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A. WRITE ALL TIME ADVERBIALS USUALLY USED WITH EACH TENSE.

The Present Continuous now, at the moment, today

The Past Continuous while, yesterday at two, for two hours yesterday, when he came

The Present Simple every day, every week, every month, every year, often, sometimes, usually,

always

The Past Simple yesterday, last week, last month, last year, in 1999, when I was little, in the past ,

(three years) ago

B. WRITE THE SENTENCES IN THE GIVEN TENSES AND SAY WHEN.

He (lock) the door…

Present Continuous He is locking the door at the moment. He isn't locking the door. Is he locking the door? Yes, he is. No, isn't. Past Simple He locked the door yeasterday. He didn't lock the door. Did he lock the door? Yes, he did. No, he didn'. Past Continuous He was locking the door yesterday at two. He wasn't locking the door. Was helocking the door? Yes, he was. No, he wasn't. Present Simple He locks the door every evening. He doesn't lock the door. Does he lock the door? Yes, he does. No, he doesn't.

The ghost (come) …

Present Simple The ghost comes every day. The ghost doesn't come. Does a ghost come? Yes, it does. No, it doesn't. Past Simple The gost came yesterday. The ghost didn't come. Did the ghost come? Yes, it did. No, it didn't. Present Continuous The ghost is coming at the moment. The ghost isn't coming. Is the ghost coming? Yes, it is. No, it sin't. Past Continuous The ghost was coming yesterday at two. The ghost wasn't coming. Was the ghost coming? Yes, it was. No, it wasn't.

Lisa and Finn (visit) the tower …

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Past Simple Lisa and Finn visited the tower last week. Lisa and Finn didn't visit the tower. Did Lisa and Finn visit the tower? Yes, they did. No, they didn't. Present Simple Lisa and Finn visit the tower every year. Lisa and Finn don't visit the tower. Do Lisa and Finn visit the tower? Yes, they do. No, they don't. Past Continuous Lisa and Finn were visiting the tower yeasterday afternoon. Lisa and Finn weren't visiting the tower. Were Lisa and Finn visiting the tower? Yes, they were. No, they weren't. Present Continuous Lisa and finn are visiting the tower today. Lisa and Finn aren't visiting the tower. Are Lisa and Finn visiting the tower? Yes, they are. No, they aren't.

The guards (sit) on a bench … Past Simple The guards sat on a bench yesterday. The guards didn't sit on a bench. Did the guards sit on a bench? Yes, they did. No, they didn't. Present Simple the guards sit on a bench every Monday. The guards don't sit on a bench. Do the guards sit on a bench? Yes, they do. No, they don't.

Past Continuous the guards were sitting on a bench yesterday at two. The guards weren't sitting on a bench. Were the guards sitting on a bench? Yes, they were. No, they weren't. Present Continuous The guards are sitting on a bench now. The guards aren't sitting on a bench. Are the guards sitting on a bench? Yes, they are. No, they aren't.

C. MAKE THE ABOVE SENTENCE -, ?, K.O.

D. WHAT HAPPENED TO PEPE ON HIS HOLIDAY TO PARIS? Notebooks are useful!!!! 1. While / Pepe wait for his plane / he see a pickpocket.

While Pepe was waiting for his plane, he saw a pickpocket.

2. While / he talk to a stewardess / someone steal his money.

While he was talking to a stewardess, someone stole his money.

3. While / he sit on the plane / he / want to buy some refreshments

While he was sitting on a plane, he wanted to buy some refreshments.

4. While / he tell the police about his bad luck / he notice the pickpocket

While he was telling the police about his bad luck, he noticed the pickpocket.

5. While / the police chase the pickpocket / he find the money in another pocket

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While the police was chasing the pickpocket, he found the money in another pocket.

6. While / he travel to his hotel in a taxi / tell the story to the driver

While he was travelling to his hotel in a taxi, he told the story to the driver.

7. While / he ask for a room at the hotel / another pickpocket steal his money

While he was asking for a room at the hotel, another pickpocket stole his money.

