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.



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.



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

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