- •Past Continuous (Progressive)
- •Exercises:
- •Translate the sentences using the necessary tense form. Divide all the sentences into different groups according to the usage of their tense forms.
- •Make the right choice.
- •Use the right form of the verbs in brackets.
- •Test work 6.
- •Exercises:
- •Use the Past Indefinite or the Past Perfect.
- •Put the verbs in the Past Perfect or the Past Simple.
- •Put the verbs in the Past Perfect or the Past Simple.
- •Test work 7.
- •Put the verbs in the correct past tense.
- •Put the verbs in the correct past tense.
- •Past Perfect Continuous
- •Exercises:
- •Use the right form of the verb.
- •Translate using the right form of the verb.
- •Explain the difference between the following pairs of sentences.
- •Put the verbs into the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous.
- •Use the necessary past tense form of the verb.
- •Test work 8.
- •Complete the article. Use the necessary past tense form.
- •Use the necessary past tense form.
- •Control work. Past Tenses.
- •I. Use the necessary verb form.
- •II. Translate.
- •Future Indefinite (Simple)
- •Exercises:
- •1. Use the Present Indefinite or the Future Indefinite instead of the infinitives in brackets. Formulate the rule expressing the usage of these tenses.
- •2. Use the Future Indefinite instead of the infinitives in brackets.
- •3. What tense forms can be used to express a future action? Use the right tense form.
- •4. Use the Present Indefinite or the Future Indefinite instead of the infinitives in brackets.
- •Test work 9.
- •Future Continuous (Progressive)
- •Exercises:
- •Translate from Russian into English using the right form of the verb.
- •Read the text and find out the ways of expressing future actions.
- •Future Perfect
- •Exercises:
- •Translate from Russian into English using Future Perfect.
- •Use the required future or present tense instead of the infinitives in brackets.
- •Future Perfect Continuous (Progressive)
- •Exercises:
- •Read the sentences and comment on the ways future actions can be expressed.
- •Control work Future Tenses
- •I. Open the brackets:
- •II. Translate the sentences:
- •Test your tenses
- •Use the right form of the verb.
- •Make the right choice.
- •Translate using the right form of the verb.
Past Continuous (Progressive)
was,were Ving |
Affirmative |
Interrogative |
Negative |
I was working. |
Was I working? |
I was not working. |
He was working. |
Was he working? |
He was not working. |
She was working. |
Was she working? |
She was not working. |
It was working. |
Was it working? |
It was not working. |
We were working. |
Were we working? |
We were not working. |
You were working. |
Were you working? |
You were not working. |
They were working. |
Were they working? |
They were not working. |
Past Continuous (Progressive) is used to express:
an action going on at the past moment:
Mark was playing the guitar at 5 o’clock yesterday.
When the teacher entered the classroom the pupils were talking to each other.
I was sure she was still waiting for me.
a limited period of time in the past:
I was working in the garden from five till seven.
It was snowing all day long yesterday.
two parallel actions in the past:
I was having a shower while my sister was doing her homework.
They were discussing the problem when the rest of the guests were watching a music show on TV.
He was thinking of how to help her as he was walking down the street.
repeated actions characteristic of certain persons in the past expressing a negative attitude to the people described:
He was very absent-minded and was constantly losing his things.
She was always talking at the lessons.
a polite request or suggestion in such expressions as I was wondering, I was hoping, I was thinking:
I was wondering if you’d like to come to the theatre with me.
I was hoping you could possibly find it interesting to read my book.
future continuous actions viewed from the past:
She told me she was giving a party next Saturday.
It was known that mother was coming home next month.
Exercises:
Use the Past Indefinite or the Past Continuous instead of the infinitives in brackets. Write out all the verbs in the Past Indefinite and Past Continuous and give their first form. What changes occur in the spelling? Formulate the rule of spelling.
1. She (to go) to the back door, and as she (to rai
se) her hand to knock, the young man (to open) the door suddenly. 2. While the eggs (to boil) I (to go out) into the hall and (to phone) Jo. 3. He (to begin) to walk fast down the hedge; he couldn’t see where he (to go). 4. She (to invite) him to the party she (to give) on Saturday. 5. He (to pause). They all (to look) at him now, interested. 6. She (to have) the satisfaction of seeing that Betty (to get) more and more ill at ease. 7. I (to wash), (to brush) my hair and we (to start). 8. It (to rain) hard, and she (to run) for a taxi. 9. Near her a small boy (to play) silently. 10. She (to look up) to see if we (to listen). 11. Next day, when the car (to come) we (to vanish) into the bush. 12. And all the while she (to think) how to get the money from Christie. 13. For the first time he (to notice) Heidi (to wear) a new dress: a simple affair of deep blue. 14. Lizzi (to eat) busily and (not to raise) her head 15. It so (to happen) that she (to dine) that very evening at Timothy’s. 16. Mrs. Pimley (to come) into the drawing-room where we all (to sit) reading the papers after breakfast.