- •Contents
- •2. Present Continuous
- •3. Present Simple
- •Ex. 3. Supply the following sentences with one of the given adverbs: usually, never, often, always, generally, sometimes, occasionally.
- •4.Present Simple vs. Present Continuous.
- •5. Past Simple
- •Ex. 1. Put the verbs in the past simple tense.
- •6. Past Continuous
- •7. Past Simple vs. Past Continuous.
- •8. Present Perfect Simple
- •9. Present Perfect vs. Past Simple
- •Compare
- •Compare these sentences.
- •10. Present Perfect Continuous
- •Compare these sentences
- •12. Past Perfect
- •13. Future Forms
- •1. Future Simple
- •2. Be going to (do)
- •3. Present Continuous1 with a future meaning.
- •4. Present Simple with a future meaning.
- •5. Future Continuous
- •Ex. 1. Put the following sentences in the negative and question forms (yes/no questions).
- •Ex. 2. Put the verbs into the correct form.
- •Ex. 3. Make one sentence from two sentences.
- •Ex. 4. Are you (your friend, your parents) going to do/ not going to do these things tomorrow?
- •Ex. 5. Put the verb in the correct form using willorgoing to.
- •Ex. 6. What will these people be doing tomorrow from 8 till 8-30 in the morning.
- •Ex. 7. Write some sentences about your plans for the next few days.
- •Ex. 8. Choose the correct verb form in the following pairs of sentences.
- •14. Revision of Tenses
- •15. Modal verbs (basic rules).
- •2. Must – have to – to be to.
- •Ex. 5. Put in must or have to.
- •Ex. 6. Put in must or had to.
- •Ex. 7. Make questions with have to. Some are present and some are past.
- •Ex. 8. Make negative sentences with have to.
- •Ex. 9. Underline the correct verb form.
- •4. Should (do)
- •16. Questions in Different Tenses (Revision).
- •1. General questions.
- •2. Special questions.
- •3. Alternative questions.
- •17. Reported Speech
- •Verb in the past.
- •18. There (is) and It (is)
- •Ex. 3. Complete the dialogue with used to or didn’t use to
- •Ex. 4. Translate the sentences into English.
- •20. Conditionals
- •Ex. 2. Open the brackets using type 2 conditional.
- •Ex. 3. Give advice using type 2 conditional.
- •Ex. 5. Rewrite the following story using type 3 conditional.
- •E.G. If Ron hadn’t slept until twelve yesterday, he wouldn’t have failed the exam. Continue rewriting the story. Ex. 6. Match the following parts of the sentence
- •Ex. 8. Translate the sentences into English.
- •21. Passive Voice.
- •22. Complex Subject
- •Ex. 1. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Ex. 2. Rewrite the following sentences using the complex subject.
- •Ex. 3. Translate the sentences into English.
- •23. Gerund.
- •25. Participle.
- •Participle I has four forms:
- •26. Complex Object.
- •27. Articles
- •28. Pronouns
- •Demonstrative pronouns
- •29. Some, any, no
- •30. Compound pronouns.
- •31. Much, Many, Little, Few, a Lot (of).
- •32. Adjectives and adverbs
- •33. Comparisons.
- •Irregular forms.
- •2. The same as
- •34. Other and another
- •Ex. 1. Fill in the blanks with other, another, the other.
- •Ex. 2. Insert other or others.
- •We write –‘after nouns in plural
- •We use the possessive (’s) structure when the first noun is the name of a person, group of people, animal, organization, country
- •E.G. Rules: club / football
- •36. So and Such.
- •37. Enough and Too.
- •Ex. 3. Use too orenough
- •Ex. 4. Translate the sentences into English.
- •38. Relative clauses – clauses with who / that / which
- •39. Prepositions.
- •For / during
- •In / at and to (places and directions)
- •40. Irregular Verbs
- •41. Word-Formation
- •42. Abbreviation List
6. Past Continuous
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I, HE, SHE, IT |
WE, YOU, THEY |
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Positive |
He wasreading. |
They werereading. |
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Negative |
He wasn’treading. |
They weren’treading. |
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Questions |
Washe reading? Yes, he was. No, hewasn’t. What washe reading? |
Werethey reading? Yes, they were. No, theyweren’t. What werethey reading? |
The past continuous tense is used to express an activity in progress around a point of time in the past.
The past continuous tense means that:
- at a time in the past we were in the middle of an action
E.g. She was playing the piano at 6 o’clock (from 5 to 7 o’clock) yesterday.
- a past action in progress was interrupted by another past action
E.g. When she arrived, we were having dinner.
- there were two or more simultaneous past actions
E.g. While I was reading, Tom was sleeping.
Ex. 1. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.
1. She was cooking.
2. They were playing tennis.
3. I was sleeping.
4. From September to November they were working in the USA.
5. It was raining yesterday in the morning.
6. She was wearing jeans at the party.
7. John was waiting for me when I arrived.
8. He was driving fast when the accident happened.
9. They were looking at me in surprise.
10. She was reading a book at six yesterday.
Ex. 2. Put the sentences into the past continuous tense.
She is writing a letter.
They are having dinner.
It is raining.
I am watching television.
The sun is shining.
The bus is coming.
Pat is listening to the radio.
They are playing the piano.
We are running.
I am speaking English.
Ex. 3. Answer the questions.
1. What were you doing at 3 o’clock yesterday?
2. What were the students doing when you came into the classroom?
3. What were you wearing yesterday?
4. Where was your friend going when you saw her?
5. What was the policeman doing when the accident happened?
6. Where were you living from September till November last year?
7. Who were you speaking to when the phone rang?
8. What were your parents doing when you came home?
9. What was he eating when he broke his tooth?
10. What was your brother reading when you entered the room?
Ex. 4. Put the words in the correct order.
1. painting/ while/ was/ the/ fell/ chair/ he/ off/ the/ he/ wall.
2. theatre/ the/ while/ saw/ near/ accident/ I/ was/ I/ an/ standing.
3. when/ dinner/ tongue/ was/ he/ he/ his/ bit/ having.
4. you/ yesterday/ at/ time/ doing/ were/ what/ this?
5. them/ met/ going/ were/ when/ you/ they/ where?
6. she/ party/ was/ the/ wearing/ what/ at?
7. waved/ him/ to/ was/ but/ not/ he/ I/ looking.
Ex. 5. Translate the following sentences into English.
1. Когда я видел его в последний раз, он пытался найти работу.
2. Он шел по улице, когда внезапно услышал чьи-то шаги сзади.
3. Ты вчера работал в 7 часов? – Нет, я был дома.
4. Телевизор работал, но никто не смотрел его.
5. Вчера с 3-х до 4-х он писал письмо.
6. Когда я уходил домой вчера, ко мне подошел менеджер.
7. Турист потерял фотоаппарат, когда гулял по городу.
8. Почему ты не слушал, когда учитель объяснял правило?
9. Что делал Ваш муж, пока вы убирали квартиру?
10. Пока я ходил в магазин, моя дочь готовила обед.