8. While / he tell the story about his stolen money to the receptionist / the policeman arrest him

While he was telling the story about his stolen money to the receptionist, the policeman arrested

him.

9. While / he scream / they push him into the Black Maria.

While he was screaming, they pushed him into the Black Maria.

10. While / he wait for his lawyer / they bring in the two pickpockets

While he was waiting for his lawyer, they brought in the two pickpockets.

11. While / he shout at them / a policeman come and take him to a solitary confinement

While he was shouting at them, a policeman came and took him to a solitary confinement.

12. While / he cry over his bad luck / his lawyer enter

While he was crying over his bad luck, his lawyer entered.

13. While / they leave the police station / Pepe tell his lawyer about the pickpockets

While they were leaving the police station, Pepe told his lawyer about the pickpockets.

14. While / he wait for his plane home / a film director come to him

While he was waiting for his plane home a film director came to him.

15. While / they talk / the director give him his money and tell him that that be a candid camera

While they were talking the director gave him his money and told him that that was a candid

camera.

16. Pepe (be) so angry he (punch) the film director on his nose and (get) arrested for a week.

Pepe was (be) so angry he punched (punch) the film director on his nose and got (get) arrested

for a week.

E. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES. USE THE PAST SIMPLE OR THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE.

1. While Peter was unlocking the door, he got a text message. 2. He was delivering mail when the dog tore his trousers. 3. While Donna was trying on a new dress at Harrods’s, she noticed Brad Pitt. 4. While they were celebrating New Year, a cork from the champagne bottle flew through the air. 5. While we were spending a lovely evening at our friends’, someone broke into our house. 6. They were driving very fast when the car crashed into a tree. 7. While Phil and Justin were admiring the girls from London, their girlfriends called them. 8. While he was cycling, he fell off a bike.

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9. While Rene and Joe were discussing English irregular verbs, their teacher entered the classroom. 10. While some boys were fighting, the teacher entered the room. 11. While John was practising the tuba, the police knocked on the door. 12. While we were talking about a famous bank robber, the police arrested him.

F. PUT THE VERBS IN BRACKETS IN THE CORRECT TENSE 1. John was playing (play) golf for two hours yesterday. 2. Doesn’t Peter sleep (not sleep) every night? 3. These men are having (have) a serious discussion about the past now. 4. Was Freda shopping (shop) yesterday at five?

Did she buy (buy) a new pair of shoes? – No, she didn’t (not), because she was (be) too sleepy to choose a pair.

5. It was (be) a horrible weather yesterday. It was raining (rain) the whole day.

6. Good Heavens, Maud was having (have) a bath for three hours yesterday. I was (be) afraid she died (die) in there. 7. I see (see) some mistakes here. 8. Harry had (have) a terrible stomach ache yesterday, but he didn’t go (not go) to the doctor’s. 9. Nancy often plays (play) with her mother’s knitting. 10. Does her mother scream (scream) when she is (be) angry? 11. While Joan was playing (play) tennis yesterday, a ball hit (hit) her. 12. George played (play) truant three times last week. I'm sure his parents grounded (ground) him when

the teacher called (call) them yesterday.

13. I was walking (walk) down the street yesterday when someone threw (throw)

a bucket of water on me. 14. You are writing (write) these exercises now. Don’t you like (not like) them?

15. Isn’t (not be) this a gorgeous dress? I am dancing / dance (dance) in it. 16. Bob is (be) a professional photographer. He takes (take) pictures all the time. At the moment he is

asking (ask) a policeman to pose for him.

17. Professor Kranjc doesn’t like (not like) noisy places. He likes (like) quiet moments at night when he

observes (observe) the evening sky. At the moment he is dreaming (dream) that he is looking (look)

at a new galaxy. Its name is (be) Galaxus Krancus.

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G. FORM WH QUESTIONS. 1. Tortoise Lightning is very adventurous.

Who is very adventurous?

