- •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 Continuous or Past Continuous?
Exercise 211
If the underlined verbs are correct, put a . If they are wrong, correct them using either the Past Continuous or the Present Perfect Continuous as appropriate.
I was expecting the book to end happily, but in fact it was really sad.
The opposition groups were fighting the government on this issue for years, but so far without success.
The protesters have been campaigning for some months now to prevent the new road being built.
He has been looking nervous until I told him to sit down and relax.
Work to repair the bridge has been continuing throughout this summer.
Before she retrained as a computer programmer she has been working as a secretary.
I was turning to leave when she said, "Maybe you'd like to stay for dinner."
I was receiving the magazine for some time and enjoy reading it immediately.
I was watching TV until midnight last night.
10. It 's been raining heavily all night.
Exercise 212
Translate the sentences from Russian into English. Mind the use of the Present Perfect Continuous.
Почему ты такая бледная? Что случилось? - Ничего. Я просто работала весь день в саду, поэтому я такая усталая сейчас.
До этого она резала хлеб.
Она навещает всех своих родственников уже в течение месяца.
Когда я прихожу домой, моя семья уже ждет меня около часа к ужину.
Сегодня так жарко. Я весь день мечтал прийти домой и принять прохладный душ.
Чтобы похудеть, она уже два месяца сидит на диете.
Он не учился полгода. Сейчас он поправился и продолжает свои занятия.
К настоящему моменту команда тренируется уже три недели.
Я температурю уже несколько дней. Думаю мне нужно пойти к врачу.
Она здесь уже полчаса и из них четверть часа разговаривает по
телефону.
Я жду тебя уже час. - Ты меня не заметил. Я здесь уже 10 минут.
Ты давно его знаешь? -Я знаю его много лет и знаю очень хорошо.
Мы живем рядом с детства.
Past Perfect Continuous
Exercise 213
Complete the sentences using the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs in brackets.
Example:
I _____ (stand) there for nearly a half an hour when I realized I was at the wrong bus stop.
I had been standing there for nearly a half an hour when I realized I was at the wrong bus stop.
Maria's sister _____ (study) at the university for eight years before she
finally passed her exams.
"I'm really sorry I was so late last night." "That's OK. We _____ (not / wait) long."
The strange thing was that we _____ (just / talk) about ghosts when we heard the noise upstairs.
"Robert moved from Manchester to London in 1988." "How long _____ (he / live) in Manchester?"
She returned from home where she _____ (stay) with her friends.
Sue _____ (cycle) quite fast until she reached the hill.
By the smell in the room and his guilty expression I could tell that Alex _____ (smoke) a cigar.
The principal called Carmen into his office because she _____ (not / attend) classes.
I had to give Peter some money when I found out that he _____ (not / pay) his bills.
10. He told the police that he _____ (not / try) to steal the car. He said he
thought it belonged to his brother.
11.The police _____ (look) for the criminal for two years before they caught
him.
12. When Judy got home, her hair was still wet because she _____ (swim).
13. The patient _____ (wait) in the emergency room for almost an hour before
a doctor finally treated her.
Exercise 214
Read the situations and make sentences from the words in brackets.
I was very tired when I arrived home.
(I / work / hard all day) I had been working hard all day.
The two boys came into the house. They had a football and they were both
very tired.
(they / play / football) __________________________________________
Ann woke up in the middle of the night. She was frightened and didn't know where she was.
(she / dream) ________________________________________________
When I got home, Mike was sitting in front of the TV. He had just turned it off.
(he / watch / TV) _____________________________________________
Andrew died last week.
(he / suffer / from cancer / for some time) __________________________
Mason was arrested.
(people say / he / do / something illegal) ___________________________
At least two hundred people were waiting in line to buy tickets to the game.
(Some of them /stand / in line / for more than four hours) _____________
Jack suddenly realized that the teacher was asking him a question. He
couldn't answer.
(he / daydream) ______________________________________________
When I entered the house something smelt awful.
(someone / cook / and / burn / the meal) __________________________
10. Paul's head ached.
(he / sit / in the sun / too long) __________________________________
Exercise 215