- •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.
Indefinite Tenses Present Indefinite
Exercise 22
Write the third person singular of these verbs.
get - gets cook - _____ stop - _____ like - _____ ask - _____ help - _____ |
leave - leaves sing - _____ read - _____ end - _____ cover - _____ drive - _____ |
teach - teaches finish - _____ kiss - _____ wish _____ mix - _____ pass - _____ |
carry - carries study - _____ fly - _____ play - _____ hurry - _____ play - _____ |
close - closes use - _____ go - _____ do - _____ live - _____ rise - _____ |
Exercise 23
Put the verbs in the correct column in the third person singular, then read them out.
work, play, come, watch, talk, dance, go, laugh, drive, smoke, kiss, sleep, swim, wash, mix, visit, close, know, ride, open, teach, speak, change, sit, try, bake, hate, arrive, begin, dress, choose, rob, cry, see
/ s / |
/ iz / |
/ z / | |||
/ f/, / k /, / p /, / t / |
/ s /, / z /, / ∫/, / t ∫/, / dз/ |
after other sounds | |||
he works.. …………. …………. …………. |
…………. …………. …………. …………. |
he washes.. …………. …………. …………. |
he swims.. …………. …………. …………. |
…………. …………. …………. …………. |
…………. …………. …………. …………. |
Exercise 24
What do they do at their jobs?
Answer the following questions choosing an appropriate phrase from the list. Why is the Present Indefiniteused here? Explain the spelling and pronunciation of the ending in the third person singular.
10. What does a sportsman do? 11. What does a farmer do?
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Choose other jobs. Say what those people do at their jobs.
Exercise 25
Add -sor-eswhere necessary.
Example:
My friend Abdul (1) … live …in an apartment near school.
My friend Abdul (1) … lives …in an apartment near school.
Abdul and Pablo
My friend Abdul (1) … live …in an apartment near school. He(2) … walk …to school almost every day. Sometimes he(3) … catch …a bus, especially if it’s cold and rainy outside. Abdul(4) … share …the apartment with Pablo. Pablo(5) … come …from Venezuela. Abdul and Pablo(6) … go …to the same school. They(7) … take …English classes. Abdul(8) … speak …Arabic as his first language, and Pablo(9) … speak …Spanish. They(10) … communicate …in English. Sometimes Abdul(11) …try … to teach Pablo to speak a little Arabic, and Pablo(12) … give …Abdul Spanish lessons. Abdul(13) … enjoy …having Pablo as his roommate, but he(14) … miss …his family back in Saudi Arabia.
Snakes
Snakes (1) … eat…all sorts of things. Eggs(2) …are… a favourite food of many snakes. When a snake(3) …eat…an egg, the snake first(4) …curl… around the egg. It(5) ... don’t want…the egg to roll away. Then the snake(6) … open …its mouth and…move…the egg into its throat. It(7) … squeeze…the egg with muscles in its neck. The egg(8) … break…and… go…into the snake’s stomach. Then the snake (9) …spit out …the eggshell. Snakes(11) … love …to eat eggs.
Exercise 26
Complete the sentences as in the example.
She … does not (doesn’t) …speak Italian.
They … do not (don’t) …go to school.
We ………………..swim very well.
He ……………….. watch TV every day.
You ………………..live in England.
Jill ……………….. get up at 5 p.m. every day.
I ……………….. eat bananas.
The sun ……………….. shine by night.
George ……………….. play chess very well, does he?
10. Employees ………………..leave their office before their boss.
11. Lunch break ……………….. last more than one hour.
Exercise 27
Use the words in italics to make negative sentences.
Example:
like, not
like, not |
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1. know, not 2. need, not 3. snow, not 4. speak, not 5. be, not 6. have, not 7. be, not 8. rain, not 9. have, not 10. shave, not 11. eat, not |
Mary and Jim are strangers. Mary _____ Jim. It is a nice day today. You _____ your umbrella. It _____ in Bangkok in the winter. I _____ French. I _____ hungry. A butterfly _____ a long life. Butterflies _____ large. It _____ every day. We _____ classes every day. Fred has a beard. He _____ in the morning. She _____ meat. She’s a vegetarian. |
Exercise 28
Complete the questions then answer them as in the example.
Do ……the girls like football? No,…… they don’t.……………….
……….. Jim eat beefburgers? Yes,……………………………….…
……….. you go to the university? Yes,………………………………
……….. she drink lemonade? No, ……………………………………
……….. he help his mother? No, ……………………………………..
……….. they walk to school? Yes,…………………………………...
……….. fish live in the water? Yes,…………………………………..
……….. your dog sleep in your bedroom? No,………………………
……….. you like oranges? No,………………………………………..
10. ……….. Ann and Mary visit their grandparents? Yes,…………….
Exercise 29