- •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.
Present Perfect or Past Indefinite?
Exercise 155
Sort these words into two categories. Used with the Present Perfect and Used with the Past Indefinite.
Used with the Present Perfect |
Used with the Past Indefinite |
_____________________________ _____________________________
|
_____________________________ _____________________________ |
ago, since, yesterday, recently, during the 1990s, last year, at 3 o'clock, ever, so far, over the last two years, never, already, yet, just, for the past three weeks, lately |
Exercise 156
Choose the correct adverb.
I've yet / already / so far spoken to Peter about it.
We've made a lot of progress over the past three years / since three years/ during three years.
We set up two years ago / during the 1970s / over the last two years.
Have you ever / two months ago / yet visited Beijing.
We've grown rapidly over the last few years / five years ago / just now.
They updated their website a month ago / a month before, for one month.
She's been vice-president for 10 years / last year / not yet.
I did a lot of work yesterday / already / this week.
Who is that woman? I've ever / never / since seen her before.
10. The house is dirty. They haven't cleaned it for weeks / last week / already.
11. Paul was in Egypt recently / lately / not yet / in 1998 / since his childhood.
Exercise 157
Use the Present Perfect or the Past Indefinite.
What (learn, you) __________ since you (come) __________ here? How many new friends (make, you) __________ ? I hope you (meet, already) __________ a lot of interesting people.
Since classes began, I (have, not) _________ much free time. I (have)
__________ several big tests to study for.
Last night my roommate and I (have) __________ some free time, so we (go) __________ to a show.
4. I admit that I (get) __________ older since I last (see) __________ you,
but with any luck at all, I (get, also) __________ wiser.
5.The science of medicine (advance) __________ a great deal in the
nineteenth century.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, medical scientists (make) __________ many important discoveries.
Libraries today are different from those in the 1800s. For example, contents of libraries (change) __________ greatly through the years. In the 1800s, libraries (be) __________ simply collections of books. However, today most libraries (become) __________ multimedia centers that contain tapes, computers, disks, films, magazines, music and paintings. The role of the library in society (change, also) __________. In the 1800s, libraries (be) __________ open only to certain people, such as scholars or the wealthy. Today libraries serve everyone.
I (not, have) __________ my homework yet.
We (not, see) __________ him since he (leave) __________ school.
10. We (go) __________ to bed last night because we (be) __________ tired.
11. Laura (never, be) to France.
12. I (see) __________ an old friend of mine last week.
13. I love winter sports. I (be) __________ ice-skating many times. When I
was younger I (go) __________ to an ice-rink with my school I (fall)
__________ over a lot and I (not, can) __________ skate very well, but
really (enjoy) __________ it. Then last year I (visit) Austria and (skate)
__________ at an outdoor rink there. I (play, also) ice hockey. I never
(ski) __________ though. I (go) __________ on holiday to Switzerland
last month to go skiing, but on the first day I (slip) __________ on some
ice and (break) __________my ankle, so I (not, can) __________ski at all.
Exercise158
Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Past Indefinite.
Kevin ….. has lost ….. (lose) his key. He ….. (leave) it on the bus
yesterday.
I ….. (not / play) tennis since I was at school but I ….. (be) very good at it
then.
Mr. and Mrs. Little ….. (visit) Egypt. They ….. (go) there on their
honeymoon in 1967.
I think our teacher ….. (forget) about the test.! He ….. (not / say) anything
about it in the last lesson!
Sarah ….. (break) her leg. She ….. (fall) off a horse last week.
We ….. (sell) our house. Some people ….. (see) it last month and ….. (buy) it.
I ….. (finish) decorating my room. I ….. (paint) it last week and I ….. (put up) the new curtains last night.
They ….. (lose) their car. It ….. (run) away last week.
Peter ….. (pass) his driving test. He ….. (take) it last Friday.
10. We ….. (know) Kate since last year. We ….. (meet) her at a party.
11. I ….. (never / be) to Australia. I ….. (want) to go last summer but I …..
(can / not).
12. I ….. (not / be) out since we ….. (move) to our new house.
13. Tom ….. (see) this film twice. The last time he ….. (see) it ….. (be) a
week ago.
Exercise 159
Choose between the Present Perfect and the Past Indefinite. The first one has been done for you.
Stella McCartney, Paul McCartney's daughter, joined / has joined the troubled Paris fashion house Chloé barely a year ago. It took / has taken her just one year to reverse its fortunes. Previously Chloé was / has been virtually invisible as a major force in the world of fashion. But almost single-handedly she transformed / has transformed Chloé into the most talked about fashion brand in the world. She increased / has increased sales fivefold. Paris didn't see / hasn't seen anything like it since the young Yves St Laurent took / has taken the city by storm 30 years ago.
