- •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.
Other Grammatical Forms to Express Future Meaning
to be going to + Infinitive
to be about to + Infinitive
to be on the point of + Ving (Gerund)
Exercise 75
Be going to + Infinitiveis used to express a future intention or plan; a prediction when there is evidence that something is going to happen in the future; things we are sure about or we have already decided to do in the near future.
What are they going to do?
Match sentences from the two columns. Then write new sentences with be going to.
1. Mr. Bell is hot. |
go to bed early |
2. Chip's thirsty. |
watch television |
3. Jenny's tired. |
have a drink |
4. Mrs. Bell's ill. |
ask his mother |
5. Nick's bored. |
look for him in the garden |
6. Chip and Trig are hungry. |
have a cold shower |
7. Mr. Todd's cold. |
put on the light |
8. Amanda and Mrs. Todd are wet. |
turn down the radio |
9. Tom can't do his homework. |
miss the next football match |
10. It's dark. Tom can't see. |
get some food from the fridge |
11. It's loud. Mrs. Todd can't hear. |
have a hot bath |
12. Tom's got a broken leg. |
see his dentist |
13. Jenny can't find Chip. |
dry their clothes |
14. Mr. Bell can't start the car. |
take some tablets |
15. Nick's got a toothache. |
telephone the garage |
1. He's going to have a cold shower.
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________
5. ________________________________ etc.
Exercise 76
Future plans
These pupils already have plans for their future jobs. Match what they like or can do with what they are going to do. Then write new sentences with be going to.
1. Barbara likes animals. |
become a pilot |
2. Mark is good at Maths. |
become a kindergarten teacher |
3. Pam likes cooking. |
work in a bank |
4. Sam loves aeroplanes. |
become a vet |
5. Jane loves small children. |
become a train driver |
6. Scott loves trains. |
study art |
7. Sarah is good at painting. |
study medicine |
8. Pat wants to be a doctor. |
buy a restaurant |
9. Ann loves computers. |
become an author |
10. Paul likes writing stories. |
become a sports teacher |
11. Bill loves sports. |
study computer science |
1. Barbara's going to become a vet.
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________
5. ________________________________ etc.
Exercise 77
What's going to happen?
Look at the picture. Write what's going to happen or what the people are going todo.
She’s going to answer the phone.
Exercise 79
Complete the sentences using will ('ll) or going to.
1. |
A: B: |
Why are you turning on the television? I'm going to watch the news. (I / watch) |
2. |
A: B: |
Oh, I've just realized. I haven't got any money. Haven't you? Well, don't worry. __________ you some. (I / lend) |
3. |
A: B: |
I've got a headache. Have you? Wait there and __________ an aspirin for you. (I / get) |
4. |
A: B: |
Why are you filling that bucket with water? __________ the car. (I / wash) |
5. |
A: B: |
I've decided to repaint this room. Have you? What colour __________ it? (you / paint ) |
6. |
A: B: |
Where are you going? Are you going shopping? Yes, __________ something for dinner. (I / buy) |
7. |
A: B: |
I don't know how to use this camera. It's quite easy. __________ you. (I / show) |
8. |
A: B: |
What would you like to eat? __________ a sandwich, please. (I/ have) |
9. |
A: B: |
Did you post that letter for me? Oh, I'm sorry. I completely forgot. __________ it now. (I / do) |
10. |
A: B: |
The ceiling in this room doesn't look very safe, does it? No, it looks as if _________ down. (it / fall) |
11. |
A: B: |
Has George decided what to do when he leaves school? Oh, yes. Everything is planned. __________ a holiday for a few weeks and the __________ a computer programming course. (he / have, he / do) |
Exercise 80
Read the situations and complete the sentences using will ('ll)orgoing to.
The phone rings and you answer. Somebody wants to speak to Jim.
Caller:Hello. Can I speak to Jim, please?
You:Just a moment. __________ him. (I / get)
It's a nice day. You've decided to sit in the garden. Before going outside,
you tell your friend.
You:The weather's too nice to stay indoors. __________in the
garden. (I / sit)
Friend:That's a good idea. I think __________you. (I / join)
Your friend is worried because she has lost an important letter.
You:Don't worry about the letter. I'm sure __________ it. (you / find)
Friend:I hope so.
There was a job advertised in the paper recently. At first you were
interested but then you decided not to apply.
Friend:Have you decided what to do about that job that was advertised?
You:Yes, __________ for it. (I / not / apply)
You and a friend come home very late. Other people in the house are
asleep. Your friend is noisy.
You:Shhh! Don't make so much noise. __________ everybody up.
(you / wake)
John has to go to the airport to catch a plane tomorrow morning.
John:Ann, I need somebody to take me to the airport tomorrow
morning.
Ann:That's no problem. __________ you. (I / take) What time is your
flight?
John:10.50
Ann:OK. __________ at about 9 o'clock then. (we / leave)
Later that day, Joe offers to take John to the airport.
Joe:John, do you want me to take you to the airport?
John:No, thanks, Joe. __________ me. (Ann / take)