- •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.
Past Perfect
Exercise 169
Read the situations and write sentences from the words in brackets.
You went to Jill's house but she wasn't there. (she / go / out) She had gone out.
You went back to your home town after many years. It wasn't the same as before. (it / change / a lot) ______________________________________
I invited Rachel to the party but she couldn't come. (she /arrange / to do something else) _____________________________________________
You went to the cinema last night. You arrived at the cinema late. (the film / already / begin) _____________________________________________
I was very pleased to see Tim again after such a long time. (I / not / see / him / for five years) ___________________________________________
I offered Sue something to eat but she wasn't hungry. (she / just / have / breakfast) __________________________________________________
Kevin wrote to Sally many letters. (but / she / never / reply / to his letters)
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We arrived at work in the morning. Everything was upside down. (somebody / break / into the office / during the night) _________________
We got home late. (the children / already / fall asleep)
10. We couldn't cross the river. (the flood / wash away / the bridge) ________
11. You were at Jim's at eight. (where / be / before / that?)
Exercise 170
What came First?
Read the sentences and name the action that came first. Then write one sentence with the Past Perfect and because.
Example:
Nick forgot his key. He couldn't get in.
Nick couldn't get in because he had forgotten his key.
Tom spent all his pocket money. He couldn't buy a pen.
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Ben felt ill. He ate four packets of crisps.
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Jenny didn't have breakfast. She felt very hungry.
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4. Mr. Bell couldn't read his letters. He broke his glasses.
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5. Nick couldn't play basketball. He hurt his thumb.
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Ben didn't turn off the tap. The bath overflowed.
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7. Mike forgot his wallet. He couldn't pay the restaurant bill.
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8. Jenny got sunburned. She forgot to put on some sun cream.
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9. Jane couldn't go out. She didn't do her homework.
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10. Sue failed the test. She didn't revise for it.
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Exercise 171
Read the situations and write sentences ending with before. Use the verb given in brackets.
The man sitting next to me on the plane was very nervous. It was his first flight.
(fly) He had never flown before. OR He hadn't flown before.
A woman walked into the room. She was a complete stranger to me.
(see) I ……………………………………………………………… before.
Simon played tennis yesterday. He wasn't very good at it because it was his first game.
(play) He ……………………………………………………………… before.
Last year we went to Denmark. It was our first time there.
(be) We ……………………………………………………………… before.
Mario felt very nervous when he first drove in Great Britain.
(drive) He ………………………………………………… on the left before.
She laughed at the joke. She rolled with laughter.
(hear) Probably, she ………………………………………………… before.
Mary was late for her class for the first time.
(be) She late………………………………………………………… before.
Last months he missed a lot of lessons and lagged behind the group.
He (do) …………………………………………………………… it before.
His dream was to ride a horse, at least once in his life.
(ride) He ……………………………………………………………… before.
10. Parent were upset. Their child told a lie.
(tell a lie) He ……………………………………………………… before.
Exercise 172