When she was / has been appointed it was / has been clear she knew / has known what she had / has had to do. "I want to bridge the gap between the consumer and the press. At the moment fashion is just sort of stuck in the middle."
So far, Stella stuck / has stuck to her philosophy of avoiding outrageous and uncommercial catwalk creations. She kept / has kept to the simple philosophy of designing clothes that she or her friends would want to wear. As her best friends are Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Yasmin Le Bon, it also brings her big publicity.
Exercise 160
Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.
My sister have been interested in medicine ever since she was a child.
Where and when have you first met your husband?
The dentist has asked us to wait during a few minutes.
The Red Cross has started in the 19th century.
We have posted the parcel three weeks ago. If you still haven't received it, please inform us immediately.
I has driven a car recently.
Jenny's really excited about going to Spain. She has ever been there before.
John is terribly upset. He broke off his engagement to Megan.
How many times was Wendy been late for work this week?
10. It's nearly twenty years since my father saw his brother. My father hasn't
seen his brother for nearly twenty years.
CONVERSATIONS
Exercise 161
Complete the dialogues. Fill in the blanks with the Present Perfect or the past Indefinite of the verbs in brackets.
1.
|
A: B: |
_____ you _____ (not / sell) your old car yet? Yes, my cousin _____ (give) me £ 500 for it last week. |
2. |
A:
B: |
_____ you _____ (not / chose) a dress for the party next week yet? Yes, _____ (buy) one yesterday. |
3. |
A: B:
|
Are you taking Chemistry 101 this semester? No, I _____ (take, already) it. I _____ (take) it last semester. This semester I'm in 102. |
4.
|
A:
B: |
Hi, Judy. Welcome to the party. _____ (Meet, you, ever) _____ my cousin? No, I _____. |
5. |
A: B: |
Do you like lobster? I don't know. I _____ (eat, never) it. |
6. |
A: B: A: B:
A:
B:
A: B: A:
|
Do you do much travelling? Yes, I like to travel. What countries _____ (visit, you)? Well, I _____ (be) in India, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Nepal, among others. I _____ (be, never) in any of those countries. When (be, you) _____ in India? Two years ago. I _____ (visit, also) many of the countries in Central America. I _____ (take) a tour of Central America about six years ago. Which countries _____ (visit, you)? Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. I _____ (want, always) to travel to other countries, but I _____ (have, not) the opportunity to travel extensively. I _____ (go) to England six years ago, but I _____ (go, not) anywhere since then. |
7. |
A: B: |
Look! Somebody _____ (spill) coffee on the carpet. Well, it _____ (be, not) me. I _____ (do, not) it. |
8. |
A: B: A: |
Ben _____ (break) his leg. Really? How _____ (that, happen)? He _____ (fall) off the ladder. |
9. |
A: B: A: B: |
Your hair looks nice. _____ (you, have) a haircut? Yes. Who _____ (cut) it? _____ (you, go) to the hairdresser? No, a friend of mine _____ (do) it for me. |
10. |
A: B: A: |
_____ (you, go) on holiday last year? Yes, I _____ (go) to Spain. _____ (you, ever, be) there? Yes, I _____ (go) there last year too. |
11. |
A: B: A: |
I _____ (sell) my old radio. Really? When _____ (you, sell) it? I _____ (sell) it yesterday. |
12. |
A: B: A:
|
I _____ (go) to the new sports centre yesterday. No kidding? I _____ (be, not) there yet. What's it like? It' fabulous! I _____ (see, never) such a fantastic sports centre before. |
Exercise 162
A: Complete the text. Use the Present Perfect or the Past Indefinite.
Film maker David Morris has been 1 (be) interested in the cinema since he _____ 2 (be) a small child. He _____ 3 (make) his first film when he _____ 4 (be) just twelve years old. He is now almost 40 and he _____ 5 (make) 30 films. David loves travelling. His work _____ 6 (take) him all over the world. He _____ 7 (be) to Africa, India, Australia, China, the USA and South America. Last year he _____ 8 (visit) Russia for the first time. David is married to the singer, Leena Lennox. They _____ 9 (be) married for ten years. They live with their two children on the Greek Island of Crete. They _____ 10 (buy) a house on the island in 1987 and they _____11 (live) there since then.
B: Ask and answer the questions about the text.
- How long has David been interested in the cinema?
- Since he was a small child.
- When _____ his first film?
- When he was 16.
How many films _____?
- 30.
_____ to Russia?
- Yes, he has.
When _____ there?
- He went there last year.
When _____ David and Leena _____ married?
- Ten years ago.
7. How long _____ on Crete?
- Since 1987.
C: Which countries and cities have you been to in your life? When did you go
to each place?
Example: