Ex 29 Make up suitable sentences, using the Present Perfect Tense.
| 1. The wind | see | at the Moscow Art |
| Theatre since I was a boy. | ||
| 2. I | just stop | it will happen one day. |
| 3. The Blue Bird | not answer | from North to East. |
| 4. You | always be kind | everything for your trip. |
| 5. The rain | be on | to you about this new arrangement? |
| 6. They | change | him lately. |
| 7. My aunt | always say | to me. |
| 8. The secretary | arrange | my question yet. |
| 9. Nobody | ever speak | her this week? |
| 10. Who | call on |
Ex 30 Translate the following sentences, using the Present Perfect Tense.
1. — Вы бывали когда-либо в Карелии? — Нет, но я очень много слышал о ней и собираюсь поехать туда как-нибудь летом. 2. Почему вы ничего не сделали, чтобы организовать поездку в эти исторические места? 3. Мы условились встретиться на станции, тебе это удобно? 4. Я заходил к нему на этой неделе. Он чувствует себя значительно лучше. 5. Мне нравится, как вы расставили книги на полке. 6. Что с ним случилось? Я давно его не вижу. 7. Я уверен, он простудился. Погода так быстро изменилась. Сразу стало холодно. 8. Ему очень нравится книга, которую вы ему дали. Ему всегда нравились такие книги. 9. Мы еще не решили, кто из нас пойдет на конференцию. 10. Этот фильм идет с понедельника. 11. Я уже заплатил вам за билет. 12. Я здесь новый человек. Я здесь всего несколько дней. 13. Она только что позвонила ему. Он придет попозже. 14. Я вижу, что ты мне не рассказал всю правду. 15. Его лекция очень интересная. Его лекции были всегда интересными.
Ех 31 Make up sentences with the following groups of words, using either the Past Indefinite or the Present Perfect, supply the missing words.
1. the boy; catch cold; no doubt.
2. Shakespeare; many comedies; tragedies.
3. last night; wonderful ballet; "Swan Lake"; the Bolshoi Theatre.
4. the writer; not yet; finish; new book he's writing.
5. during; war; her family; two years; in Siberia.
6. for the last few weeks; thousands; people; visit; the Tretyakov Gallery.
7. last summer; holiday; the Crimea.
8. I am hungry; because; not yet; lunch.
9. this story; happen; many years ago.
The Past Perfect Tense
Ex 32 Study the following chart.*
| 1. By three o'clock yesterday he had arrangedeverything for the trip. 2. He said that they had left Moscow a week before. 3. She told me that she had known him since 1962. 4. When we arrived at the stadium, the match had already started. 5. As soon as (when, after) they had finished breakfast the children ran out to play. 6. He did not want to go to the cinema because he had seen the film on TV. |
Ex 33 Complete the following sentences, using the Past Perfect Tense (see the chart above).
(A) 1. He told her that he (buy a TV set the year before). 2. The man at the station said that the train (leave already). 3. Mary told me that she (not get a letter from her son yet). She said that she (not hear from him for some weeks). 4. He understood that he (get off at the wrong station). 5. He said that his parents (always live in the country). 6. I didn't know that she (change her address). 7. He didn't remember how it all (happen). 8. We were sure that she (tell the truth). 9. I saw that the child (catch a cold). 10. She hoped that I (pay for the tickets already). 11. When he woke up next morning and looked out of the window he understood that it (rain heavily during the night).
(B) 1. When we came back, the telegram (arrive already). 2. When I got to the station the train (already leave). 3. The rain (already stop) when we started. 4. When I finished school my elder sister (be a teacher for two years). 5. We (make all the arrangements already) when we learned that he wouldn't come.
(C) 1. I knew her immediately because my brother (describe her to me very well). 2. The militiaman stopped her because she (cross the street in the wrong place). 3. I was not hungry because I (have lunch just an hour before). 4. Nobody knew when he came in because he (enter the house through the back door). 5. I thought he knew English well because he (live in England for some years). 6. It happened to him because he (always be too sure of himself).
(D) 1. As soon as they (take a decision) they could discuss less important questions. 2. After we (make a fire) it became warm. 3. When I (throw out all the old newspapers and magazines) I could arrange my new books nicely on the shelf. 4. After he (pay the money for the plane tickets) he had very little left in his pockets. 5. I met her soon after I (learn the news). 6. When he (finish his work) he went to bed.
Ex 34 Practise the following according to the model.
Model: Marytold us a story shehad never (not) told us before.
1. When I was at the Tretyakov Picture Gallery last, I saw some pictures there I —. 2. At their dinner party we met some people we —. 3. I went for a walk and decided to take the road I —. 4. He taught me Judo, in a way nobody —. 5. He showed us the pictures he —. 6. She spoke of something she —. 7. The lecture was very interesting, we heard something we —. 8. The dinner was quite unusual, I ate something —.