1.

Fill in the gaps with using either the present simple or the present continuous:

– Andy sometimes __________________ (read) comics.

– We never __________________ (watch) TV in the morning.
– Listen! Sandy __________________ (sing) in the bathroom.
– My sister usually__________________ (help) in the kitchen.
– My mother __________________ (make) breakfast now.
– They often __________________ (clean) the bathroom.
– Look! The boys __________________ (come) home.
– Every day his grandfather __________________ (go) for a walk.
– I __________________ (chat) with my friend at the moment.
– Cats __________________ (eat) mice.

2. Complete using the past simple and the past continuous.

Last weekend Carmela ……………. (go) to the cinema to see "The Others". Carmela
………. (not / enjoy) it because it ………………….. (be) about ghosts and she is afraid
of them. When they ………………………… (go out) from the cinema something very
strange ………………… (happen) to them.
It ……………………. (rain) a lot and there ………………………. (be) any taxis on the
street, so they …………………. (have to) go home walking. They ……………………
(walk) in silence when they ……………………….. (hear) a noise behind them. Do you
know what happened next?

3. Put the following sentences into the passive voice.

William Shakespeare wrote a thousand plays

…………………………………………………………………………………………
……..
Picasso painted Guernica many years ago.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……..
Starvation kills hundreds of children all over the world.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……..
Tele 5 will buy several new soap operas for next year
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……..
MTV transmit music programmes six hours a day.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
 4. Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or present perfect simple).
William (tidy / already) up his room.
1. Caroline __________________(miss) the schoolbus yesterday.
2. I __________________(finish / just) my homework.
3. I cannot go out tonight. My grandparents __________________(come) to see us.
4. In 2004, the Olympic Summer Games __________________(take) place in Athens.
5. Joanna __________________(read / not) the book yet.
6. Collin __________________(not / go) on holiday last year.
7. I __________________(have / not) any problems so far.
8. They __________________(learn / not) the new words yet.
5. Make affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences using used to:

1) I / live in a flat when I was a

child.
[.]
6.
2) We / go to the beach every summer?
[.]

3) She / love eating chocolate, but now she hates

it
[.]

4) He / not / smoke
[.]

5) I / play tennis when I was at school

6. Complete the verbs in the correct tenses:

1. Walter _________________(to help) his mother in the garden if she reads him a story this
evening.
2. If it _________________(to rain), I will stay at home.
3. Our teacher will be happy if we_________________ (to learn) the poem by heart.
4. If they had enough money, they _________________(to buy) a new car.
5. We _________________(to pass) the exam if we studied harder.
6. If Pat _________________(to repair) his bike, he could go on a bicycle tour with us.
7. She would get 100 pounds if she _________________(to sell) this old shelf.
8. If I was/were you, I _________________(to invite) Jack to the party.
9. If the weather _________________(to be) fine, the children can walk to school.
7. Complete with your own ideas:

1. If I had a million euros...

2. If my mother spoke Italian...
3. If you work hard...
4. If you eat too much chocolate...
5. If you were taller...
 8. Complete the sentences with will and going to and the verbs in brackets:

1. Look out ! We ______________________ (crash).

2. I hope one day I ______________________(have) more free time.

3. This evening I ______________________(stay) at home and watch tv.

4. Perhaps in a few hundred years everybody ______________________(have) an easy life.

5. We______________________ (spend) the weekend in the mountains.

6. Do you think it ______________________(rain) tonight ?

7. If both parents have blue eyes, their children ______________________(have) blue eyes.

8. We ______________________(buy) a new car tomorrow.

9. He ______________________(study) abroad next year.

10. She hopes her baby ______________________(be) a girl.

9. Join the sentences using a relative clause:

1. He is a cheerful boy. Everybody loves him.

2. This is the house. Jack built it.

3. He is the person. I want to see him.

4. He is the offender. The police have arrested him.

5. My father hardly received any formal education. He went on to become a great leader.

6. He was my teacher. I will never forget him.

10. Use the reported speech:

1. He said, “I have got a toothache”.
2. Manu said, “I am very busy now”.
3. “Give me a cup of water,” he told her.
4. She said, “I am going to college.”
5. Raju said, “Gautam must go tomorrow”.
6. Geetha says, “My father is an Engineer.”
7. He said, “I have passed the physical test.”
8. She said to me, “You are my only friend.”
9. ‘I love you,’ he told me.
10. ‘Where are you going?’ James asked Mary.