- •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.
Put the verbs into the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous.
1. Betsy’s puppy _____ (die) by the time she got it to the vet.
2. Sam _____ (wait) for a phone call since he returned from school.
3. By six o’clock everyone _____ (go) home.
4. Miranda _____ (finish) the work before her boss returned.
5. Max _____ (practise) before three months before the concert.
6. Antony _____ (write) for six years before his work was published.
7. After my dad _____ (drive) for two hours, we stopped for a break.
8. Everyone _____ (finish) eating by the time Mr and Mrs Jones arrived.
9. She _____ (already / get up) by 6.30 o’clock when her alarm clock went off.
10. The girls _____ (study) for their exams since Christmas.
Use the necessary past tense form of the verb.
A. Tom Clag (1) _____ (study) chemistry for a year when he (2) _____ (realise) that he (3) _____ (not /be) very interested in the subject. He (4) _____ (always/be) fascinated by animals, and he (5) _____ (help) his aunt who worked as a vet ever since he was a teenager, so in the end he (6) _____ (decide) to become a vet.
B. It (1) _____ (be) nearly four o’clock and Mark (2) _____ (sit) in the changing room (3) _____ (feel) very nervous. He (4) _____ (feel) excited too, as he (5) _____ (wait) for a chance to play for Liverpool for a very long time. However, he (6) _____ (only just / join) the team and (7) _____ (never / play) in front of so many people before. Suddenly it (8) _____ (be) time to go and before he (9) _____ (know) it, he (10) _____ (run) towards the pitch along with the rest of the team.
Test work 8.
Complete the article. Use the necessary past tense form.
A Japanese businessman recently made medical history by surviving, without food and water in rear-freezing weather for about three weeks.
Mr. Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, climbed up Mount Rokko in western Japan for a barbecue party with friends but (1) _____ (decide) to come back down on his own. While he (2) _____ (walk) down the mountain, he (3) _____ (slip) in a stream and (4) ______ (break) his pelvis. Until he (5) _____ (become) unconscious, he survived by slipping the remains of a bottle of barbecue sauce that he (6) _____ (carry) with him at the time of the accident.
When searchers (7) _____ (rescue) him, he (8) _____ (appear) to be in a coma. His pulse was almost undetectable and his body temperature (9) _____ (drop) to 32 degrees. He (10) _____ (also/lose) a lot of weight. Doctors (11) _____ (treat) Mr. Uchikoshi for hypothermia, multiple organ failure and blood loss. By the time he was rescued, he (12) _____ (miss) for twenty-five days.
Remarkably, he (13) _____ recover fully. One of his doctors said, “He was frozen alive and survived. If we can understand why, it opens up all sorts of possibilities for the future.
Use the necessary past tense form.
1. He (to look up) from the card he (to study). 2. It (not to be) until Doreen actually (to leave) that Jan (to realize) just how much she (to depend) on her. 3. Bart (to sleep) heavily, but Jan (to lie) sleepless in spite of the sedative he (to give) her. 4. All her anger (to go), the last traces of hysteria (to disappear). Her mind (to be) clear as it (not to be) clear in many weeks. 5. The New Year (to bring) them luck, she (to think). 6. He (to feel) like a man who (to come) out of a fog-filled tunnel where he (to grope) blindly for months. 7. He (to realize) that he (not to hear) her laugh like that since before her illness. 8. Mrs. Carlton (to switch on) the light above her bed and now (to lie) back against her pillow with a thermometer between her lips. 9. “I must be going.” He (to lie), and she (to know) he (to lie). 10. They (to walk) slowly to the seat on which she and Bart (to sit) on the first day she (to come) to Pine Ridge and (to sit) there in silence. 11. They (to sit) for a long time over their coffee and the cat (to stretch) himself on Bart’s knee and (to purr). 12. When he (to enter) the room and (to see) Jan leaning forward to welcome him he (to feel) he never (to be away) from her. 13. Bart (to open) his mouth to protest that he (to hear) it (to take) months to get into a public sanatorium but Dr Laide (to go on) quickly before he (can) speak. 14. The air of the flat (to be) heavy and stale as it always (to be), but she (to breathe) it with satisfaction. 15. She (to be) home and free, and today the hyacinth Bart (to bring) to her (to break) the first bud.