ASYNCHRONOUS: 40 MINUTES

GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES
TASK 2: MIXED TENSES

For each of the following sentences, state the tense and function of the verbs in
bold. Write your answers in the columns provided. An example is given.

No Sentence Tense Function

0 Example: Simple To explain factual

The people in our lives do a lot present information
to keep our lives running
smoothly.

1 If you keep up with activities future perfect Used for actions which
continuous tense will be in progress
you have been mastering, it’ll
over a period of time that
put pressure on your attitude will end in the future
toward yourself to adjust to
match.

2 A public announcement has present perfect To show an action that

tense has just been
been made on vaccine priorities
completed/concluded, in
at some point in the next week. the passive form
3 Officials said seven workers at past perfect To refer to a past action
tense that happened earlier than
a poultry plant in the south of
another action in the past,
the country had been infected in the passive form
following an outbreak there in
December.

4 Other strains of flu future perfect To talk about actions that

tense will be completed by a
occasionally infect humans
certain future time
and possibly will have led to
deaths.

5 We have been continually Present perfect To talk about a finished

continuous tense activity in the recent past.
facing great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as
insoluble problems.