Revision. Active voice
EXERCISE 1.Correct the errors.
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 return to my hometown.
4. By the end of the 21st century, scientists will had discovered the cure for the 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 friend. 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 more than forty 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. While I will be studying tonight, I'm going to listen to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
12. We washed the dishes and clean up the kitchen after our dinner guests were leaving.
13. My neighbors are Mr. and Mrs. Jones. I know them ever since I am a child.
14. It's raining tomorrow morning.
15. Many scientists believe there is a major earthquake in California in the next few years.
16. 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 on 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.
EXERCISE 2.Discuss the differences (if any) in meaning in these groups of sentences. Some of the sentences need to be completed to make their meanings clear.
1. a. He watches television.
b. He is watching television.
2. a. I am sitting in class ....
b. I was sitting in class ....
3. a. I have finished my homework.
b. I had finished my homework ....
c. I will have finished my homework ....
4. a. The students had left before the teacher arrived.
b. The students left before the teacher arrived.
c. The students had left when the teacher arrived.
d. The students left when the teacher arrived.
e. The students were leaving when the teacher arrived.
5. a. I have been waiting for her for two hours.
b. I had been waiting for her for two hours ....
c. I will have been waiting for her for two hours ....
6. a. Ali has been studying Chapter Five.
b. He has studied Chapter Two.
c. He studied Chapter Two ....
7. a. She has been doing a lot of research on that project.
b. She has done a lot of research on that project.
8. a. I will study when you come.
b. I am going to study when you come.
c. I will be studying when you come.
d. I am going to be studying when you come.
e. I will have studied by the time you come.
f. I will have been studying for two hours by the time you come.
9. a. He worked for that company for two years.
b. He has been working for that company for two years.
10. a. The train will leave at 10:00 tomorrow morning.
b. The train is going to leave at 10:00 tomorrow morning.
c. The train leaves at 10:00 tomorrow morning.
d. The train is leaving at 10:00 tomorrow morning.
EXERCISE 3. In order to practice verb tenses, answer the questions in complete sentences. The questioner's book is open. The answerer's book is closed. Work in pairs, in groups, or as a class. If you use this exercise in pairwork, switch roles after Item 9.
1. What have we been studying? What is one tense we have studied since the beginning of the term? When, to the best of your recollection, did we study it?
2. What else will we have studied in this class by the time the term ends?
3. This class began on (date). Had you studied verb tenses before that?
4. We're going to finish studying Great Britain on (day or date). How long will we have been studying Great Britain by that time?
5. What were you doing at this time yesterday? What did you do after that?
6. What are you doing right now? How long have you been doing that?
7. What are you going to be doing at this time tomorrow?
8. What will you be doing tonight at midnight? What were you doing last night at midnight?
9. Where will you be living three years from now? Where were you living three years ago? Can you name one specific thing you did three years ago? Can you name one specific thing you will do three years from now?
10. What places have you been to since you came to Kyiv?
11. Make some generalizations about things you do.
12. What are some things you have done many times since you came to Kyiv?
13. What are some of the things you have done in your lifetime? When did you do them?
14. What have you done that no one else in this class (or in the world) has ever done?
15. What is the exact place you are sitting right now? How long have you been sitting there today?
How long will you have been sitting there by the time class is over?
How often do you sit there during class?
How many times have you sat there?
Before today, when did you last sit there?
Had you sat there before that?
Where were you sitting at this time yesterday?
Where are you going to be sitting at this time tomorrow?
EXERCISE 4.Use any appropriate tense of the verbs in parentheses.
1. John is in my English class. He (study) __________ English this semester. He (take, also) __________ some other classes. His classes (begin) __________at 9:00 every day.
2. Yesterday John ate breakfast at 8:00. He (eat, already) __________ breakfast when he (leave) __________ for class at 8:45. He (eat, always) __________ breakfast before he (go) __________ to class. Tomorrow before he (go) __________ to class, he (eat) __________ breakfast.
3. John is in class every morning from 9:00 to 12:00. Two days ago, I (call) __________ him at 11:30, but I could not reach him because he (attend) __________ class at that time.
