TENSES
TENSES
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
1. Who ___________(watch) TV?
2. Tina ___________ (do) grammar exercises.
3. I ___________ (eat) a pizza.
4. We ___________ (sit) in the classroom.
5. I ___________ (not write) an email.
6. Amy ___________ (not go) to school today.
7. We ___________ (not have) fun today.
8. My team ___________ (not win) the match.
9. My parents ___________ (drive) to work now.
10.___________ they ___________ (read) magazines? Yes, they are.
PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT COUNTINUOUS
PAST SIMPLE
1. When I was in school, I _____ (do) my homework.
2. She _______ (like) chocolate milk when she was a girl.
3. It always _______ (rain) when we lived in Seattle.
4. Joey and Mike _______ (be) friends a long time ago.
5. ______ Martha ____________ (pass) her exam?
6. What ______ you ____________ (have) for dinner?
7. I ____________ (not have) a shower this morning.
8. ______ you ____________ (see) your friends last weekend?
9. Ben ____________ (not go) to school yesterday.
10. ______ you ____________ (like) the concert ?
11.I ____________ (not stay) at home last night. 8 Elaine ____________ (not
go) to university.
12.What ______ you ____________ (buy) at the supermarket?
13.They ____________ (not walk) to school.
PAST CONTINUOUS
1. Mr. Robers and his daughter ______________ (walk) in the park at 7 a.m.
yesterday morning.
2. Janice ____________ (not listen) to her English teacher when he asked her
a hard question.
3. Who ____________ (make) that noise while Billy ____________ (read) the
pharagraph?
4. The Johnsons ____________ (watch) a horror film when the doorbell rang.
5. I ____________ (drive) to the office when I saw an accident on Palm Street.
6. _______ you _______ (sleep) when I texted you about the party yesterday
afternoon?
7. Where _______ you _______ (go) at 10 p.m. last night? I saw while you
____________ (leave) .
8. My grandfather ____________ (plant) an olive tree while we ___________
(water) the flowers.
9. Isabella ____________ (take) a shower when the electricity went off this
morning.
Past simple and Past Continuous
How are you. I (1) (receive) your letter last week. Thank you for the
recipe for the cake I (2) (ask) for. I made it last week and it (3)
(be) very nice. I now (4) (have) a new job in a supermarket in the city
centre.I go there every day at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and (5) (work)
there till 10 o'clock in the evening. I am very happy because my sister
(6) (work) there too so we travel to and from work together. I
(7) (get) my first wages last week and I went shopping immediately! I
(8) (buy) a new stereo for my bedroom. It is gold and black and
(9) (look) very nice. My brother (10) (come) to stay with me
for a few days next week. He (11) (arrive) on Saturday so I am going to
collect him from the station. After I collect him, we are going to that Mexican
restaurant near the park. (12) (you/want?) to come with us? You can
(13) (call) me to tell me if you want to come or not. John told me that
you (14) (pass) your Spanish exam last month. Congratulations.
(15) (be?) difficult? You know that I (16) (be) terrible at
languages but you are better. (17) (you/go?) to visit Spain for your next
holiday so you can practice it?
Sara.
PRESENT PERFECT
I 1 _______ never _______ (stay up) late at night in my life. Maybe, only once.
Last New Year’s Eve I 2 _______ (go) to bed at half past twelve. I 3 _______ never
_______ (be) away from my hometown for more than two days, but I 4 _______
(travel) abroad. Last year I 5 _______ (go) to Paris by train: I 6 _______ (leave) in
the morning and 7 _______ (get) back home for dinner! Some people say that my
life’s boring, but I don’t agree. I 8 _______ (make) a lot of friends since I 9
_______ (move) here in 1985.
3.1 Read the text and write the correct forms of the verbs in brackets
Three lions rescued a twelve-year old girl kidnapped by seven men who wanted to
force her into marriage, 1. ________________ (chase) off her abductors until she
was rescued by Ethiopian police. The men 2. ________________ (hold) the girl for
a week in the remote south-west, before the lions chased them away.
"Unfortunately, these young girls 3. ________________ (often/force) to accept
the marriage. Everyone thinks this is some kind of miracle, because normally the
lions 4. ________________ (attack) people. The girl’s crying could be mistaken for
the sound from a lion baby, which in turn could explain why the lions 5.
________________ (not/eat) her. They 6. ________________ (stand) guard
when we found her. Then they just left her like a gift and went back into the
forest.
The girl 7. ________________ (take) by seven men before the lions found her.
The men were the ones who wanted to make her 8. ________________ (marry)
one of them. If the lions had not come, then it could have been much worse”, said
Sergeant Williams in Kefa province.
Kidnapping young girls 9. ________________ (be) part of the marriage custom in
Ethiopia for a long time. The United Nations Organization 10. ________________
(estimate) that more than 70 percent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction,
practiced in rural areas where most of the country’s 71 million people live.