- •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.
Reported (Indirect) Questions
Exercise 27
Make a new sentence from the question in brackets.
Example:
(Where has Tom gone?) Do you know ________________________ .
Do you know where has Tom gone?
(Where is the post office?) Could you tell me _________________ .
(What’s the time?) I wonder ______________________________ .
(What does this word mean?) I want to know __________________ .
(What time did they leave?) Do you know _____________________.
(Is Sue going out tonight?) I don’t know ______________________.
(Where does Carol live?) Have you any idea __________________ .
(Where did I park the car) I can’t remember ___________________ .
(Is there a bank near here?) Can you tell me __________________ .
(What do you want?) Tell me ______________________________ .
(Why didn’t Kay come to the party?) ________________________ .
(Do you have to park here?) Do you know ____________________ .
(Who is that woman?) I’ve no idea __________________________ .
(Did Ann receive my letter?) Do you know ____________________ .
(How far is it to the airport?) Can you tell me __________________ .
(How mach will it cost?) Have you any idea ___________________ .
(Is this correct?) I doubt ___________________________________ .
Exercise 28
You have been away for a while and have just come back to your hometown you meet Jerry, a friend of yours. He asks you a lot of questions.
How are you?
Where have you been?
How long have you been back?
What are you doing now?
Where are you living now?
Why did you come back?
Are you glad to be back?
Do you have any plans to go away again?
Can you lend me some money?
Now you tell another friend what Jerry asked you. Use reported speech.
Example:
He asked me how I was.
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Exercise 29
Tina has left school but she hasn’t got a job yet yesterday she had an interview for a job at a pet shop. A man and a woman interviewed her. The next day Tina told her friend Sharon what they had asked her. Give Tina’s words.
Example:
They asked me how old I was.
They asked me if I’d had a job before.
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Reporting a Dialogue or a Conversation Exercise 30
Rewrite the following conversation in Reported Speech.
A “How can I lose weight?” Alan said.
“You mustn’t eat sweets or oily food. You can eat potatoes, though. You should also get plenty of exercise”, said the doctor.
“Shall I join a gym?” said Alan.
“You needn’t join a gym. You can go jogging every day”, said the doctor.
… Alan asked the doctor how he could lose weight …….
B “How can I get a job?” Jane said.
“You can look through the newspapers at the job advertisement. You can also go to the Job Centre. I’m sure they could find you a job”, said Julie.
“Shall I go to a private employment agency?” said Jane.
“You could, but it will cost you a lot of money and you don’t have much”,
said Julie.
… Jane asked Julie how she could get a job …….
Exercise 31
Rewrite the conversation in Reported Speech.
“Oh Roger! What a surprise!” Lisa said at the sight of her husband.
“Hello Lisa! Happy birthday!” Roger said, giving her some flowers.
“’Wow-they are lovely!” Lisa said. “Thank you”.
“Would you like me to put them into water for you?” Roger asked.
“Yes, please”, Lisa said.
“Let’s go out tonight, shall we?” Roger said. “I’ve found a new restaurant which I think you’ll like”.
… Lisa gave an exclamation of surprise at the sigh of her husband ………..
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Exercise 32
Rewrite the following conversations in Reported Speech.
A “Sally, would you like to go out tonight for a change?” Daniel asked.
“What a lovely idea! Why don’t we go for a meal?” Sally said.
“Well … mm … possibly, but I’ve already bought two tickets for the opera”, Daniel said.
“Even better. But I’ll walk out if you fall asleep like the last time!” Sally threatened.
“Not at all! I only had my eyes closed to enjoy the music”, Daniel
explained.
“All right then, I’ll go, but you should keep your mouth closed if you’re going to snore”, Sally said.
… Daniel asked Sally if she would like to …….
B “John’s late, said Mr. Brown.
“He must have got stuck in traffic”, said Barbara. “Shell I phone him?”
“No, you needn’t phone him, but you’d better tell his secretary to check today’s diary. He may have an appointment this morning”. Said Mr. Brown.
… Mr. Brown said that John was late ……….
Exercise 33
Write the exact words the customs officer asked Tracy.
The customs officer asked Tracy if she had got anything to declare. He asked her if she bought anything in the Duty Free Shop. He also asked her which hotel she was going to stay at. Then he asked her if she minded opening her suitcase, Next he asked her whose camera that was. He asked her if she was meeting anyone there. Finally he asked her what she had got in the bag and told her to have a pleasant stay.
Have you got anything to declare?
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Exercise 34
Write the exact words Miss Prim said to her students.
Miss Prim told her students not to talk when she’s talking. She told them to give their homework to her at the end of each lesson. She asked them not to write on the desks. She told them to put their hands up if they had a question. She also asked them not to eat in the classroom. She told them to write everything in pen and asked them to throw their rubbish into the wastepaper bin. Finally she told them not to leave the classroom without permission.
Don’t talk when I’m talking!
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