- •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.
Perfect Continuous Tenses Present Perfect Continuous
Exercise 199
Complete the sentences. Use the Present Perfect Continuous.
Example:
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10. It _____ all day. It is still raining right now. 11. My back hurts, so I _____ on the floor lately. The bed is too soft. 12. Right now I'm sitting at my computer. I _____ here since seven o'clock. 13. The situation continues to be serious., and troops _____ their lives to rescue people from the floods. |
study
wait not / live drive not / feel play
talk
try
cry
rain sleep
sit
risk |
Exercise 200
Write a question for each situation.
Example:
John looks sunburnt. You ask: (you / sit in the sun) __________________
Have you been sitting in the sun?
You have just arrived to meet a friend who is waiting for you. You ask: (you
/ wait / long?) ________________________________________________
A friend of yours now is living in Baker Street. You want to know "How
long…?" You ask: (how long / you / live/ in Baker Street)? ____________
A friend tells you about his job - he sells computers. You want to know
"How long…?" You ask: (how long / you / sell / computers)? ___________
You meet a friend in the street. His face and hands are very dirty. You ask:
(what / you /do)? _____________________________________________
Your friend's family always go to Ireland for their holidays. You want to
know "How long…?" You ask: (how long / your family / go / there) _______
Your new group mate is going in for sports and looks very athletic. You
ask: (what kinds of sports / you / go in for)? _________________________
Years ago your mother started writing to a pen friend. They still write to
each other regularly now. You ask: (How long / you / write / to each other)?
Mr. May is a teacher. You ask: (How long / you / teach)?
Your dad collects butterflies. All his friends enjoy looking at his collection. They ask: (you / collect / only butterflies / or any other insects)?
10. Ben likes daydreaming. When you come into the room he doesn't notice
you. You ask: (what / you / dream of/ again)?
Exercise 201
Rewrite each sentence using the Present Perfect Continuous form of an appropriate verb and for or since. If necessary, look at the verbs below to help you.
Example:
Henry moved to California three years ago.
Henry has been living in California for three years.
The project to send astronauts to Mars began in 1991.
__________________________________________________________
Campbell began a life sentence for murder in 1992.
___________________________________________________________
Colin James took over as head of the company six months ago.
___________________________________________________________
Graham's knee injury began at the US Open earlier this year.
___________________________________________________________
Local authorities began to invest heavily in new computer systems at the
beginning of the 1990s.
___________________________________________________________
My father started driving his own car at the age of sixteen.
___________________________________________________________
There are fewer knives and forks in the canteen than a month ago.
___________________________________________________________
We played a lot of golf together last summer.
___________________________________________________________
Glasgow began to hold city festivals to celebrate the cultures of other countries several years ago. This year the focus is on Sweden.
___________________________________________________________
10. She is unemployed. She lost her job a month ago.
___________________________________________________________
go on disappear |
invest live |
run serve |
suffer look for |
not / play drive |
Exercise 202
Fill in the blanks with for or since.
Tom and Mary have been building a house for 1 two years. They have been dreaming of finishing it _____ 2 last summer but they have been having problems _____ 3 a few months because of the weather. In fact, it has been raining and snowing _____ 4 October so they haven't been able to put the roof on yet. This weekend they are trying to put in the windows. They have only been working _____ 5 8 o'clock but they feel like they've been doing it _____ 6 hours because it is very difficult. They have been saving up _____ 7 a long time but they haven't been able to hire any workmen yet. Tom has been looking for an evening job _____ 8 a week and Mary has been working overtime _____ 9 Christmas, so they will have enough money soon. They haven't been going out _____ 10 they started saving - but when the house is finished they are going to have a big party to celebrate.
Exercise 203
Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.
Look! It had been snowing.
Your eyes are red - has you been crying?
It has being raining heavily all night.
Work to repair the bridge has been continuing throughout this summer.
Over the last six months I am been learning how to play the flute.
We've stayed at a small hotel near the sea.
We've been staying at this hotel a couple of times before.
Sales has been increasing for some time.
She's been driving since 3 years now.
10. How long ago have they been living next door to you?
CONVERSATIONS
Exercise 204
Complete these dialogues. Use the Present Perfect Continuous.
Dialogue 1
Tim: Joe: Tim: Joe:
Tim: Joe: Tim: Joe:
Tim: Joe: Tim: Joe: |
Hello Joe. What 1 have you been doing (you / do)? I _____ 2 (play) tennis with Helen. Who is Helen? She's my new girlfriend. I _____ 3 (go) out with her for two weeks. Does she live here? Yes, she _____ 4 (live) here for two months. Why haven't I met her? Because she _____ 5 (leave) home early and she _____ 6 (come) back late every day for the last six weeks. Why _____ 7 (she / do) that? Because she _____ 8 (look for) a job. I must meet her some time. Well, let's all go out together tomorrow then. |
Dialogue 2
Twelve students live in a big old house. Today they're all helping to clean it and tidy it up. Read the conversation and say how long they've been doing their jobs. Use a phrase with for.
Example:
Gary has been throwing away rubbish for an hour and a half.
Adam: Gary:
Melanie: Adam: Lisa:
Gary:
Lisa: Adam:
Emma:
Adam:
Melanie: Gary: Adam: |
What are you doing Gary? Throwing away rubbish. I started at half past ten, and it's twelve o'clock now, look. I'm washing up. I've been doing it since half past eleven. Sadie and I are tidying up. We started at half past ten. Has anyone seen a bucket? I've been looking for one since ten to twelve. I think Alison and Jason had a bucket. They're working in the garden. They've been there since nine o'clock. What's Don doing? He's cleaning the stairs. He's been doing that since Melanie started washing up. And I'm repairing this toaster. I started at eleven o'clock, but it still won't work. Trevor's mending the door bell. He began the job at about twenty to twelve. Daniel and Rebecca are brushing carpets. They started at ten. Let's all go out and have some lunch soon. Good idea. |