- •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
4. Fill in the blanks with articles before names of peninsulas, deserts, mountains, islands, falls, passes and some other cases if necessary.
1. She’s lived on… Long Island twenty years and never saw New York City before. 2. He told stories to beautiful girls about his fighting in… Solomon Islands, in Casablanca. 3. …Rocky Mountains extend from Mexico to Canada. 4. We were going to climb… Monte Solaro, dine at… tavern we favoured, and walk down in… moonlight. 5. He took her for… ride on… river under… Niagara Falls and held her hand lovingly when they walked in… sunlight of… Northern summer. 6. We could very well have done… Mount Everest… rate we were doing. 7. On… edge of… Sahara we ran into… plague of locusts and… chauffeur explained kindly that they were bumble-bees. 8. In December Nicole seemed well-knit again; when… month had passed without tension, without… tight mouth,… unmotivated smile,… unfathomable remark, they went to… Swiss Alps for… Christmas holidays.
9. Symbolically she lay across his saddle-bow as surely as if he had wolfed her away from Damascus and they had come out upon… Mongolian plain. 10. Here was another item detailing… wrecking of… vessel in ice and snow off Prince’s Bay on… Staten Island. 11. He had… small house in… Bermudas. 12. …shell was found overturned, … next day, near… Bear Mountain. 13. …photographer gave us… picture of me, my hair limp over… rail on… boat to… Capri. 14. No one should leave… park without visiting… outlook station on… rim of… Great Canyon for… view of… Lower Falls of… Yellowstone River. 15. … Kilimanjaro is… snow covered mountain 19,700 feet high and is said to be… highest mountain in Africa.
5. Fill in the blanks with articles before geographic names and some other cases if necessary.
1. …Manhattan is…name of… island which forms… heart of New York. 2. … Switzerland was… island washed on one side by… waves of thunder around… Gorizia and another by… cataracts along… Somme and…Aisne. 3. Do you know what it’s like when there’s sixty degrees of frost in… Arctic – and it still doesn’t freeze? 4. In 1919 I happened to be in… Chicago on my way to… Far East. 5. ’’She came from… Bavaria,’’ she said. 6. On…pleasant shore of… French Riviera, about half way between…Marseilles and… Italian border, stands…large, proud, rose-colored hotel. 7. I thought if… test turned out to be good I could take it to… California with me. 8. I had, indeed, … mind to see… city of Peking, which I had heard so much of. 9. After all it was… completest thing, and perhaps… deadest in…London of today. 10. He had agencies in many of… island of… Pacific. 11. Descending to another ledge she reached… low curved wall and looked down seven hundred feet to… Mediterranean sea. 12. He came to… Seine, crossed it, and entered one of… less reputable quartes of… Paris. 13. … Bancrofts are at present living at their summer home on… Lake Metilico. 14. … region around… Great Lakes doesn’t have… excessive humidity. 15. It may be in… Coney Island or… Pelham Bay, but I’ll find… room.
6. Fill in the blanks with articles before miscellaneous proper names and other cases if necessary.
1. When they put out from port in… hired launch it was already summer dusk and lights were breaking out in spasms along rigging …of Levante. 2. Well, tomorrow then. I’m living at… Chelsea now. 3. On… other bank of… Potomac lies… Arlington National Cemetery, where… President Kennedy was buried. 4. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of… long couch and she read aloud to him from… Saturday Evening Post. 5. Sensation at… London airport. Attempt to smuggle 12 jewels worth three quarters of… million. 6. His own ideas of… riotous holiday meant picnicking on… grass of… Green Park with his family and half… dozen paper bags full of food. 7. After that, if… night was mellow, I strolled down… Madison Avenue past… old Murray Hotel, and over… 33d Street to… Pennsylvania Station. 8. Why, yes, didn’t you know that? Why, he’s manager of… Grand Opera House. 9. Then still keeping… hundred years behind, we followed into… Oxford Street and down… Regent Street. 10. It was close on midnight when… man crossed… Place de la Concorde. 11. I graduated from… New Haven in 1915, just… quarter of… century after my father. 12. I meant it might be nice for you to take… house in… London for… spring season – I know… dove of… house in… Talbot Square you could get, furnished. 13. … Jefferson Memorial was built in memory of… third President of… USA, Thomas Jefferson, who was also… author of… Declaration of Independence. 14. …White House is… President’s residence. 15. At half past six on… Friday evening in January, … Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty.