Practicing Verb Tenses and Auxiliaries.

STARTER

1. Each question has a word missing. Write it in.

come
1) Where do you۷from? 5) Which foreign countries have you been?

2) When and where you born? 6) What you do yesterday evening?

3) You live in house or a flat? 7) What are you going do after this lesson?

4) Why you studying English?

2. Ask and answer the questions with a partner.

Where do you come from? Slovakia

3. Talk about your partner.

Zuzana is from Slovakia. She’s studying English because...

PRACTICE 1
You’re so wrong!

1. Correct the information in the sentences.

1) The Pope lives in Madrid.

He doesn’t live in Madrid!. He lives in Rome! (Rome)

2) Shakespeare didn’t write poems.

You’re wrong! He wrote hundreds of poems. (hundreds of poems)

3) Vegetarians eat meat. (Vegetables and sometimes fish)

4) The Internet doesn’t provide much information. (lots)

5) The world is getting colder. (hotter)

6) Princess Diane was traveling by plane when she died. (by car)

7) England has never won the World Cup. (just once in 1966)

8) The 2008 Olympics were held in Tokyo, Japan. (Beijing, China)

‘s = is or has?

2. Is ‘s in these sentences the auxiliary is or has

1) Who’s making that noise? is

2) She’s done really well.
3) Champagne’s made in France.
4) Who’s been to America?
5) He’s leaving early.
6) What’s produced in your Country?
Talking about you.

3. Complete the questions with the correct auxiliary verb and name the tense.

1) What time______ you usually get up on Sundays?

2) What time ______ you get up this morning?
3) How long _______ it usually take you to get from home to school?
4) Who _______ sitting next to you? What ______ he / she wearing?
5) How long _______ you known the teacher?
6) What _______ you doing when your teacher came into the room?
7) What _________ (not) you like doing in English lessons?
8) Which school subjects _________ (not) you like when you were younger?
9) Which other foreign languages _________ you studied?
10. What presents _________ you given on your last birthday?

PRACTICE 2

1. Match the columns A. B and C

A B C
1) Did you hear that noise? No, I haven’t. They didn’t have my size.

2) Are you doing anything tonight? No, I’m not I think it was thunder.

3) Have you seen my mobile anywhere? Yes, It is. Thank goodness!

4) Did you get those shoes you liked? Yes, I did. Do you want to come round?

5) Is it time for a break? No, I didn’t. Have you lost it again?

2. There’s one mistake in each sentence. Find it and correct it.

1) Rae comes from Canada and he speak French and English.

2) Which subjects Susan is studying this semester?

3) ‘Do you like football?’ – ‘Yes, I like.’

4) Did you watched the match last night?

5) What does your parents do at the weekend?

6) I think is going to rain.

7) What was you talking about?

8) I don’t think John’s arrive yet.