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Verb Tenses. 1. Put The Verbs in Brackets in The PRESENT SIMPLE or The PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Verb Tenses. 1. Put The Verbs in Brackets in The PRESENT SIMPLE or The PRESENT CONTINUOUS
1. Put the verbs in brackets in the PRESENT SIMPLE or the PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Liz
Riz ................................... (work) for a year on a Greenpeace ship in the
Mediterranean.
They
..........................................
(check)
the
pollution
levels.
Liz ................................. (write) a letter to her mother.
Dear Mum,
,,, I .................................. ( write) this letter in my cabin. The seas quite rough at
the
moment
and
I
.................................
(find)
it
difficult
to
write!
I ........................................... (usually/get) about two hours free time a day and
I ......................................... (often/write) letters or ................................... (read) a book
( or I
sometimes ....................................... (not/do) anything at all I just ...............................
(sleep)!) I ......................... (read) a book about the history of Greenpeace at the moment.
Greenpeace
workers .................................... (come) from all over the world but,
fortunately, everybody on this ship ................................... (speak) English.
At the moment I ................................... (work) with Thor Svensen, a Norwegian
marine
biologist.
We
......................................
(take)
water
samples
and ..................................... (analyse) them. Thor ................................ (work) at Oslo
University but he .....................................(work) for Greenpeace for a year.
I ............................... (think) this is the best job Ive ever had.
I .................................. (want) to do it for another year. I ............................... (like) the
people on the ship and I ................................. (know) we .............................. (do) a useful
job. I ............................... (love) life at sea. I ......................................... (look) really
healthy. The ship .................................. (have) very little fresh water and
I ..................................... (be) extravagant at the moment washing three times a day! Id
like a shower, but the ship .................................. (not/have) showers. But
I ................................... (have) a great time. Ill finish my letter now because
I ............................... (not/feel) well. The ship .................................. (roll) a lot. In fact,
I .................................. (feel) a bit sick. I ................................... (think) of you and
I ............................ (miss) you a lot.
2. Put the verbs in this dialogue in the PAST SIMPLE or the PAST CONTINUOUS
A detective is interviewing Mrs. Garfield about a bank robbery.
Detective: What ................................................... (you/do) at 10.30, at the time of the
robbery?
Mrs. Garfield: I ...................................... (walk) along king Street.
D: .................................. (you/go) to the bank?
Mrs. G.: No, I ......................... I .................................... (go) to the post office.
There ...................................... (be) a lot of other people in the street.
They ................................................ (just/do) their shopping.
D: What .......................................................... (the robbers/wear)?
Mrs. G: They ............................................ (wear) jeans and dark sweaters.
D: What ................................................. (you/do) when you .................................. (see)
them?
Mrs. G.: I ................................................. (stand) outside the post office.
I ..................................... (look) in my bag for my letters when I ...................................
(hear) a shout. Then I ................................. (see) them run out of the bank.
D: And what ................................................. (you/do) when you ....................................
(see) them?
Mrs. G: I .......................................... (just/stop) . I ............................................. (not/try)
to do anything because one of them .................................................... (carry) a gun.
b: Never
mind. It ........................................
you ...................................... (have) a great time.
a: OK, then. Thanks very much.
(be)
big
party
and
Im
sure