- •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.
What had they been doing?
Use the words from the box in the Past Perfect Continuous to complete the sentences.
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eat
fight
repair
run
revise
swim
try
wait
watch sit
read
Example:
Jenny's eyes were tired.
She had been reading all evening.
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Amanda was hot and sore. She __________ in the sun. |
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Jane had oil on her hands. She __________ a friend's motorbike. |
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Tom was hot and out of breath. He __________ in the park. |
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Ben's clothes were dirty. He __________ with Jason. |
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Sue was angry. She __________ for Mike for twenty minutes. |
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Jane was nervous. She __________a TV programme about crime. |
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Jenny had a stomach ache. She __________ sour grapes. |
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Sue was tired. Sue __________ for exams all night. |
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Mike was cold. He __________in an unheated pool. |
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Sasha fell asleep. He __________to learn the past Perfect Continuous. |
Activity
About You
Talk about the last time |
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What had you been doing? How long had you been doing it? For example:
Last Thursday evening I felt very tired because I had been playing basketball for two hours.
Last night my feet ached because I had been standing in the cinema queue for an hour.
Last Sunday I was very wet because I had been walking in the rain around town for hours.
Exercise 216
Who's guilty?
Inspector Soames is investigating the murder of Henry Farthing. He has discovered that shots were heard at 9.13 last Saturday night. He has asked everyone in Henry Farthing's block of flats what they had been doing before they heard the shot.
Look at picture the and write what they said they had been doing.
THE PARKERS We had been having our supper.
BILL JONES My wife and I had been watching television.
THE WILSONS _______________________
MARY WELLS _______________________
THE COOKS ______________________
THE BAXTERS ______________________
MAX PIM _______________________
THE WOODS _______________________
Sarah GREEN ______________________
8. ALF BROWN _______________________
Do you know who the murderer was? Write your reason.
I think the murderer was ________________________________because he / she said that he / she _________________________________, but he /she _____________________________________.
Exercise 217
Read the situations and complete the sentences.
We played tennis yesterday. Half an hour after we began playing, it started to rain.
We had been playing for half an hour when it started to rain.
2. I had arranged to meet Tom in a restaurant. I arrived and waited for him.
After 20 minutes I suddenly realized that I was in the wrong restaurant.
I _____ for 20 minutes when I ______.
3. Sarah got a job in a factory. Five years later the factory closed down.
At the time the factory _____, Sarah _____ there for five years.
4. I went to a concert last week. The orchestra began playing. After about ten
minutes a man in the audience suddenly began shouting.
The orchestra _____ when _____.
They drove along the road. After half an hour they understood that they
were lost.
They _____ when they _____.
6. I felt very cold. I stood outside for over two hours.
I _____ when I _____.
7. He began working as a newspaper reporter. Then he became a
businessman.
He _____ as a newspaper reporter before he _____.
Last Friday Norma, our secretary, began typing letters. After about twenty
minutes our boss asked her into his office.
Norma, our secretary, _____ for about twenty minutes when our boss
_____.
9. Jim took driving lessons. Three months later he got a driving licence.
Jim _____ for three months before he _____.
10. This time make your own sentence:
I began walking along the road. I _____ when _____.