- •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.
Exercise 9
Complete the sentences using there and the verb forms in the box.
-
is
are
was
were
has been
will be
Example:
There _____ a terrible accident in Western road yesterday.
There was a terrible accident in Western road yesterday.
1. Look. _____ a policeman over there. Can you see him?
How many people _____ at the party last night?
I think _____ some snow later this evening.
Excuse me. _____ a post office near here?
_____ six hotels in this street ten years ago?
_____ a lot of cold weather recently.
The cinema was almost empty. There _____ very few people there.
There is a shortage of water because there _____ very little rain recently.
It’s not a very lively town. There _____ not much to do.
10. There _____ not many people at the conference I had seen before.
Exercise 10
Read the first sentence and then write a sentence beginning There … .
Example:
The roads were busy today. There was a lot of traffic.
This soup is very salty. There ………………………………in the soup.
The box was empty. There ………………………………….in the box.
The film was very violent. There …………………………….in the film.
The shops were very crowded. There……………..………..in the shops.
It was windy yesterday. There …………………………….…yesterday.
The beach was almost deserted. There …………………on the beach.
If you don't understand words, use a dictionary. If there …………….,
use a dictionary.
8.The newspaper carries lots of advertisements. There…..in the newspaper.
9. Someone has left an umbrella on the bench. There …………on the bench.
10. Nobody lives here. There ……………………………living here.
THERE … and IT… and THEY …
Exercise 11
Complete the sentences using the words in the box.
-
there it they is are
Example:
here? - Yes, ___. ___ in East Street. |
|
here? - Yes, there is.It’s in East Street. |
___ a good programme on TV this evening. ___ about the history of pop music.
___ some envelopes in my bedroom. ___ on my desk.
“ ___ any beer in the kitchen?” “Yes, ___ in the fridge.”
“ ____ a man waiting outside. Who ___ ?” “ ___ Jim Brown.”
“Look! ___ a light on in my bedroom!” “ ___ somebody in there.”
“ ___ a new restaurant in King Street.” “yes, I know. I went there last night.
___ very good.”
How far ___ from Moscow to Khabarovsk?
The soup is very salty. ___ too much salt in ___.
Look at the sky. ___ no clouds at all.
10. What day ___ today? Thank God ___ Friday. ___ two days off waiting
for us to relax.
11. ___ some people over there. I’m sure I am not familiar with them.
12. Nowadays ___ many traffic accidents. ___ dangerous for both drivers and
pedestrians.
13. ___ dangerous to walk in the road. ___ a lot of traffic there.
Exercise 12
Put in there is/was or it is/was. Some sentences are questions (is there…? / is it …? etc.) and some are negative (isn’t/wasn’t).
The journey took a long time. There was a lot of traffic.
What’s the new cafe like? Is it good?
“ ___ a bookshop near here?” “Yes, ___ one in Hill Street.”
When we got to the cinema, ___ a queue outside. ___ a very long queue, so we decided not to wait.
I couldn’t see anything. ___ completely dark.
___ trouble at the club last night. They had to call the police.
How far ___ from Milan to Rome?
___ Keith’s birthday yesterday. We had a party.
___ three years since I last went to the theatre.
I wanted to visit the museum but ___ enough time.
“ ___time to go?” “Yes, ___ nearly midnight.”
A few days ago ___ a storm. ___ a lot of damage.
___ a beautiful day yesterday. We had a picnic.
___ anything on television, so I turned it off.
___ an accident in King Street but ___ very serious.