- •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 Continuous or Past Perfect?
Exercise 218
Choose the Past Perfect Continuous form of the verb if appropriate. If not, use the Past Perfect.
I _____ the view many times before, but it never failed to impress me. (see)
The opposing sides in the war _____ since the president was overthrown. (fight)
I _____ Megan since we were at school together. (know)
For years we _____ about buying new carpets, and last weekend we finally went out and ordered some. (talk)
My car was once again in the garage for repairs. This was the third time it _____ since I got it. (break down)
Before now we _____ on where to go on holiday. (always agree)
7. She took a bottle from the bag she _____ all the way from home. (carry)
We _____ for visas well before our departure date, but still hadn't heard
anything by the day we were due to leave. (apply)
9. He _____ all the way from New York to see me. (fly)
10. When the plane was diverted, it _____ from London to Frankfurt. (fly)
11. The avalanche _____ some people 500 meters down the mountain but no
one was hurt. (carry)
12. She _____ for the same company since she qualified. (work)
13. He _____ for jobs, without success, since leaving university. (apply)
14. He _____ finally _____ his way up from the shop floor to a management
position.
15. Ken gave up smoking two years ago. He _____ for 30 years. (smoke)
Exercise 219
Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Perfect Continuous or Past Perfect.
Mr. Thomas was exhausted. He 1 had had (have) the worst morning of his life! Everything 2 _____ (go) wrong. He 3 _____ (drive) for work for half an hour when suddenly his car broke down. Not wanting to be late he decided to start walking and try to catch a bus. After he 4 _____ (walk) for over an hour, it began to rain. However, just at that moment a taxi appeared and Mr. Thomas jumped in. When he arrived at the office, he realized that he 5 _____ (leave) his wallet in his own car and he had no money to pay the driver.! He rushed into the office, followed by the angry taxi driver. However, an important business meeting 6 _____ (just / start). Mr. Thomas was wet and dirty because it 7 _____ (rain) and his boss was very angry because he 8 _____ (wait) for him to arrive for over an hour. After explaining what 9 _____ (happen) to his boss, Mr. Thomas borrowed a car and went home to change. When he arrived home he realized to his horror that someone 10 _____ (break into) his house. What a morning!
Exercise 220
Fill in with the Past Perfect Continuous or the Past Perfect.
When I entered the house something smelt awful. Someone 1 had been cooking (cook) and 2 _____ (burn) the meal. I 3 _____ (visit) the house once before and 4 _____ (meet) the family but I didn't know what 5 _____ (happen) since then. The house was a mess. The children 6 _____ (play) in the living room and 7 _____ (leave) their toys all over the floor. Someone 8 _____ (leave) all the windows open. It 9 _____ (rain) for hours and all the curtains 10 _____ (get) wet and dirty. I asked the children where their parents were. They told me that their mother 11 _____ (be) in hospital for the past two weeks. Their father 12 _____ (look after) them since then. Obviously he 13 _____ (do) his best, but he couldn't do any better since he worked all morning and had to leave them alone most of the day. I had to do something to help them.
Exercise 221
Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.
She has written three books before she became famous.
After Jim and Terry had been finishing their breakfast, they took their bags
and go to the river to fish.
3. Her eyes were wet. She has been crying.
4. He was driving for an hour when he reached the village.
5. Kate had black ink on her hands. She had written for three hours.
Dave had stains on his shoes. He had cut the grass. He had been cutting
all the grass in the yard.
8. You were out of breath. Were you running?
9. How long did he live there before you got acquainted with each other?
10. He looked angry. Has he been arguing?
CONVERSATIONS
Exercise 222
Complete these dialogues. Use the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous.
Dialogue 1
ane:
Mum: Jane:
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Mum, Last night i woke up and thought I _____ (eat) a huge sponge cake. _____ you _____ (dream), dear? Well, I'm not sure, but when I made my bed, Half my pillow _____ (go)! |
Dialogue 2