- •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.
Functions of the Verb to have Exercise 12
The verb to have can be notional, auxiliary and modal (have to). Name the function of the verb to have in the following sentences.
Example:
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a) notional verb b) auxiliary verb |
c)modal verb |
1. I’m having a sandwich.
2. You had a telephone last year. - Yes, but we haven’t got one now.
3. I think I’ll just have a cup of tea.
4. Have you got to clean the stairs? - Yes, we have to wash the hall floor,
too.
5. Are you having a good holiday?
6. Did you have a look at the picture?
7. We’ve had some lovely weather lately, haven’t we?
8. The children didn’t have a ride on the donkey.
9. My friend doesn’t have a house in the country.
10. Did you have a good time at the zoo yesterday?
11. You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.
12.They had an argument about money.
13. I have to go now.
14. Have you filled in the application form?
15. Ned had to stay in bed for a week.
16. Have you got to get up early?
Exercise 13
Consider the predicates in the following sentences. Distinguish between the
auxiliary, modal and full notional status of their finite verb. Translate into Russian.
They may have a telephone conversation.
I have a spare ticket for the concert.
Who could have done such a thing?
“Are you having tea?” “Yes, I am.”
Do you have a walk before going to bed?
Shall he have breakfast in bed?
Jerry has got to stay here till two.
You won’t have to queue for tickets; they have been booked in advance.
We have an amateur theatrical society in our club.
10. I have dinner at home.
11. Why have you become so absent-minded, my dear fellow?
12. You will have to do as you were told.
I shouldn’t have allowed that to happen, believe me, my dear Eliot, if I
had been there.
Have for Actions
Exercise 14
Have is used to talk about actions and experiences in a number of expressions.
Have |
breakfast I lunch I dinner I a meal I a drink I a cup of tea I some coffee I a beer I a cigarette |
a bath I a shower I a wash I a shave I a sleep I a rest I a dream | |
a swim I a walk I a game of tennis I a game of football, etc. | |
a holiday I a day off work I a party I a good time, a bad time etc. | |
a conversation I a talk I a chat I a quarrel I a row I a fight I a disagreement I an argument | |
a baby ( = to give birth to a baby) | |
a look ( = to look) | |
a try / a go ( =to try) |
Complete these sentences. Use an expression from the list and put the verb into the correct form where necessary.
have a cigarette have a nice time have a shower |
have a good flight have a swim have a party |
have a baby have a rest have a chat |
have a look have lunch have a shave |
Example:
I don’t eat much during the day. I never _____.
I don’t eat much during the day. I never have lunch.
David likes to keep fit, so he _____ every day.
We _____ last Saturday. It was great – we invited lots of people.
Excuse me, can I _____ at your newspaper, please?
“Where’s Jim?” “He _____ in his room. He’s very tired.”
I met Ann in the supermarket yesterday. We stopped and _____.
I haven’t seen you since you came back from holiday. _____?
Suzanne _____ a few weeks ago. It’s her second child.
I don’t usually smoke, but I was feeling very nervous, so I _____.
The phone rang, but I couldn’t answer it because I _____.
You meet Tom at the airport. He has just arrived. you say: “Hello, Tom. _____?”
Are you going to _____ today, or are you growing a beard?
Exercise 15
Transform the following sentences using have + noun to describe an action instead of the corresponding notional verb.
Example:
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10. They walk in the garden. |
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