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8/18/2019 The Past and Perfect Tenses
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revision of
past
and perfect tenses
I Choose the
r ight
teoses (present
perfect. past or past perfect:
simple or progressive).
1
Reports
are
coming in thaL a train
crash)
near
Birmingham. According
to eyewitnesses.
t hit)
a
co
ncrete block which somebody pllt)
on tbe
line.
2 Halfway·to th e office Paul (turn) round
and
go) back home. because he
forget) to
turn
the
gas ofT.
3 I
do)
housework
aU
day today. I
clean)
every room in Ihe house.
4 I
lie)
io bed thinking about getting up when the doorbeU
ring).
5 t wasn f surprising
that
she
start)
getting toothache. She
not
go) to the
dentist for two years.
6 I
play)
a lot of bridge recently.
7
When
1
get)
home everybody
watch)
TV.
8 We not see) your
mother
for ages.
9 How long you/earn) EngUsh?
10 London chnnge) a lot since we
first
come) to live here.
11 How many times you see) this film? This is the flI
st
time I see) it.
12 who s that? I never see) him before in my life.
13 I hear Joe get) married last summer.
14 I ofUn wonder) where she get) her money.
15 You read) Pam MarshaU s latest book?
16 They
just
discover) a new fucl- it s half the price
of
petrol.
and
much
cleaner.
I?
You hea
r)
tlle storm last night?
18 My sister be) married three times.
19 While she talk) all
(he
phone the children start) fighting
and
break) a
window.
20 He used to talk to us for hours about
all
the interesting things he do) in
his
Ufe
21 You know. she stand) looking
at
that picture for the last twenty ntinutes.
22 The old cross stalld) on top
of
the hill as long as anybody
can
remember.
23 I spend) a lot
of
time travelling since I gel) this new job.
24
When
I be) at school we all study) Latin.
25 After he finish) breakfast he sit) down to write some lettel S.
26 When I meet) him he work) as a waiter for a year or so.
27 I never
learn
to ski.
28
youfirush) with the bathroom yet?
29 We live) in Scotland Wltil I be) eighteen.
30
She hnw) a hard life. but she s always sntiUng.
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2 Choose
the
right
tenses (present perfect. past
or
past perfect;
simple or
progressive).
Goiog to the Pictures
Thataftemoon we all (] get) ready to go to the pictures. We(2 get) a
63
bus
to take
us
to the
E
lephant and
Castle. because
the
pictures
are
just next
door. There (3 be a great big queue waiting
to
go in and we 4 be at the
very back. Soon we
5
get
in.
The
picture 6
already start and
it
was very
dark in there. We had to go down some stairs to get
to
our seats but instead
of walking down them we
7
fa1J down them. Soon we were
in our
seats.
We (8 sit) there
wat
ching the
film
when something
(9
IIit)
me th
e head.
It was an ice-cream tub. J 10 turn round to see who it was and a Uttle boy
who 11 sit) two rows behind me said. (
am
very sorry. It wasn t meant to
rut you .
It
was meant to rut the boy in 'coot:
An
onymous
child
The
lJttle
Girl
and the
Wolf
One afternooo a big wolf 12 wait in a dark forest for a Iinle girl to come
along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did
come along and
she
(13 CIlrry a basket of food. AIe you carrying
that
basket
to your
grandmother? asked the wolf.
The
liWe girl said yes. she
was. So the wolf (14 ask her where her grandmother lived and the liule
girl (15 fell) him and he (16 disappear tolO the wood.
Wheo
the
littJe girl (17
open) th
e door of her grdlldmother's house she
18 see
that
tllere was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown
on. Sbe 19 approach) no
nearer
than twenty-five feet [rom the
bed
when
she 10
see that
it was not her grandmother
but
the wolf. for even in a
nightcap a wolf does not look id the least Uke anybody's grandmother. So
the
little girl (21 take
an
automatic pistol out of her basket aod
(22
shoot
the
wolfdead.
Moral:
It
is
oot
so easy to fool little
girls
nowada
ys as it used to be.
lames Thurber: Fables for Ollr
Time
(adapted)
Rioting students battle against police
May 7 1968). In
th
e last two days. Paris (23 see the worst street
fighting sioce th e Liberation in 1944. Up to 30.000 students, locked
out
of
their
own campus
yesterday by
th
eSo
rboune
rector. Jean Roche. (24fighl)
the
tear gas of the riot police with banicades. bricks. paving stones and
Molotov cocktails.
The trouble (25 be femlenting for some time. On March 20. six students
26 ht) arrested after
an
anti-American demonstration; the next day. a
mass sit-in at lbe Nanterre ca mpus (27 begin . Last Friday. the police -
whose alleged brutality is said
to
have sparked off
th
e violence - forcibly
evicted tlle students, who were led by Daniel
Cohn-Beornt.
All day yesterday, the Latin Quarter (18 be
tbearena
for runniugstreet
fights ceutred
on
the Boulevard St Germain.
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IVBit
I bascrashed: hit:
had put
2
turned:
went;
had
forgotten
3 have been dOing:
bave
cleaned 4 was l
yi
ng: nmg
5 started: had
not
been
/go
ne 6 have been playing 7 got: was walching
8
hav
en t seen 9
have you
been learning ID has Changed:
came
h
ave you
Sttn: ·vc
seell
12
have
nt:Vcr seen 13 got
14 have oneo
wondered:
ga
l ] 5 Have you re
ad
] 6
have
just discovered
17
Oidyouhear
8
hasbeen
]9
w
as
talking; started: broke
20
haddone
2
has been
standing 22
bas stood
23 have
spent
I have
been spending; got
24 was: studied 25
had
finished: sat 26 met :
had
een
working
27 have neverlearot 28 Haveyou6nished 29 lived: was 30
hashad
2 I
gol
2
got
3 was 4
were
5
got
6 had
already sta
rt
ed
7 fell
8
were
silting 9 hit 10
turned
I1
was
sitting 12 walted/
was
waiting
] 3
was carrying
14
asked
15
told ]
6
disappeared
17
opened ]
8
saw
19
had
approached 2 saw 21 took 22 shot 23
has
seen
24 have ) fough l 25 has/bad been 16 were 27 began 28 was