- •Tense system of the english verb Groups of Tenses in Active Voice Exercise 1
- •Present Forms
- •Exercise 2
- •Grammar Game
- •Past Forms
- •Used to – Would – Was going to
- •Future Forms
- •Indefinite Tenses Present Indefinite
- •What do they do at their jobs?
- •Abdul and Pablo
- •What do you do every morning?
- •Litter is a problem in our cities
- •Vocabulary
- •Past Indefinite
- •Important first
- •A summer Holiday
- •Your Holidays
- •Nick Lost His Money
- •What did Simon and Sally Do Yesterday?
- •Dinosaurs Lived Many Years ago
- •Vocabulary
- •Future Indefinite
- •Offering help
- •Asking for suggestion
- •Making suggestion
- •Other Grammatical Forms to Express Future Meaning
- •What are they going to do?
- •Future plans
- •What's going to happen?
- •Present Continuous (Future Meaning)
- •Present Indefinite (Future Meaning)
- •Present Indefinite after Time Words when, if, after, before, until , etc. (Future Meaning)
- •Bike Hike
- •Right or Wrong?
- •What will they need?
- •Amazing Records
- •Continuous Tenses Present Continuous
- •Present Continuous or Present Indefinite?
- •Detectives at Work
- •Continuous Forms with "Always"
- •Here is a list of some of Jack's bad habits:
- •Past Continuous
- •Saturday Afternoon
- •What were they doing?
- •What happened?
- •Steve Jobs
- •Past Continuous or Past Indefinite?
- •A Fright
- •The Sky Went Green
- •Vocabulary
- •News Flash
- •Truth or Fiction?
- •Flying cats!
- •Strange Stories
- •Play the Game
- •Future Continuous
- •Future Indefinite or Future Continuous?
- •When the Tornado Hits
- •Vocabulary
- •Time Words Used with Continuous Tenses
- •Verbs Not Used in Continuous Tenses
- •Perfect Tenses Present Perfect
- •I have never …
- •Time Words used with Perfect Tenses
- •Present Perfect or Past Indefinite?
- •I've been to New York.
- •I went there in 1990.
- •It's Difficult to Say Good-bye
- •Contrasting Completed Action and Duration
- •Past Perfect
- •What came First?
- •Susan George's cv
- •Past Perfect or Past Indefinite?
- •Past Perfect, Past Indefinite or Present Perfect?
- •Disastrous David
- •Nobody had believed it was possible
- •Vocabulary
- •Future Perfect
- •What will life be like in the year 2100?
- •Future Perfect or Future Continuous?
- •Pit Stop at the Race Track
- •Perfect Continuous Tenses Present Perfect Continuous
- •Present Perfect Continuous or Present Continuous?
- •Present Perfect Continuous or Present Perfect?
- •Present Perfect Continuous or Past Continuous?
- •Past Perfect Continuous
- •What had they been doing?
- •About You
- •Who's guilty?
- •Past Perfect Continuous or Past Perfect?
- •The film had almost finished
- •Junior Genius
- •Vocabulary
- •Facts about James
- •Because…
- •Another genius
- •Past Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Continuous?
- •Past Perfect Continuous or Present Perfect Continuous?
- •Future Perfect Continuous
- •Future Perfect Continuous or future Perfect?
- •Too Little, Too Late
- •Vocabulary
- •Interpreting Sentences
- •TheVerbTo be Present Indefinite Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Find the adjective in the first sentence. Then complete the second sentence
- •The list. Use each adjective only one time.
- •Is the Sears Tower in New York?
- •Past Indefinite
- •" My First Impressions were …"
- •Future indefinite
- •What will happen?
- •Ten Years from Now
- •Weather Outlook
- •Life in the Year 2100
- •Will I be rich?
- •"The Car of the Future"
- •Dialogue between an Optimist and a Pessimist
- •Functions of the Verb to be
- •Example:
- •The Verb to Have Present Indefinite Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •They have a grandfather.
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Past Indefinite Exercise 6 a Picnic on Sunday
- •Put in have, had or didn’t have. Yesterday
- •Exercise 9
- •Leader:eggs, jam, toast, tomato juice, cake, coffee
- •Future Indefinite Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Functions of the Verb to have Exercise 12
- •Example:
- •Have for Actions
- •Uses of have
- •Have got
- •I’ve got … / We’ve got…or I haven’t got … / We haven’t got….
- •I Complete the questions. Use have got or has got.
- •Exercise 19
- •Partner game
- •Exercise 21
- •Exercise 22
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- •Ask a group-mate a question with How many or How much. Here is a list of words that will help you to give the idea of number.
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13 Fill in the blanks withitorthereto suit the corresponding meanings of the sentences.
- •Exercise 14
- •Conversations Exercise 16
- •Exercise 17
- •I Read the dialogue in the box.
- •What’s in Your neighbourhood?
- •Exercise 18 Looking for an Apartment
- •Are there any problems in the apartment?
