Exercise for tenses and indirect speech

Homework for tenses Homework for tenses I Simple present or present continuous 1 I (have) coffee for breakfast every morning 2 My brother (work) in a shoes store this summer 3 The student (look up) th[.]

Homework for tenses.

I Simple present or present continuous.

now

catch the train

(cook) in the morning

II The present perfect continuous tense.

1 Kevin is studying He began studying three hours ago

2 I’m learning Spanish I started learning Spanish in December

3 An is looking for a job She began looking for a job for six months ago

4 Mary is working in London She started working there on 18 January

.since 18 January

………

5 George smokes He started smoking five years ago

……… for five years

III Present perfect or present perfect continuous.

yet

………

………

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you think she (forget) ……… to come?

there

………

to go to the movies

IV make sentences with present perfect or present perfect continuous

1 My uncle / work / the Beer factory since 1972

………

2 He / talking / the teacher / one hour

………

3 They / already / see / royal tombs / Hue

………

4 It/ rain / since nine o’clock

………

5 He / just / leave / his village.

………

6 They / swim / the river /two hours

………

V Present tenses.

VI Simple past or present perfect.

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7 I (read) ……… that novel by Hemingway several times before.

VII Simple past or past continuous.

back from the office

………

………

VIII make sentences with Past continuous and simple past.

………

8 It / raining / when we / get / school

………

9 Tom / talk / another boy when I / see / him this morning

………

10 When the bell / ring / I / have / lunch

………

11 While Bob / clean / windows/ Peter / wash / dishes

………

12 while / we / read / novel/she / listen / radio

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IX Simple past or past perfect.

last week

X Past tenses.

XI The simple present tense, the simple future tense, the present perfect tense

or the future perfect tense.

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XII The simple present tense, the simple future tense or the future continuous tense.

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XII Give the correct tense of the verbs in brackets

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Going to the circus.

a 63 bus to take us to the Elephant and Castle, because the pictures are just

…………

said; “ I am very sorry It was meant to hit you It was meant to hit the boy in front.”

2

the little girl and the wolf

along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother Finally the little girl did come

your grandmother?” asked the wolf The little girl said ‘yes’ So the wolf (3 ask)

that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on She (8

…………

that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap, the

…………

wolf did not look in the least like anybody’s grandmother So the little girl (10 take)

dead

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XIII Error analysis.

1 I am studying here since last January

2 By the time I return to my country, I am away from home for more than three years

3 As soon as I will graduate, I going to my hometown

common cold

5 I want to get married, but I don’t meet the right person yet

6 I have been seeing that movie three times, and now I am wanting to see it again

7 Last night I have had dinner with two friends I knew both of them for a long time

8 I am not like my job at the restaurant My brother wants me to change it I am thinking he is right

9 So far this week, the teachers are giving us a lot of homework every day

10 There are fewer than 40 presidents of the United States since it became a country George Washington had been the first president He was become the president in 1789

11 Mr Sellers was just getting off the plane when he feels a sharp pain in her chest

12 When I got home to my apartment last night, I use my key to open the door as usual But the door didn’t open I trying my key again and again with no luck

So I am knocking no the door for my wife to let me in Finally the door opens, but I don’t saw my wife on the other side I saw a stranger I had been try to get into the wrong apartment! I quickly apologizing and am went to my own apartment

13 By the end of this year, I had done all the exercises in this book

14 I am liking this program very much

15 My sister has been waiting for me for two hours when I arrived

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