The Group of Simple Tenses.

	Present Simple Tense	Past Simple Tense	Future Simple Tense
+	I write letters every day. He/ she writes letters every day.	I wrote letters yesterday	I will write letters tomorrow.
_	I don’t write letters every day. He/she doesn’t write letters every day.	I didn’t write letters yesterday.	I won’t write letters tomorrow.
?	Do I write letters every day? Does he/she write letters every day?	Did I write letters yesterday?	Will I write letters tomorrow?

1. Put in the missing words:

1. I come for my lessons every day. 2. He … for … lesson every day. 3. She … for … lesson every day. 4. We … for … lesson every day. 5. You … for … lesson every day. 6. They … for …lesson every day.

2. Make the following interrogative:

1. He teaches English to his students. 2. He knows French and German. 3. Mr. Priestley speaks three languages well. 4. The students come to this room. 5. The boys and girls stay with their father at the seaside. 6. This boy plays football. 7. English people stay at this hotel. 8. The boy swims to the big rock every day. 9. The woman eats ices. 10. The men drink yea and coffee.

3. Put these sentences into negative and interrogative forms:

1. Her sister lives in Moscow. 2. My friend learns English. 3. Our teacher speaks French. 4. This engineer works at our office. 5. His wife goes to the office in the morning. 6. Her friend does English exercises at home. 7. His name is Pavlov. 8. They are students now.

4. Make up questions to italicized words.

1. Our teacher always speaks English in class.(3)

2. We sometimes have English in the evening.(1)

3. My friends work at the Ministry of Foreign Trade.(3)

4. We often have dictations in class. (2)

5. They do a lot of exercises at home. (2)

6. We have our English twice a week. (2)

5. Translate, pay attention to the verb “ to be”

1. She is to solve a very difficult problem. 2. I don’t know what I am to do. 3. She is to have an interview today. She is excited. 4. What time are they to have talks? 5. What are we to do? We don’t have any money. 6. She was to take a serious step. 7. We were to have met at seven, but he did not come for some reason. 8. МI was to leave home for the first time. 9. I was to have begun work last week but then I changed my mind. 10. We are to organize a meeting.

6. Give the interrogative and negative forms of the following sentences.

1. He has a lot of exercises. 2. She has a bath every day. 3. She has got a lot of jewelry. 4. They have got a lot of rare plants in their garden. 5. She usually has a rest after dinner. 6. They had late supper tonight. 7. We have got a lot of problems now. 8. They had a pleasant voyage last summer. 9. Her mother has a flat in the High Street. 10. The president has a bad cold.

7. Change the following sentences into question tags.

1. She’ll have stayed at home these days. 2. He often has to go to the dentist. 3. We have to begin the experiment at five o’clock. 4. They had to lay the fire. 5. You look a bit tired; you’ve had a long walk.6. She has to go there for a fortnight. 7. He had to finish work by Thursday. 8. They never have dinner at home. 9. They had a new car.

8. Complete the text, using the Past Simple form of the verbs in box:

look, work , love, learn, earn, marry, die, hate, want.

Mattie Smith.

“ I … from 6.00 in the morning until 10.00 at night. Sixteen hours in the cotton fields and I only …$ 2 a day. I sure … that job but I … the poems in my head. I really … to learn to read and write. When I was sixteen I … Hubert, and soon there were six children, five sons, then a doughter, Lily. Hubert … just before she was born. That was sixty-five years ago. So I … after my family alone. There was no time for learning, but my children, they all … to read and write – that was important to me. And when I learn to read and write? I didn’t learn until I was 86, and now I have three boors of poems.”