Grammar Exercises
Ex. Put the verbs into Present Continuous Tense
(NOW) 1. The boys (to run) about in the garden. 2 I (to do) my homework. 3. John and his
friends (to go) to the library. 4. Ann (to sit) at her desk. She (to study) geography. 5. A young
man (to stand) at the window. He (to smoke) a cigarette. 6. The old man (to walk) about the room. 7. The dog (to lie) on the floor. 8. You (to have) a break?
Ex.2 Put the verbs into Present or Past Continuous Tenses
1. I (to write) an English exercise now. 2. I (to write) an English exercise at this time yesterday, 3. My little sister (to sleep) now. 4 My little sister (to sleep) at this time yesterday. 5. My friends (not to do) their homework now. They (to play) volley-ball. 6. My friends (not to do) their homework at seven o'clock yesterday. They (to play) volley-ball. 7. You (to eat) ice-cream now? 8. You (to eat) ice-cream when I rang you up yesterday
Ex.3 Put the verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous
1. I (to go) to the cinema yesterday. 2.1 (to go) to the cinema at four o'clock yesterday. 3. I (to go) to the cinema when you met me. 4. I (to do) my homework the whole evening yesterday. 5. When I (to enter) the classroom, the teacher (to write) words on the blackboard and the pupils (to copy) them into their exercise-books. 6. They (to get) ready to go out when it (to begin) raining. 7. Yesterday at one o'clock I (to have) lunch at the canteen. 8. When he (to come) in, I (to do) my exercises.
Ex.4 Put the verbs into Future Simple, Future Continuous.
1. I (to do) my homework tomorrow. 2. I (to do) my homework at six o'clock tomorrow. 3. When I come home tomorrow, my family (to have) supper. 4. When you come to my place tomorrow, I (to read) your book. 5. Don't come to my place tomorrow. I (to write) a composition the whole evening. 6.1 (not to go) to the cinema tomorrow. I (to watch) TV the whole evening. 7. What you (to do) tomorrow? 8. What you (to do) at eight o'clock tomorrow?
Lesson 11 My future specialty
The Plan of Your Presentation:
1) Welcome your audience.
2) Introduce your subject.
3) Outline the structure of a talk.
4) Give a summary of your findings.
5) Make conclusions.
6) Answer the questions of your audience.
Useful phrases:
Welcoming your audience:
7) Good morning to you all.
8) Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome.
9) Hello. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to
Introducing your subject:
10) The purpose of this presentation is to
11) Today I want to talk to you about
Giving an overview of your talk:
12) First of all, Ill go over some background details.
13) After that, Ill move on to
14) Then Ill look at
15) To start with, Ill review
16) Finally, Ill review the main points.
17) Ill start by describing
18) Let me now turn to
19) Lets move on to
20) To sum up briefly, then,
21) In conclusion, then,
22) What Im getting at is
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23) In other words,
24) To put it another way,
25) The point Im making is
26) A good example of this is
27) Another example of this is
28) To give you an example
Explaining rules for questions:
29) Feel free to interrupt me if you have any questions.
30) Ill make sure we have enough time for questions at the end.
31) Now, does anyone have any questions?
32) Can I answer any questions?
33) Are there any final questions?
34) Id like to deal with that questions later, if thats all right.
35) Do you mind if we press on? Ill answer that at the end.
36) Theres no time now, but lets chat about it afterwards.
Thanking your audience:
37) Thank you all for listening.
38) Thank you very much for attention.
Lesson 12 Perfect Tenses
Grammar Exercises
Ex. 1. Turn next sentences into Present Perfect.
1.1 am eating my breakfast. 2. We are drinking water. 3. He is bringing them some meat and vegetables. 4. You are putting the dishes on the table. 5, They are having tea. 6. She is taking the dirty plates from the table.
Ex.2 Open the brackets, using the necessary form of the verb Present Continuous or Present Perfect.
1. What are you (to talk) about? 2. We have just (to talk) about it. 3. He has just (to say) something about it. 4. She is (to tell) them some interesting story. 5. He has (to tell) us nothing about it, 6. She has (to tell) them some stories about dogs.
Ex.3 Put the verbs into Present Perfect Past Simple.
1. We (to travel) around Europe last year. 2. My father knows so much because he (to travel) a lot. 3.1 (to see) Pete today, 4. She (to see) this film last Sunday. 5. Alex (to meet) his friend two hours ago. 6.1 just (to meet) our teacher.
Ex.4. Put the verbs into Past Simple Past Perfect.
1. When I (to come) home, mother already (to cook) dinner. 2. When father (to return) from work, we already (to do) our homework. 3. When the teacher (to enter) the classroom, the pupils already (to open) their books. 4. Kate (to give) me the book which she (to buy) the day before. 5. Nick (to show) the teacher the picture which he (to draw). 6. The boy (to give) the goats the grass which he (to bring) from the field.
Ex.5. Put the verbs into Future Simple, Future Continuous Future Perfect.
1. I (to do) my homework by six o'clock tomorrow. 2. When I come home tomorrow, my family (to have) supper. 3. When you come to my place tomorrow, I (to read) your book. I (to do) my homework by the time you come. 4. Don't come to my place tomorrow. I (to write) a composition the whole evening. 5.1 (not to go) to the cinema tomorrow. I (to watch) TV the whole evening. 6. What you (to do) tomorrow?