What is tortoise Lightning like?

2. He decided to spend the weekend in town. PAST SIMPLE

What did he decide to do?

3. Several people saw him.

How many people saw him?

Who did several people see?

4. He left his home in Maple Road. PAST SIMPLE

What did he leave?

Where is his home?

5. He went through the town. PAST SIMPLE

Where did he go?

6. Jill Martin found him opposite the car park. PAST SIMPLE

Who found him opposite the car park?

What did she do?

Where did she find him?

7. The police brought him home.

Who brought him home?

What did the police do?

8. Sadie was shocked when she saw him.

Who was shocked?

What was the matter with Sadie?

When was she shocked?

9. Jono Grant lives in London. PRESENT SIMPLE

Who lives in London?

Where does Jono grant live?

10. He works in the music industry. PRES. SIMPLE

What does he do in the music industry?

Where does he work?

11. He writes dance music.

What music does he write?

12. Three times a year, he goes to Japan.

How often does he go to Japan?

Where does he go three times a year?

13. He plays his music at a club there.

Whose music does he play.

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Where does he play his music?

14. He is travelling to Heathrow airport now. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

What is he doing?

Where is he travelling?

15. He is thinking about his girlfriend in Tokyo. PR C.

Who is he thinking about?

16. Neesha and Tom visited Mr Roberts after school. PAST SIMPLE

Who visited Mr Roberts after school?

Who did Neesha and Tom visit after school?

When did Neesha and Tom visit Mr Roberts?

17. He looked very unhappy.

What did he look like?

18. He didn’t take the papers.

What didn’t he do?

19. Tom put a question on a notice board.

Who put a question on a notice board?

Where did Tom put a question?

20. That evening, he got a strange text message.

When did he get a strange text message?

What kind of message did he get? / What message did he get?

21. It was a threat.

What was it?

22. His cat Maggie disappeared.

Whose cat Maggie disappeared?

What happened to his cat Maggie?

23. The Eco-Challenge race takes place once a year.

What takes place once a year?

How often does the Eco-Challenge race take place?

24. There are four people in each team.

How many people are there in each team?

Where are there four people?

25. The competition is very hard.

What is very hard?

What is the competition like?

26. The natural environment is very important.

What is very important?

What is the natural environment like?

27. Before the race, each team must do something for the local people.

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When must each team do something for the local people?

Who must do something for the local people before the race?

What must each team do before the race?

Who must each team do something for before the race?

28. When it took place in Canada, only 14 out of 70 teams finished the race.

When did only 14 out of 70 teams finish the race?

How many out of 70 teams finished the race when it took place in Canada?

What did only 14 out of 70 teams do when it took place in Canada?

29. Our town changed a lot.

What changed a lot?

How much did our town change?

30. Twelve thousand years ago, it was a camp for Stone Age people.

When was it a camp for Stone Age people?

What was it 12 thousand years ago?

31. The people were hunters.

Who were hunters?

What were the people?

32. They lived in tents by the river.

Where did they live?

33. There was a forest round the camp.

What was there round the camp?

Where was there a forest?

34. Four thousand years ago, the town was a small village.

When was the town a small village?

What was a small village four thousand years ago?

What was the town four thousand years ago?

35. The people living there were farmers.

Who were farmers?

What were people living there?

36. They lived in simple houses.

In what houses did they live? / In what kind of houses did they live? / What were the houses

they lived in like?

37. There weren’t any streets.

What wasn’t there?

38. In 110, the town was a Roman town.

When was the town a Roman town?

What kind of town was it?

39. There was a bridge across the river.

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What was there across the river?

Where was there a bridge?

40. There were several shops.

How many shops were there?

41. There was a school.

What was there?

42. The town changed to a medieval village.

What changed to a medieval village?

What happened to the town?

43. There was a church.

What was there?

44. Once a week, there was a market.

How often was there a market?

What was there once a week?

45. In 1820, it was a busy city.

When was it a busy city?

What was it like in 1820?

