Put the verbs into the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Tenses

1. By 1836 Dickens … already … popular with the English readers. (to become)

2. Dickens … shorthand before he could do some reporting in the House of Commons. (to study)

3. After he … school he … a clerk in a lawyer’s office. (to finish, to become)

4. Dickens … already … word-wide fame when he … to write Oliver Twist. (to earn, to begin)

5. Dickens … to read at an early age and … many books in his childhood. (to learn, to read)

6. After Dickens … much he … a writer and … his childhood and youth in some of his famous novels. (to suffer, to become, to describe)

Open the brackets using the Present Indefinite or Present Continuous Tense.

1. I (to live) at 12, Oxford Street. Where you (to live)?

2. What you (to do) at the moment? We (to move) to a new flat.

3. My mother always (to clean) the flat in the morning.

4. It (to be) seven o’clock in the morning. Mary (to make) her bed.

5. She (get married) tomorrow.

6. The boy (to have) breakfast now? – No, he (to do) his homework.

7. They (to work) from early morning till late at night every day, they (to want) to finish off the task as soon as possible.

8. Howe often you (to go) to evening classes?

Open the brackets using the verbs in the Present Perfect Tense or in the Past Indefinite Tense.

1. I (to rent) a flat and he is coming to live with me.

2. The telephone (to stand) on a small bamboo table beside the front door.

3. He (to park) the car and (to take) the stairs two at a time.

4. She (can) see it so clearly, too, the yellow house with white shutters which (to face) the sea.

5. I (to get up) and (to go) to the window.

6. Ben (to open) the sitting – room door and (to slip) out.

7. I ( to step) backward; then (to turn) and (to walk) to the gate.

6. Supply the correct tense: Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Perfect and Past Indefinite.

1. I can’t speak about this book, as I … it. (not to read)

2. The sun … the whole morning today. (to shine)

3. It is Friday today … you … him this week? – Yes, I … him on Monday. (to see)

4. Every day I … my watch at nine o’clock in the evening. (to wind up)

5. When … you … to Leningrad? I … to Leningrad in 1985. (to come)

6. Ann, what … you … here? I … for a friend of mine. (to do, to wait)

7. This student always … to speak English with his comrades. (to try)

8. … you … the dictionary? – Yes, I … it two days ago. (to)buy

Способы выражения будущего действия

Будущее действие может быть выражено при помощи трех времен английского языка.

Future action

Future Simple Present Simple

Present Continuous

Future Simple используется для выражения решения или намерения говорящего, которое было принято в момент речи; когда говорящий предлагает или обещает сделать что-то; а также для предсказания какого-либо факта (прогноз погоды и т.д.).

There are no train tickets for Murmansk. So I’ll fly.

A: We have no bread. B: I’ll go to the shop.

It will rain tomorrow.

Present Continuous используется, когда говорится о каком-либо запланированном действии в будущем, также используется для предсказания действия, на которое указывают некоторые факты.

A: What are you doing tonight? B: I’m meeting my friends.

It looks as though it’s raining tomorrow (It’s very cloudy).

В таких предложениях также можно использовать структуру to be going to…

What are you going to do tonight?

It looks as though it’s going to rain tomorrow (It’s very cloudy).

Present Simple в предложениях используется для выражения действия, которое будет происходить в соответствии с расписанием, программой, календарем и т.д.

The film starts at 7.30 in the evening.

The exam takes place on 2 April.

Также будущее действие может выражаться при помощи следующих времен: Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous.