- •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.
Exercises:
Read the sentences and comment on the ways future actions can be expressed.
1. Next year I will have been living in Moscow for thirty years.
2. Next month we shall have owned this house for ten years.
3. When he is forty, he will have been learning English for twenty-five years.
4. By the time the manager turns up, the customers will have been waiting for him for several hours.
5. He complains that by May he will have been reading “War and Peace” for five months.
6. I shall have been staying here just a year this July.
Control work Future Tenses
I. Open the brackets:
1) I (come) home, (undress) and (phone) my little brother.
2) The train (start) at 3 o’clock.
3) – What are your plans for the holidays?
– I (leave) for Ekaterinburg.
4) By the end of May the students (finish) the school year.
5) I’ve bought a wonderful doll for my niece. I’m sure she (run) up and down the room with joy.
6) When my mother (arrive) we (have) dinner with all the family.
7) By 2013 my aunt (work) at the University for 3 years.
8) Next year I (buy) a new car.
9) – My son has won the prize!!!
– Oh, really? I (call) to congratulate him.
10) Tomorrow from 6 till 9 my son (do) his homework.
11) After you (do) this exercise, you (have) your favourite cake.
12) My husband (come) home as soon as he (hear) the news.
II. Translate the sentences:
1) Он извинится, когда поймет, что неправ.
2) Ко вторнику мы перевезем все свои вещи.
3) Если ты не исправишь ошибки, ты сделаешь их снова.
4) К нашему приезду, строители будут строить наш дом уже 3 месяца.
5) Завтра, когда ты позвонишь, я буду писать изложение и уже сделаю свое домашнее задание.
6) Я собираюсь навестить свою подругу. Завтра в 3 она будет ждать меня у метро.
7) На следующей неделе я уезжаю в Москву на выставку. Выставка откроется 25 ноября и закончится 30 ноября. Но к 29 ноября я уже закончу все свои дела и 30 ноября поезд отправится обратно в Елабугу в 2 часа дня.
8) Ты будешь играть в компьютерные игры, когда ты уберешься в своей комнате. Хотя, я уверена, ты будешь лежать без сил.
9) Я приду, включу компьютер и буду искать в интернете доклад.
10) Как только солдаты приедут домой их родители устроят им настоящий праздник.
Test your tenses
Use the right form of the verb.
1. When morning came, the storm already (to stop), but the snow still (to fall). 2. Yesterday by eight o'clock he (to finish) all his homework, and when I (to come) to his place at nine, he (to read). I (to wait) for permission to go abroad for three weeks already, but I (not to receive) the visa yet.
Everybody (to be) at the door of the museum, but my friend (not yet to come). 5. We (to drink) tea when the telephone (to ring). 6. Johnny noticed that everybody (to look) at him, and he (to feel) shy. 7. Light (to travel) more quickly than sound. 8. When I (to come) to Pete's house last Sunday, he (to read) a new book. He (to say) he (to give) it to me soon. Today I (to take) it from him. Now I (to read) it. I (to finish) it by Friday. If you like, I (to give) it to you on Saturday when you (to come) to see me. 9. When will he come? We (to wait) for him for half an hour already. 10. On leaving the hall, the students (to thank) the professor who (to deliver) the lecture. 11. We already (to cover) about ten miles when Peter, who (to look) out of the window for the last five or ten minutes, suddenly exclaimed, "Here is the station!"