- •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 42
Complete the conversation. Put the verbs into a suitable tense in the Passive.
A:
How much is recycled ?
Nick: Jenny, listen to this. Over 8 million tones of paper _____ (use) in Britain every year, but only some of it _____ (recycle). One tonne of rubbish _____ (throw away) every year by the average British family of four - like us!
Jenny: I know. Only a little waste glass _____ (recycle), but more bottle banks _____ (provide) in the future. Plastic _____ (not recycle) at all. And last year over 7 billion drink cans _____ (throw away).
Nick: What about sisters? How many sisters _____ (throw away)?
B:
Has the thief been found?
Tom: The newsagent’s _____ (break into). About £850 _____ (take).
Nick: _____ the thief _____ _____ (find)?
Tom: No, not yet. The theft _____ only _____ (discover) an hour ago. There’s a room at the back of the shop where the money _____ (keep) in a safe. This morning the cleaner noticed that the window _____ (break), so she told the owner. A few people _____ (question) by the police, but nobody knows much. An officer said that any information _____ (welcome).
Nick: Will there be a reward?
Keys:
A: B:
are used has been broken into
is recycled has been taken
is thrown away has been found
is recycled was discovered
will be provided is kept
is not recycled had been broken
were thrown away have been questioned
were thrown away will be welcomed
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Exercise 43
Below is a short article about computers. Put the verbs in brackets into the Passive Voice. Choose the correct tense, or use the modal verb if one is given.
Example:
* These machines (control) by computers nowadays.
* These machines are controlled by computers nowadays
* Programs (can / record) on cassette.
* Programs can be recorded on cassette.
Computers then and now.
(1)The world’s first electronic computer (build) at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, although computer-like machines (build) in the 19th century. Computers (sell) commercially for the first time in the 1950s, and a lot of progress (make) since then. Computers now are much smaller and more powerful and they (can / buy) much more cheaply.
(2)Computers (use) in many fields – in business, science, medicine and education, for example. They (can/ use) forecast the weather or to control robots which make cars. The computer’s memory is the place where information (keep) and calculations (do).
(3)A computer cannot think for itself – it (must / tell) exactly what to do. A lot of difficult calculations (can / do) very quickly on a computer.
(4)And computers don’t make mistakes. Stories (hear) sometimes about computers paying people too much money or sending them bills for things they didn’t buy. These mistakes (make) by the programmers – the people who give the computer its instructions. Some years ago, a computer-controlled rocket belonging to the USA went out of control and (have to / destroy). The accident (cause) by a small mistake in one line of the program. This mistake cost the USA $18 million.
(5)Criminals have found out that “computer crimes” are often a lot easier than robbing banks. Hundred of millions of dollars (steal) from American businesses every year by people changing the information in computers.
(6)Large numbers of home computers (sell) recently. People know more about computers than they used to, and computers are playing a part in our lives. Progress (make) all the time. Many people believe we can look forward to the day when even our household jobs like cleaning (do) by computer-controlled robots.
.Keys:
(1) was built (3) must be told
had been built/ were built can be done
has been made (4) are heard / have been heard
were sold are made
can be bought had to be destroyed
(2) are used / have been used was caused / had been caused
can be used (5) are stolen
is kept (6) have been sold
are done is being made
are done /will be done
Exercise 44
Write a short paragraph about any of these things. Use the Passive in some of your sentences.
* pocket calculator * the video recorder
* the cellular phone * the UFO (Unknown Flying Objects)
Exercise 45
Error analysis
Find and correct the errors in the following.
Example: I dressed my clothes
Correction: I got dressed.
I am interesting in his ideas.
How many peoples have you been invited to the party?
English are spoken in many countries.
We has this room decorated last year.
It will said that the company is in difficulties.
They sent a telegram to the winner.
The winner was sent to a telegram.
Breakfast will be bring to your room.
Must the bill be paying in cash?
10. The house is being paint today.
11. They was decided to appoint a new manager.
12. “Life on the Mississippi” was written with Mark Twain.