Lesson 10 Continuous Tenses

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, I’ll go over some background details.

13) After that, I’ll move on to…

14) Then I’ll look at…

15) To start with, I’ll review…

16) Finally, I’ll review the main points.

17) I’ll start by describing…

18) Let me now turn to…

19) Let’s move on to…

20) To sum up briefly, then, …

21) In conclusion, then, …

22) What I’m getting at is…

23) In other words, …

24) To put it another way, …

25) The point I’m 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) I’ll 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) I’d like to deal with that questions later, if that’s all right.

35) Do you mind if we press on? I’ll answer that at the end.

36) There’s no time now, but let’s 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 или 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 или 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 или 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?

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