- •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.
Future Continuous
Exercise 126
Identify the speech situations then match the sentences with the correct meaning of the tense used in each of them.
1. He’ll be sunbathing in Hawaii this time next week.
10. Mr. Briggs is 65, so he will be retiring at the end of the year. |
future time
routine (instead of Present Continuous) c.talking about arrangements
d. making polite enquiries ( about plans, etc.)
e. events happening as a matter of course (to describe situations which will arise in the future if things go on as predicted and follow their expected pattern)
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1. ….. a ….. |
3. …………. |
5. …………. |
7. …………. |
9. …………. |
2. …………. |
4. …………. |
6. …………. |
8. …………. |
10. ……….. |
Exercise 127
Lynne Carter is going from London to Manchester on business tomorrow. Look at Lynne's plans. What will Lynne be doing at these times tomorrow?
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8.00 - 8.30 Fly to Manchester
10.00 - 12.00 Visit the ABC travel company
13.00 - 14.30 Have lunch with Mary and Ron King
15.00 - 16.00 Visit Derek Hall
16.15 - 16.45 Take a taxi to the airport
17.15 - 18.05 Fly back to London
Example:
8.30
At 8.30 tomorrow Lynne will be flying to Manchester.
1.11.00 |
2.13.30 |
3.15.30 |
4.16.30 |
5.17.30 |
Exercise 128
Complete the sentences in A using the will be + ing form. Find a question inBto go with each sentence.
A |
B |
1. I _____ (go) past post office. |
Would you like to borrow it? |
2. _____ (you / speak) to Robert? |
Shall we get one for you? |
3. I _____ (not / use) my car tonight. |
Can you give her something? |
4. We _____ (get) some concert tickets. |
Shall I post your letter? |
5. When _____ (you / visit) Sue again? |
Shall I give your best regards to them? |
6. _____ (you / drive) into town today? |
Can you give him a message? |
7. _____ (the Board of Directors / discuss) the company strategy next Wednesday. |
Would you like to have a drink? |
8. _____ (I / shake) cocktails for the rest of the guests. |
Do you mind if I leave early? |
9. (The Accounting department employees / work overtime) this weekend. |
Could the top managers join them in decision - making? |
10. _____ (I / phone) our business partners in Spain the day after tomorrow. |
Could I have a lift? |
Exercise 129
Put the verb into the correct form, using will be (do)ing.
Example:
Don't phone me between 7 and 8. _____ (we / have) dinner then.
Don't phone me between 7 and 8. We will be havingdinner then.
Tomorrow afternoon we are going to play tennis from 3 o'clock until 4.30,
so at 4 o'clock, _____ (we / play) tennis.
Do you think _____ (you / still / do) the same job in ten year's time?
If you need to contact me, _____ (I / stay) at the Lion Hotel until Friday.
A: _____ (you / see) Laura tomorrow?
B: Yes, probably. Why?
A: I borrowed this book from her. Can you give it back to her?
What _____ (you / do) at 8 o'clock tomorrow night?
_____ (my friend / meet) me when I arrive at the airport.
Don't get impatient. _____ (she / come) soon.
Right now I'm sitting in class. At this time tomorrow _____ (I / sit) in class too.
I will begin to study at seven. You will come at 8. _____ (I / study) when you come.
10. Look at those dark clouds. When class is over, _____ (it / rain, probably).
11. _____(they / discuss) examination schedule at 3 p.m. at the next meeting.
Exercise 130
Use the Future Continuous or the Present Indefinite.
Right now I am attending class. Yesterday at this time, I was attending
class. Tomorrow at this time, I (attend) ______ class.
Tomorrow I'm going to leave for home. When I (arrive) _____ at the airport, my whole family (wait) _____ for me.
When I (get) _____ up tomorrow morning, the sun (shine) _____, the
birds (sing) _____, and my roommates (lie, still) _____ in bed fast
asleep.
A: When do you leave for Florida?
B: Tomorrow. Just think. Two days from now I (lie) _____ on the beach
in the sun.
A: Sounds great! I (think) _____ about you.
5. A: How can I get in touch with you while you're out of town?
B: I (stay) _____ at the Pilgrim Hotel. You can reach me there.
6. Next year at this time, I (do) _____ exactly what I am doing now. I
(attend) _____ school and (study) _____ hard next year.
7. Look at those dark clouds. When class (be) _____ over, it
(snow, probably) _____.
8. A: Are you going to be in town next Saturday?
B: No. I (visit) _____ my aunt in Chicago.
Exercise 131
Correct the mistakes in the following sentences. Mind the use of the Future Continuous.
This time tomorrow I be lying on a beach in Sochi.
Professor Ivanov will be not giving another lecture on Russian history at the same time next week.
Shall you be having dinner at home this evening?
It will be rained in a minute.
The children will playing in the yard after school.
When my parents will are watching Tvin the evening I will be doing my homework for the next lesson.
They will be running into the storm cellar while the tornado will be moving towards them.
8. Phone me tomorrow evening at 10 o'clock. I will not be doing nothing then.
9. I will be studying when she come.
10. We shall be having breakfast in half an hour.
11. Will be you doing yours lessons after dinner?
12. Don't get impatient! She be coming soon.
13. When Tony arrives, we sleeping.