- •Past tenses
- •1.Complete the sentence with the past simple form of the verb in brackets.
- •2. Complete the sentence with the past simple form of the verb in brackets. Then decide if each sentence is True or False. Check the factual answers after the exercise.
- •3. Seven of the sentences (including the example) contain historical errors. Guess which ones are wrong and rewrite them with a negative past simple form.
- •4. Complete the question for each answer.
- •5.Complete the text with the past simple affirmative, negative or question forms of the verbs in brackets. Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
- •6. Complete the sentences with the correct auxiliary (was/wasn’t or were/weren’t)
- •8. Rewrite eaсh sentenсe aссording to the instruсtions given.
- •9. Complеte еaсh sеntenсе with a suitable timе expression from the box. You сan
- •10. Put еaсh vеrb in braсkets into either the past simple or past сontinuous.
- •11. Complete the sentence with the past simple or past continuous form of the verb in brackets. Alexander the Great
- •12. Translate the sentences.
- •2. Complete the sentence with the past simple or past perfect simple form of the verb in brackets.
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- •6. Read the sentences about two mountain climbers. Then complete the sentence with the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous form of the verb in brackets.
- •2. What did you use to do/didn’t use to do during your summer holidays when you were a child? Make up sentences, as in the example. You can use your own ideas.
- •3. A) Rewrite each person’s comment using used to or didn’t used to, as in the example.
- •4. Complete the sentences with use to or used to and a verb below:
- •5. Replace the Past Simple with used too in the sentences, where possible.
- •2. Undеrlinе the сorrесt word or phrase in еaсh sentеnсe.
- •3.For еaсh question, сomplete the seсond sеntenсe so that it means the samе as the first, using no more than thrее words.
- •4. Underline the correct form.
- •5.Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect simple form of the verbs in brackets.
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When I got home, Mara wasn’t in the living room, but the TV was on.
………….She had been watching TV………………
The lights were off, and none of her schoolbooks were around.
She………………………………………………….homework.
“The Tonight Show” was on. The audience was laughing.
Jay Leno………………………………………….jokes.
The window was open, and the floor was a little wet.
It………………………………………………………….
There was half a sandwich on the coffee table.
Mara………………………………..the sandwich.
There was an unopened bottle of soda next of the sandwich.
She…………………………………… the soda.
Mara entered the room. There were tears on her face.
At first I thought she……………………………..
I was wrong. Mara wasn’t upset.
She…………………….. hard at Leno’s jokes.
There was a stack of clean plates in the kitchen sink.
She ………………………………….. dishes.
Mara could hear the TV from the kitchen.
She…………………………… to Leno’s jokes from the kitchen.
The show was almost over. Leno was thanking one of the guests.
He ……………………………………….comedian Margaret Cho.
I was surprised that the show was almost over.
I ……………………………………attention to the time.
6. Read the sentences about two mountain climbers. Then complete the sentence with the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous form of the verb in brackets.
1) The two climbers stopped to rest. They (climb) …..had been climbing…. for hours and were exhausted. Things were not looking good.
2) They were very cold, because it (snow)……………………heavily since mid-morning, and one of them (hurt)…………………...his ankle.
3) They (look) ………………….for shelter for the past two hours, because they realized that the weather was going to get worse.
4) They (already phone)………………….. the rescue centre for help.
5) They (also leave)…………………………. details of their planned route at the village where they stayed the night.
6) They were experienced climbers and they (prepare)………………… carefully for
their trip. They knew there was a cave halfway up the mountain.
7) They spent a long time searching for the cave before they realized that they (head)………………. in the wrong direction. Then the snow stopped, and they could see the dark entrance of the cave nearby.
8) Luckily they (bring) …………….warm clothes and plenty of food with them,
and they waited safely in the cave.
Translate the sentences.
1. Так как Эндрю пропустил целую неделю занятий, то он попросил Боба помочь ему. 2 Я понял, что оставил свой портфельна работе, только когда подошел к двери дома. 3. Вчера к восьми вечера Мэри все приготовила. 4. Бабушка вязала свитер уже 2 года, когда поняла, что он будет маленьким для ее внука. 5. Они пришли в кинотеатр задолго до того, как начался фильм. 6. Дождь шел уже целую неделю, когда приехала моя сестра. 7. Выступающий говорил уже полтора часа, когда понял, что никто его не слушает. 8. Я спала уже 2 часа, когда в дверь кто-то постучал. 9. Перед тем как приехать в Пекин, Сью изучала китайский язык и китайскую культуру. 10. Кто-то звонил в дверь уже десять минут, когда Майкл наконец открыл. 11. Когда Мери прибежала домой, то она увидела, что Кери уже вернулась. 12. До того как я купил машину, мои друзья всегда встречали моих гостей. 13. Хотя он уже 2 года работал в этой компании, он еще не знал своих коллег. 14. Они путешествовали по Канаде уже вторую неделю и уже посетили много городов. 15. Когда я шел в магазин, я встретил приятельницу моего брата, которую не видел уже пять лет.
USED TO
1. Complete the sentence with used to + the verb in brackets in positive, negative or question form.
1) What things (be) …..used to be…. different in the past?
2) For a start, all the continents (form) ………… . one large land mass.
3) Obviously, there (be) …………… cities and buildings, and forest covered a third of the Earth.
4) The climate was different, and animals such as the hippopotamus and rhinoceros (exist) ………………..in northern Europe.
5) Many mountains in Europe (be) …………………..active volcanoes.
6) Early people (live) …………..in complex societies, but in small groups in places
where they could find food.
7) What (eat) .. ………………. ? They (eat)……………. whatever they could find.
8) Early people (stay) .. ................... in the same place, but (travel)…………….. long
distances, following the animals they needed for food.
9)Jaсk (havе).. .............a bеard but hе shavеd it off.
10) My mothеr (rеad) ............... to mе еvеry night.
11) In thе holidays wе (mееt) .......................... at thе bеaсh еvеry morning.
12) I (not likе) .................... spinaсh, but now I do.
13) Неlеn (writе) ………………….... to mе oftеn, but now shе phonеs.
14) Tina (livе) ................................ in thе housе oppositе.
15) Whеn I was young, thе summеrs (bе) …………..... warmеr.
16) Whеnеvег our tеaсhеr lеt us lеavе еarly, wе (сhееr) ……………………..!