4. Don't try to call John at 11:30 tomorrow morning because he (attend) __________ class at that time.
5. Yesterday John took a nap from 1:00 to 2:00. I arrived at 1:45. When I (get) __________ there, John (sleep) __________. He (sleep) __________ for 45 minutes by the time I got there.
6. Right now John (take) __________ a nap. He (fall) __________ asleep an hour ago. He (sleep) __________ for an hour.
7. Three days ago, John (start) __________ to read A Farewell to Arms, a novel by Ernest Hemingway. It is a long novel. He (finish, not) __________ reading it yet. He (read) __________ it because his English teacher assigned it.
8. Since the beginning of the semester, John (read) __________ three novels. Right now he (read) __________ A Farewell to Arms. He (read) __________ that novel for the past three days. He (intend) __________ to finish it next week. In his lifetime, he (read) __________ many novels, but this is the first Hemingway novel he (read, ever) __________.
9. Tomorrow, after he (eat) __________ dinner, John (go) __________ to a movie. In other words, he (eat) __________ dinner by the time he (go) __________ to the movie.
EXERCISE 5. Work in pairs.
speaker a:
• Use the questions in this exercise to initiate conversation with Speaker B.
• Do not simply read the questions. Look at the text briefly, then look directly at Speaker B each time you ask a question.
• If Speaker B does not answer fully or if you would like more information, ask your own questions in addition to those suggested.
• Pay special attention to verb tense usage in both the questions and the responses.
speaker b:
• Your book is closed.
• Answer the questions fully. Often your response will consist of more than one sentence.
• Answer in complete sentences in order to practice using verb tenses.
PART I.
1. What is happening in this room? What else is happening?
2. What was happening in this room when you walked in today? What else was happening?
3. What did you do yesterday? (Speaker A: Listen carefully for past tense verbs What else did you do? in the responses.)
And what else did you do?
4. How long have you been living in (this city)?
How long will you have been living here by the end of (the semester/term, etc.)?
5. Where did you eat dinner last night? What did you have?
How was it?
What did you do after you had eaten?
6. What were you doing at 8 o'clock last night?
What will you be doing at 8 o'clock tomorrow night?
7. Are you taking any courses besides English? How is everything going?
What are you doing in one of your (other courses I other English classes)?
8. How long have We been talking to each other? What have we been talking about?
9. How do you like living here?
Have you had any interesting experiences since you came here? Have you met any interesting people?
10. What do you think the world will be like when you are seventy years old?
PART II. Switch roles.
11. What are you doing right now?
What are you going to be doing for the next ten minutes or so?
12. What did you do last weekend? (Speaker A: Listen carefully for past tense What else did you do? verbs in the responses.)
And what else did you do?
13. What is the teacher doing?
How long has he/she been (doing that)?
14. What are you going to do for the rest of today? What will you be doing at midnight?
15. What will you have done by the time you go to bed tonight?
16. How long have you been studying English since you came here? How long had you studied English before you came here?
What have you been doing outside of class to improve your English?
17. What have we been doing for the past ten minutes or so? Why have we been (doing that)?
18. What are some of the things you have done since you came to (this city)?
19. Have you read a newspaper lately? What is happening in the world?
20. What countries have you visited?
When did you visit (a particular country)? Why did you go there?
What did you like about that country?
What did you dislike about that country?
Are you planning to go there again someday?
EXERCISE 6. Complete the sentences with your own words.
1. I will call you before I __________.
2. Last night I went to bed after I __________ my homework.
3. Tonight I will go to bed after I __________ my homework.
4. Ever since I was a child, I __________ afraid of dogs.
5. Jane's contact lens popped out while she __________ basketball.
6. Be sure to reread your composition for errors before you __________ it in to the teacher tomorrow.
7. By the time I left my apartment this morning, the mail carrier __________ the mail.
8. I have known Jim Bates since he ________ ten years old.
9. A black cat ran across the road as I _____________ my car to work this morning.
10. By the time I leave this city, I __________ here for four months.
11. Whenever Mark __________ angry, his nose gets red.
12. I __________ to the beach whenever the weather was nice, but now I don't have time to do that because I have to study.
13. We will have a big party when__________.
14. The next time I __________ to Hawaii, I'm going to visit Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano.
15. I had fried chicken the last time I __________ at that restaurant.