- •Present Continuous
- •State verbs
- •Past Continuous
- •Future Continuous
- •Present Perfect
- •Past Perfect
- •Future Perfect
- •Present Perfect Continuous
- •Past Perfect Continuous
- •Future Perfect Continuous
- •Grammar exercises
- •3. Complete the text with one of the verbs from the list: contain, exist, find(x2), allow, dig, produce, try, be, unearth, perish, discover(x2), walk. Use the correct past or present tenses.
- •4. Read this biography from a movie magazine. Complete the text with the verbs in brackets in the past simple or present perfect (simple or continuous).
- •5. Fill in the gaps with a correct future form of the verbs in brackets.
- •7. Fill in the gaps with a verb from the list: be, buy, decide, develop, discuss, feel, like, make, phone, run, start, stay, take, visit, wait, work. Use the correct past tense.
- •8. Two students are discussing their plans for the weekend. Fill in the gaps using the most natural form of the future and the verb in brackets.
- •10. Look at the underlined verb tenses in this phone conversation between a mother and her daughter. Correct any errors.
- •Vocabulary for unit 1
- •Grammar reference unit 2 The indefinite article ’a’/’An’ – One/Ones
- •A(n)/One
- •One/Ones
- •The definite article
- •Modal verbs: present, past and future
- •Grammar exercises
- •2. Fill in the blanks with articles with names of continents, countries, states, provinces, cities and some other cases.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with articles before names of peninsulas, deserts, mountains, islands, falls, passes and some other cases if necessary.
- •5. Fill in the blanks with articles before geographic names and some other cases if necessary.
- •7. Underline the correct words. Sometimes both options are possible.
- •8. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of (not) have to, must, (not) need or should and the corresponding verb: tell, go(x2), pay (x2), pass, turn, buy (x2), forget, wear (x4)
- •10. Put one suitable word in each space.
- •11. Change each sentence so that the meaning stays the same.
- •12. Change each sentence so that it contains the word in capital, and so that the meaning stays the same.
- •Vocabulary for unit 2
- •Grammar reference unit 3 Modal perfect
- •Grammar exercises
- •3. Change each sentence so that it contains the words in capitals, and so that the meaning stays the same.
- •6. For each of the sentences below make a new sentence as similar in meaning as possible to the original sentence, but using the word(s) given. The word(s) must not be altered in any way.
- •7. Replace the underlined phrases with a suitable past modal phrase.
- •9. Match each of these items with the phrase or sentence more likely to follow it.
- •10. Give a negative response for b using need in an appropriate form and the verb in brackets.
- •Vocabulary for unit 3
Grammar exercises
1. Fill in the blanks with articles.
1. He went into… house by… back door and sneaked up… stairs as though he had something to hide. 2. We’ll never get him… second time. 3. … silent house gave him a feeling of being there without leave. 4. ’’Oh,’’he said, ’’you’d have to go back through all… records, all… way back to… end of …18-th century even, to make any kind of… guess.’’5. ’’What do you mean?’’ But what he meant was quite obvious. …quickly beating heart gave him away. 6. It was… third time that year he had fallen asleep driving at night. 7. He was glad that he had been born in… most important city of…United States. 8. …light in… next room came from…lamp hanging from… ceiling. 9. But one way or… other it’s not bothering me. 10. Before… first year had passed I had saved… thousand dollars and we had lived in comfort. 11. Now in… shade of this cool green bush he looked about him with… fancy of… lover. 12. … police are still on it, and they won’t let up, you know. 13. Beyond… lighted decks…harbour was… sheet of… sparkling silver under… full moon. 14. She was never at… loss with…new topic and could be trusted immediately to break… awkward silence with… suitable observation. 15. She taught her to wear… flannel all… year round. 16. I’m sorry for you because you’re such… child, dear,…child crying for… moon. 17. ’’Buryats are… expert riders and remarkably accurate archers,’’´wrote Rainier of Switzerland who worked as… teacher in Siberia in… last century. 18. Probably nine tenth of all… people of…United States are disposed to doubt when they hear it asserted that… future can be predicted. 19. James and Andrew listened to his story patiently but they gave him… little encouragement.20. With… deep hunger of… Irishman who has been… tenant on… lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.
2. Fill in the blanks with articles with names of continents, countries, states, provinces, cities and some other cases.
1. In his youth Mr.Curry had been abroad… great deal, had lived in… Ceylon, Singapore and… India. 2. It was not… Monte Carlo I had known, or perhaps… truth was that it pleased one better. 3. …Chimney Corner was… name of… bar. Michael had liked hanging around there. … photographs of famous skiers of… past hanging above… great fireplace now looked like mementos of… much earlier America. 4. He made… England too hot to hold him; fled to… Central America, and died there of yellow fever. 5. …wealth of Mary’s husband flowed from his being ruler-owner of manganese deposits in… southwestern Asia. 6. I hear he’s off to… Central Africa. 7. He decided to take his profit and buy… house on… Riviera. 8. Next morning, back from shopping in … Cannes, Nicole found… note saying that Dick had taken… small car and gone up into… Provence for…few days by himself. 9. Your advice, then, as I understand it, is that…young man will be as safe in… Devonshire as in… London. 10. That evening he glanced at… tape for any news about… Transvaal. 11. My great-grand-father was Governor of… North Carolina. 12. Several show cases are devoted to… reunification of… Ukraine with Russia. 13. We drove up from… Valencia. 14. Here are some of his belongings such as…sword given him in… Caucasus and many historical documents. 15. One of…most striking of…many unique exhibits is… marble sarcophagus - … relic of ancient art found in excavations on… Taman Peninsula in… Crimea.
3. Fill in the blanks with articles before names of oceans, seas, straits, channels, rivers, lakes, bays and some other cases if necessary.
1. How ill she was when there was… storm in… Indian Ocean. 2. I was promoted to be… major and every Allied government gave me… decoration – even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on… Adriatic Sea! 3. Every ferryboat that crosses… East River brings or takes away girls from Long Island. 4. New York,…largest city in… USA, is situated at… mouth of… Hudson river, sometimes called… North river. 5. He had grown up at… shores of… Lake Superior and had sailed small boats ever since he was… kid. 6. They sent us… postcard of… Lake of Geneva. 7. His large grey eyes were sun-veined from rowing on… Lake Geneva. 8. We travelled… lot that year – from… Woolloomooloo Bay to Biskra. 9. They were in… Mediterranean passing… Gibraltar, but…weather, if anything, was worse. 10. …Potomac flows from West Virginia into… Chesapeake Bay. 11. Warm air began to move from… Gulf of Mexico across Texas into New Mexico. 12. Isabel had caused…house,… replica of…palace on… Grand Canal at Venice, to be furnished by… English expert in… style of Louis XV. 13. He said he was… Dane, but in… Torres Straits he was known as German Harry. 14. Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on… San Francisco Bay. 15. Wisconsin was on… Wisconsin River, on… north bank,… matter of seven miles above… junction with… Mississippi.