifty-five, and later increase it again. This was his regular habit, and he nearly always drew into Brighton station as the hands of the clock pointed exactly to the hour. Today, so far he could judge, he was only half a minute behind time. He did not want to be late: it gave him a good deal of personal satisfaction to arrive at the right moment. Besides, it was a famous train: all the passengers depended on its arrival exactly at the minute.

He thought of the people in the crowded train behind him: all the doctors and nurses, the businessmen, the holiday-makers. He used to watch them leaving the station in Brighton, carrying away safely all the plans, all the ideas and troubles in their interesting heads.