- •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.
Because…
Write ten sentences about James with because an a verb in the Past Perfect, like this:
Example:
James couldn't play football because he hadn't learnt to play as a child.
Exercise 226
Another genius
Work with a partner. Invent a story about another amazing child genius. Write the story about his / her life in a short paragraph. Use the Past Perfect and words and phrases such as by the time, at the age of, after, before, as soon as.
Past Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Continuous?
Exercise 227
Put the verb into the most suitable form, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous.
It was very noisy next door. Our neighbours were having (have) a party.
We were good friends. We had known each other for a long time.
John and I went for a walk. I had difficulty keeping up with him because he _____ (walk) so fast.
Mary was sitting on the ground. She was out of breath. She _____ (run).
When I arrived, everybody was sitting round the table with their mouths full. They _____ (eat).
When I arrived, everybody was sitting round the table and talking. Their mouths were empty but their stomachs were full. They _____ (eat).
Jim was on his hands and knees on the floor. He _____ (look) for his contact lenses.
When I arrived, Kate _____ (wait) for me. She was rather annoyed with me because I was late and she _____ (wait) for a very long time.
I was sad when I sold my car. I _____ (have) it for a very long time.
10. We were extremely tired at the end of the journey. We _____ (travel) for
more than 24 hours.
Past Perfect Continuous or Present Perfect Continuous?
Exercise 228
Use the Past Perfect Continuous or the Present Perfect Continuous.
It is midnight. I (study) __________ for five straight hours. No wonder I'm getting tired.
It was midnight. I (study) __________ for five straight hours. No wonder I was getting tired.
Mary suddenly realized that her mother was asking her a question. She couldn't answer because she (daydream) ___________ for the last ten minutes.
Wake up! You (sleep) __________ long enough. It's time to get up.
She __________ (work) as a clerk for twelve years before she resigned.
I __________ (search) for a house for a week now but so far I haven't found anything suitable.
She __________ (cry). Her eyes are red.
She __________ (cry). Her eyes were red.
She __________ (call) on clients since this morning.
10. Norma and John have been married for 20 years. They __________ (live)
in New York since 1998. John __________ (work) on Wall Street for four
years and he has made a lot of money since he started working there.
Norma hasn't worked since they moved to New York but she __________
(write) a book for the past two years. She has had a lot of spare time
since their son left home five years ago to work in France.
11. They were wet because they __________ (walk) in the rain.
12. On entering the bathroom I got annoyed. somebody __________ (use)
my toothbrush.
13. She went to the doctor. Her leg _________ (ache) for two days.
Exercise 229
Translate the sentences from Russian into English. Mind the use of the Past Perfect Continuous.
Она долго работала и чувствовала себя совершенно разбитой.
Она пришла в институт и закончила перевод, который делала накануне.
Он жил в Киеве пять лет перед тем, как переехал в Москву.
Когда мы пришли, они уже нас давно ждали.
Он не знал, давно ли она живет здесь.
Как долго российские ученые проводили исследования космоса, прежде чем первый человек полетел в космос?
В комнате все было в ужасном беспорядке. Вероятно, дети играли там в индейцев все утро.
Повар резала мясо и овощи в течение получаса, прежде чем начала их тушить.
Пациент мучился от зубной боли дня два, до того как пошел к зубному врачу.
10. Чтобы успешно сдать экзамен, студент упорно готовился к нему
целую неделю.