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TENSES T 20
1. Fill in t he corr ect f orm of the verb All t enses
1. Myfamilyhave (bu y) some land in southern France recently.
They (buil d ) a summer house there at the moment.
2. Andy and Mary (go) to a concert tomorrow night. They
(lo o kf o r w a r d to) it the whole week.
3. onathon (w atc h) the news on T! every day and it(help)him
with his "nglish.
#. My car (br eak) down when $ (d ri ve) homefrom
work.$
(f ix) it if $ (know) what waswrong.
%ut $ didn&t so (h a ve) to take it to the garage.
'. hen he (found) Microsoft %ill *ates was only 2+ years old.
,e
(a l r e a dy writ e) his first com-uter -rogramme si years
earlier.
/. An accident (happ e n) near my house last night. A car(hi t)a
young man. ,e (r ide) his 0ike when someone in front of
him
suddenly (ope n) a car door. Many -eo-le
(s e e) the accident. The -olice (in t e r r o g at e) them last
night.. Mrs mith said that one dayshe
(retir e) from teaching. he said that
she (spend) her new free time learning a0out com-uters.
. $to music allnight.
4 (not s le e p) at all last night. omeone
(liste n)
5. $ (see) a film a week ago 0ut $ (notenjoy) it very much
0ecause $ 4 (a l r e a dy r e a d) the 0ook. $f $
(not r e a d) the 0ook $ 4 (p r obably
e nj oy)the film more.
1+. The 6udge sentenced the man to eight years in -rison 0ecause
he
(r o b) a 0ank.11.They
(stand) in the 7ueue for over an hour when the manager
(t e ll) them that there were no more tickets.
12. Alan (b e) in the car accident yesterday. The other driver
(lo s e) control of his car 0ecause he (f all)aslee-.
13. he (not s e e) her father since he (start) to
work in
Marseille two years ago.
1#. $ (sleep) when the fire 0roke out.
1'. 8inda -honed and e-lained that shethe net day 0ecause she (b
e) stillsick.
(not c a n) to come to the -arty
1/. $ (just see)thefilm9The:a!inci;ode = ?o $ (not ha v e) 0ut
$
(r e a d) the 0ook.
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TENSES T 20
1. My sister (f ly) home from 8ondon today. ,er flight
(a rr iv e)in an hour so $ (le a v e) for the air-ort right now
to get
there in time.
1. @nless he (s ell) more he won&t get much money.
15. hile he (w ai t) for the 0us there (b e) a
ro00ery at the 0ank. After the ro00ers (go) away the-olice
(co m e)0ut they (not c a n) to catch them.
2+. $ (use) to ski when $ was at the university 0ut $
(b r e a k)a leg five years ago and since then $ (not s ki)
any
more.
2. Fill the gaps with the correct tenses
1. $ (learn) "nglish for seven years now.
2. %ut last year $ (not work) hard enough for "nglish thatBs why
my marks (not
0e) really that good then.
3. As $ (-ass want) my "nglish eam successfully net year $
(study)
harder this term.
#. :uring my last summer holidays my -arents (send) me on a
language course to
8ondon.
'. $t (0e) great and $ (think) $ (learn) a lot.
/. %efore $ (go) to 8ondon $ (not en6oy) learning "nglish.
. %ut while $ (do) the language course $ (meet) lots of young
-eo-le from
all over the world.
. There $ (notice) how im-ortant it (0e) to s-eak foreign
languages
nowadays.
5. ?ow $ (have) much more fun learning "nglish than $ (have)
0efore the
course.
1+. At the moment $ (revise) "nglish grammar.
11. And $ (0egin already) to read the tets in my "nglish
tet0ooks again.
12. $ (think) $ (do) one unit every week.
13. My eam (0e) on 1' May so there (not 0e) any time to 0e
lost.
1#. $f $ (-ass) my eams successfully $ (start) an a--renticeshi-
in
e-tem0er.
1'. And after my a--renticeshi- may0e $ (go) 0ack to 8ondon to
work there for a while.
1/. As you (see can) $ (0ecome) a real 8ondon fan already.
