D Time expressions with prepositions
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- Для чего предназначена промывочная жидкость
- Complete the dialogue using the verbs in brackets.
- Permanent situations (company activities)
- Complete the passage using the verbs in the box.
- Look at the information about Berli Jucker on page 7, and write down some similar information about the business activities of your company.
- Task 6. Translate into English.
- W) am/is/are + S + Ving..? ? Who is Ving …?
- Put the verbs in brackets into present continuous.
- Two friends meet in Paris. Read the dialogue and put the verbs into the present continuous.
- Continue these sentences using a verb in the present continuous.
- Find the English equivalents.. Translate into English.
- Present simple vs present continuous
- A Routine vs moment of speaking
- Practice. Exercise 1. Routine vs moment of speaking. Decide if the speaker is talking about routine activities or activities going on at the moment of speaking. Put the verbs into the present simple or the present continuous.. Exercise 2. General activiti
- B Fill in the blanks with the verbs in the box, using the present simple or present continuous.
- Make up sentences using the following prompts. The first verb should be in the present simple and the second verb in the present continuous.
- Find the English equivalents.. Translate into English.
- Werewe/you/they…? (Yes,we/you/theywere. No,we/you/they weren’t.)
- D Time expressions with prepositions
- A Write in the missing form of each of the irregular verbs below. Each verb can be used with the expressions on the right.
- Time expressions with prepositions
- Translate these word and word combinations into Ukrainian.
- Present perfect. Key vocabulary. S + have/has +V3. S + have/has + not+V3. W) + have/has + S + V3. Who has + V3?. B Present result of the past
- C Specific and non-specific time
- Specific and non specific time
- Complete the sentences with one of the verbs in the box, using just and the present perfect.
- Complete or continue these sentences using just and the present perfect.
- present perfect (2): ever, never, already, yet
- A Ever and never + present perfect or simple past
- C Finished and unfinished periods of time
- Ever + present perfect or simple past
- Finished and unfinished periods of time
- Complete the sentences, using the present perfect to make it clear that the periods of time have not finished yet.
- A Stative verbs + for and since
- E Completed actions over a period of time
- Some of the following sentences are right and some are wrong. Put a tick [√] next to the ones that are right, and correct the ones that are wrong.
- Look at the chart and read through this extract from an advertisement about the Emerging Markets Fund. Put the verbs into the present perfect tense.
- Using the notes, write about what has happened in the recent past.
- C Finished and unfinished activities
- Complete the sentences by putting the verbs into the present perfect continuous.
- Finished and unfinished activities
- Write short paragraphs answering the questions, giving details about the activities that have been going on.
- Review: simple past, present perfect
- and present perfect continuous
- C Present perfect simple+ for and since
- D Present perfect continuous. Exercise 1. Simple past vs present Perfect (1). Read the sentences and pay attention to the underlined verbs. Put a tick next to the ones that are right, and correct the ones that are wrong.. Exercise 2. Simple past vs Presen
- Present perfect and Present perfect Continuous
- Translate these words and word combinations into Ukrainian.
- Find the English equivalents.. Translate into English.
- B Points of the time in the past
B Irregular verbs
Many common verbs do not add -ed to the bare infinitive to form the simple past, but change in other ways. Look at these common examples:
I went to a very interesting presentation last week. (bare infinitive: go)
I rang her yesterday, but she wasn’tin the office. (bare infinitive: ring, be)
(A full list of common irregular verbs is in Appendix 2.)
C Completed actions
The simple past is used to talk about completed action in the past:
James Sainsbury set upa dairy in 1869. The business expandedand diversified, and eventually becamethe largest chain of supermarkets in Britain.
D Time expressions with prepositions
As in the example above, the simple past is often used with expressions that refer to points of time in the past. Look at the following common examples and at the prepositions that are used with them:
at 6 o’clock/1.15/the end of the year/Christmas
on Tuesday/15th May/the 21st/New Year’s Day
in January/1987/the 1980s/summer
no preposition yesterday/yesterday morning/last Monday/next April/a few days ago/the day before yesterday/when I was young
Practice
Exercise 1
Form
Use the verbs in the box to complete the sentences. Some of the sentences are positive statements, some are negative, and some are questions.
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1. Oh, I’m sorry to disturb you. I didn’t realize you had a visitor.
2. ______ you_______ economics when you were at university?
3. She_______ _______the job because the salary was too low.
4. Last week a number of customers ________ about slow service.
5. _______ you ______ the Acropolis when you were in Greece?
6. I am writing with reference to the order I ________with you last week.
7. At last year’s launch party, who _______ you ________ to do the catering?
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