- •Exercise 19
- •The sequence of tenses Reporting in the Present Tense
- •Kidnapped!
- •Exercise 3 Sports at school
- •Reporting in the Past Tense
- •Exercise 5
- •Future in the past
- •Reporting in the past tense
- •Punctuation in Direct Speech
- •Different Sentence Types in Reported (Indirect) Speech Reported (Indirect) Statements
- •Exercise 15
- •Reported (Indirect) Orders and Requests Exercise 20
- •Milchester Fun Run Rules for runners
- •Reported (Indirect) Offers, Suggestion and Advice Exercise 24
- •Reported (Indirect) Exclamations Exercise 25
- •Exercise 26
- •Reported (Indirect) Questions
- •Reporting a Dialogue or a Conversation Exercise 30
- •The Passive Voice The Passive: Indefinite Tenses
- •British facts
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3 Language quiz
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Krakatoa
- •Exercise 8
- •Graffiti Competition
- •The Passive: Continuous Tenses
- •The old house
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •The Passive: Perfect Tenses
- •Exercise 16 What had been changed?
- •Exercise 17
- •Exercise 18
- •Exercise 19 The Olympic Games
- •The Passive with by and with Exercise 20
- •Exercise 21
- •The Passive with get Exercise 22
- •Ask break damage hurt pay steal sting stop use
- •Exercise 23
- •The Passive: Have / Get Something Done Exercise 24 Exercise 25
- •Exercise 26
- •Exercise 27
- •Exercise 28 Mr. And Mrs. Rich
- •Exercise 29
- •Exercise 30
- •Exercise 31
- •Exercise 32
- •The Passive: Modal Verbs and other Similar Expressions.
- •Exercise 35
- •Exercise 36
- •The Environment : What Can Be Done ?
- •Don’t Be Impatient !
- •The Passive: direct and indirect objects (Verbs with two objects in the Passive) Exercise 39
- •Exercise 42
- •How much is recycled ?
- •Computers then and now.
Important first
What made these people famous? Write true sentences, and change the form of the verb.
Example:
John Logie Baird gavethe first public demonstration of television in 1926.
1. John Logie Baird |
invent |
the first flight in 1903. |
2. The Wright brothers |
discover |
radium in 1902. |
3. Neil Armstrong |
make |
the first commercial sewing machine in 1851. |
4. Pierre and Marie Curie |
patent |
the first public demonstration of television in 1926. |
5. Gutenberg |
be |
the author of detective works. |
6. Isaac Singer |
land |
on the surface of the moon in 1969. |
7. Mozart |
discover |
America in 1492. |
8. Christopher Columbus |
write |
more than 600 pieces of music. |
9. Copernicus |
build |
the planets of the Solar system. |
10. Yuri Gagarin |
circle |
the British Isles in 55 BC. |
11. The Romans |
study |
the Eiffel Tower. |
12. Gustave Eiffel |
conquer |
the globe in 1961. |
13. Agatha Christie |
give |
the printing press in 1434. |
Exercise 54
Fill in the blanks with the Past Indefiniteof the correct verbs from the list.
put up |
make |
take |
drink |
speak |
feel |
cook |
go |
collect |
meet |
play |
sing |
Last weekend I 1 …went … camping with my friends. We2 …… tents and sleeping bags. Three of us3 …… the tents while the others4 …… wood and5 …… a fire. We6 …… potatoes and7 …… Coke. In the evening, Tom8 …… the guitar and everybody9 …… songs. We10 …… some French tourists and11 …… to them in French. At about midnight, we all12 …… sleepy, so we13…… to bed.
Exercise 55
Complete the sentences. Put the verb into the correct form, positive or negative.
Example:
It was warm, so I ……off my coat. (take)
It was warm, so I … took …off my coat.
The film wasn’t very good. I …… it very much. (enjoy)
The film wasn’t very good. I … didn’t enjoy …it very much.
I knew Sarah was very busy, so I …… her. (disturb)
I was very tired, so I …… to bed early. (go)
Sue wasn’t hungry, so she …… anything. (eat)
4. The bed was very uncomfortable, I ……very well. (sleep)
5. We went to Kate’s house but she …… at home. (be)
It was a funny situation but nobody …… . (laugh)
7. The window was open and a bird …… into the room. (fly)
8. The hotel wasn’t very expensive. It …… very much. (cost)
9. I was in a hurry, so I …… time to phone you. (have)
10. It was hard work carrying the bags. They …… very heavy. (be)
11. Paul and I played tennis yesterday. He’s much better than me, so he ……
easily. (win)
12. “How did you learn to drive?” “My father …… me.” (teach)
13. We couldn’t afford to keep our car, so we …… it. (sell)
14. I was very thirsty. I …… the water very quickly. (drink)
15. Ann …… a lot of money yesterday. (spend) She…… a dress which……
$100. (buy, cost)
Exercise 56
Bob had a lot of jobs to do last weekend. He didn’t have time to do all of them. Which ones did he do?
Example:
He washedthe car.
He didn’t buya new battery for the car.
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Weekend
wash car
buy new battery for car
repair broken window
book holiday
write to bank
phone sports club
pay electricity bill
tidy garage
paint gate
clean windows
Activity
Write down five things you did last weekend. (They needn’t just be jobs.) Compare your list with your partner’s. Say if you did the same things or not.
Exercise 57
Complete the sentences. Put the verb into correct positive or negative form. Use the past Indefinite.
I (go, not) didn’t goto a movie last night. I (stay)stayed at home.
I (finish, not) _____ my homework last night. I (go) _____ to bed early.
Tina and I (go, not) _____ shopping yesterday. We (go) _____ shopping last Monday.
I (write) _____ a letter to my girlfriend yesterday, but I (write, not) _____ a letter to her last week.
A strange thing (happen) _____ to me yesterday. I (can, not) _____ remember my telephone number.
My roommate (study, not) _____ Spanish last year.
Tom (put, not) _____ the butter in the refrigerator yesterday.
I (be, not) _____ tired when I (get) _____ home last night.
My husband (come, not) _____ home for dinner last night. He (have) _____ a business meeting.
10. Jane (ask) _____ David a question a few minutes ago, but he (answer,
not) _____ her question.
11. Toshi is a busy student. He (eat, not) _____ lunch yesterday because he
(be) short of time.
Exercise 58
Make questions. Give short answers.
1. |
A: B: |
Did you walk downtown yesterday? Yes, I did.(I walked downtown yesterday.) |
2. |
A: B: |
Did it rain last week? No, it didn’t.(It didn’t rain last week.) |
3. |
A: B: |
___________________________________________________ ___________________ (I ate lunch at the cafeteria.) |
4. |
A: B: |
___________________________________________________ ___________________ (Mr. Kwan didn’t go out of town last week.) |
5. |
A: B: |
___________________________________________________ ___________________ (I had a cup of tea for lunch.) |
6. |
A: B: |
___________________________________________________ ___________________ (Benito and I went to a party last night.) |
7. |
A: B: |
___________________________________________________ ___________________ (Olga studied Chinese in high school.) |
8. |
A: B: |
___________________________________________________ ___________________ (I saw Gina at dinner last night.) |
9. |
A: B: |
______________________________________________________________________ (I didn’t dream in English last night.) |
10. |
A: B: |
___________________________________________________ ___________________ (Nick lost his money.) |
Exercise 59
Complete the sentences with was, were, or did.
1. |
I did not go to work yesterday. Iwassick, so I stayed home from office. | |
2. |
Tom _____ not in his office yesterday. He _____ not go to work. | |
3. |
A: B: A: B: |
_____ Mr. Chan in his office yesterday? yes. _____ you see him about your problem? Yes. He answered all my questions. He _____ very helpful. |
4. |
A: B: A: B:A: B: A: B: |
_____ you at the meeting yesterday? What meeting? _____ you forget about the meeting? I guess so. What meeting? The meeting with the president of the company about employee benefits. Oh. Now I remember. No, I _____ not there. _____ you? Yes. I can tell you about it. Thanks. |
5. |
A: B:A: B: |
Where _____ you yesterday? I _____ at the zoo. _____ you enjoy it? Yes, but the weather _____ very hot. I tried to stay out of the sun. Most of the animals _____ in their houses or in the shade. The sun _____ too hot for them, too. They _____ not want to be outside in the hot sun. |
Exercise 60
Make questions. Use where, when, what time, what, who, whom or why.
1. |
A: B: |
Where did you go yesterday? To the zoo. (I went to the zoo yesterday.) |
2. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Last month. (Jason arrived in Canada last month.) |
3. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ At 7:05. (My plane arrived at 7:05.) |
4. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Because I was tired. (I stayed home last night because I was tired.) |
5. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ At he library. (I studied at the library last night.) |
6. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Because it’s dark in here. (I turned on the light because it’s dark in here.) |
7. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ To Greece. (Sara went to greece for her vacations.) |
8. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Around midnight. (I finished my homework around midnight.) |
9. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Five weeks ago. (I came to this city five weeks ago.) |
10. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Because Tony made a funny face. (I laughed because Tony made a funny face.) |
11. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Upstairs. (Kate was upstairs.) |
12. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ At Emerhoff’s Shoe Store. (I got my sandals at Emerhoff’s Shoe Store.) |
13. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ In the dormitory. (Ben lived in the dormitory.) |
14. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ A new tape recorder. (I bought a new tape recorder.) |
15. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Mary. (Mary came to the party.) |
16. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ Yes, he did. (John talked about his country.) |
17. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________Mary. (I saw Mary at the party.) |
18. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ A hamburger. (Jim ate a hamburger for lunch.) |
19. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________Because he wanted big muscles. (Bobby lifted weights because he wanted big muscles.) |
20. |
A: B: |
____________________________________________________ The teacher. (The teacher talked about grammar.) |
Exercise 61