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VIII. Write a letter to your friend about your college life. Grammar exercises

  1. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

    1. We (to go) to school every day.

    2. Nick (to do) his homework by seven o’clock yesterday.

    3. You (to help) your father tomorrow?

    4. We (to bring) a lot of berries from the wood. Now we shall make jam.

    5. Look! Jane (to swim) across the river.

    6. What you (to do) at six o’clock yesterday?

    7. You ever (to see) the Pyramids?

    8. I (to go) to the Caucasus two years ago.

    9. When Nick (to come) home yesterday, his mother (to return) and (to cook) dinner in the kitchen.

    10. When I (to go) to school yesterday, I suddenly (to remember) that I (to forget) to take my English exercise-book.

    11. Yesterday grandfather (to tell) us how he (to work) at the factory during the war.

  1. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

    1. I always (to come) to school at a quarter to nine.

    2. Yesterday I (to come) to school at ten minutes to nine.

    3. Tomorrow Nick (not to go) to the cinema this week because he 9to go) to the cinema yesterday. He already (to be) to the cinema this week. Look! He (to cry).

    4. What your brother (to do) now?

    5. My friend (to like) pies. He (to eat) pies every day. When I (to meet) him in the street yesterday, he (to eat) a pie. He (to tell) me that he (to buy) that pie at the corner of the street. Look at my friend now! He (to eat) a pie again.

  1. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

    1. When you (to come) to see us? – I (to come) tomorrow if I (not to be) busy.

    2. I (not to like) apples.

    3. He (to come) home at five o’clock yesterday.

    4. I (to ring0 you up as soon as I (to come) home tomorrow.

    5. I (to show) you my work if you (to like).

    6. He (to come) home by six o’clock yesterday.

    7. Pete certainly 9to help) you with your English if you 9to ask) him.

    8. This little boy never (to see) a crocodile.

    9. Send me a telegram as soon as you (to arrive).

    10. Lets go for a walk. The rain 9to stop) and the sun (to shine).

    11. I always (to get ) up at eight o’clock, but tomorrow I (to get) up a little later.

    12. What you (to read) now? – I (to read) Toms book. I (to be) in a hurry. Tom soon (to come), and I (to want) to finish reading the book before he (to come).

    13. When I (to come) home yesterday, my brother (to sleep).

  1. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

    1. Hello! Where you (to go)? – Nowhere in particular. I just (to take) a walk.

    2. Our students (to do) all kinds of exercises and now they (to be) sure that they (to know) this rule well. They (to hope) they to make) no mistakes in the test paper.

    3. The expedition (to cover) hundreds of kilometers, but they still (to be) far from their destination.

    4. You (to go to Great Britain next year?

    5. Yesterday Nick (to say) that he (to read) much during his summer vacation.

    6. At the age of twenty my father (to combine) work and study.

    7. A great number of students (to study)in the reading room when I (to enter) it last night.

    8. The storm (to rage) the whole night, and the sailors (to try) to do their best to save the ship.

    9. Mikes friends could hardly recognize him as he (to change) greatly after his expedition to the Antarctic.

    10. When I (to enter) the hall, the students (to listen) to a very interesting lecture in history.

  1. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

It was eight o’clock in the morning and time for me to go to work. I (to look) out of the window. It (to rain) hard. “You (to get) wet through if you (to go ) out now,” said my mother. “No, I…,” I answered, “I (to take) an umbrella.” We (to have) five umbrellas in the house, but when I (to want) to take one, I (to find) that there (to be) not one that I could use: they all (to be) torn or broken. So I (to take) them all and (to carry) them to the umbrella maker, saying that I would call for the umbrellas on my way home in the evening. When I (to go) to have lunch in the afternoon, it still (to rain) very hard. I (to go) to the nearest café, and (to sit) down at the table. A few minutes later a young woman (to come) in and (to sit) down at the same table with me. When I (to finish) my lunch and (to be) ready to leave, I absentmindedly (to take) her umbrella and (to start) for the exit. She (to stop) me saying that I (to take) her umbrella. I (to return) the umbrella with many apologies. In the evening I (to go) to the umbrella maker, (to take) my five umbrellas and (to get) on the tram to go home. It so happened that the woman I (to meet) at the café (to the café (to ride) in the same tram. When she (to see) me with my five umbrellas, she (to say): “You (to have) a successful day today, (to have not) you?”