46. There were a lot of houses, a church and a factory.

How many houses were there?

47. Lisa and Finn are talking to a guard at the tower of London.

Who is talking to a guard at the tower of London?

Who are they talking at the tower of London?

Where are they talking to a guard?

48. A couple of years ago, he saw a ghost.

When did he see a ghost?

What did he see a couple of years ago?

49. It was a ghost of Ann Boleyn.

Whose ghost was it?

50. He was locking the door when he saw a light.

What was he doing when he saw a light?

What did he see when he was locking the door?

51. She was coming down the steps.

Where was she coming?

52. She was wearing a long grey dress.

What was she wearing?

53. She was crying.

What was the matter with her?

54. The guard was standing at the bottom of the steps.

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Who was standing at the bottom of the steps?

Where was the guard standing?

55. He wasn’t dreaming.

What wasn’t he doing?

56. When she came down, she disappeared through the wall.

When did she disappear through the wall?

What happened when she came down?

57. Mel woke up.

Who woke up?

58. Her sister was sleeping.

Who was sleeping?

What was her sister doing?

59. Their house was on fire.

What was on fire?

What was the matter with their house?

60. She could see smoke outside her room.

What could she see outside her room?

Where could she see smoke?

61. She went to her friend’s house.

Where did she go?

62. Ben was skateboarding in the park when he fell.

Who was skateboarding in the park when he fell?

What was he doing in the park when he fell?

When was he skateboarding in the park?

63. He broke his arm.

What happened to him?

64. When he woke up in hospital, he couldn’t move it.

When couldn’t he move his arm?

What couldn’t he do when he woke up in hospital?

65. Jack was very nervous on the first day of his exams.

Who was very nervous on the first day of his exams?

What was the matter with Jack on the first day of his exams?

When was he very nervous?

66. He couldn’t sleep.

What couldn’t he do?

67. He woke up very early.

When did he wake up?

68. He made breakfast.

What did he make?

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H. WHAT COULD OR COULDN’T THEY DO AT THE AGE OF FOUR:

1. Patrick / surf / not

Patrick couldn’t surf.

2. Sheila / dance / yes

Sheila could dance.

3. Patrick and Sheila / speak / yes

Patrick and Sheila could speak.

4. Patrick and Sheila / ski / not

Patrick and Sheila couldn’t ski.

5. Sheila / play the piano / not

Sheila couldn’t play the piano.

6. Patrick and Sheila / sing / yes

Patrick and Sheila could sing.

7. Patrick / write / yes

Patrick could write.

8. Patrick and Sheila / cook / not

Patrick and Sheila couldn’t cook.

9. Sheila / read / yes

Sheila could read.

10. Patrick and Sheila / skate / not

Patrick and Sheila couldn’t skate.

11. Sheila / drive a car / not

Sheila couldn’t drive a car.

12. Patrick / sledge / yes

Patrick could sledge.

I. FOLLOW THE ROUTES AND WRITE DIALOGUES. START AT A DOT AND FINISH AT THE

STAR. WHAT CAN YOU SEE ON THE WAY?

Go along Church Road past a hotel. At the

zebra crossing go across the street. Go

through Winston park. At the end of the park

cross the street and turn left. Take the second

turning on the right and go along that street.

The ABC cinema is on the left.

Turn left on the cornere then go along Windy

hill and under the railway bridge. Aat the end of

the street, turn left again. At soem traffic lights

turn right. Go past some shops and the park.

Go along that street and then take teh first

turning on the left. Go along that street. At the

end of tthat street just go across and there is

tha cafe straight in front of you.

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Go along this street and on the corner turn left.

Go past a park. Turn right at the end of the park

at the traffic lights. Go past a museum. There's

a post office next to the museum on your left.

Go along this street, past the cinema and the

park. At the end of the park, turn left and go

along that street. It's Church Road. Go past the

police station. At the end of the park turn right

and there's a hotel on your right.

WRITE THESE EXERCISES SMILING OR YOU WILL BE SHOT!!!