Joe Richards finished school when he was 18, and then his father said to him, ‘You’ve passed

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your examinations now, Joe, and you got good marks in them. Now go and get some good
work.
Past) (Simple Past) (Simple Present Tense)
They’re looking for clever people at the bank in the town. The clerks there get quite a lot of
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money now.’
A few days later, Joe went to the bank and asked for work there. A man took him into a small
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room and gave him some questions on a piece of paper. Joe wrote his answers on the paper,
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and then he gave them to the man.
(Simple Past)
The man looked at them for a few minutes, and then he took a pen and said to Joe, ‘Your
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birthday was on the 12th of June, Mr. Richards?’
(Simple Past)
‘Yes, sir, ‘Joe said.
(Simple Past)
‘What year?’ the man asked.
(Simple Past)
‘Oh, every year, sir, ‘Joe said.
(Simple Past)
Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
A
(Simple Present)
Write T or F in the boxes.
(Simple Present)
1. Joe Richards was seventeen years old.
(Simple Past)
2. Joe Richards passed his examinations.
(Simple Past)
3. Joe passed his examinations at the university.
(Simple Past)
4. Joe wanted to work in a bank.
(Simple Past)
5. Joe was born on the 12th of June.
(Simple Past)
6. Joe did not give the right answer.
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B Answer these question.
(Present Continuous) 4. What did a man do then?
1. What did Joe’s father (Simple Past)
say when Joe finished 5. What did the man asked
school? Joe? (Simple Past)
(Simple Past) 6. What did Joe say?
2. Where did Joe go a few (Simple Past)
days later? 7. What did the man ask?
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3. What did he want? 8. And what did Joe say?
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C Write these. Write the correct words. Do not write the wrong ones.
(Simple Present)
1. Joe (passed/ has passed) them examination last week.
(Simple Past)
2. He (passed/has passed) them last July.
(Simple Past)
3. He (got/ has got) good marks in them.
(Simple Past)
4. Now Joe (went/ has gone) to the bank.
(Simple Past)
5. He (went/ has gone) there at 11o’clock.
(Simple Past)
6. A man (gave/ has given) him a piece of paper a few minutes ago.
(Simple Past)
7. Joe (gave/ has given) his answer to the man now.
(Simple Past)
8. He (gave / has given) them to him a few second ago.
(Simple Past)
9. (Did/ Has) the man read them? No, he is going to read them now.
(Simple Past)
Fred works in a factory. He does not have a wife, and he gets quite a lot of money every week.
(Present Continuous) (Present Continuous) (Present Continuous)
He loved cars, and has a new one every year. He likes driving fast, and he always buys small,
(Simple Past) (Present Continuous) (Present Continuous) (Present Continuous)
fast, red cars. He sometime takes his mother out in them, and then she always says, ‘But, Fred
(Present Continuous) (Present Continuous)
why do you drive these cars? We’re almost sitting on the road!’
(Present Continuous) (Simple Present)
Then Fred laughs and is happy. He likes being very near the road.
(Simple Present) (Present Continuous)
Fred is very tall and very fat.
(Present Continuous)
Last week he came out of a shop and went to his car. There was a small boy near it. He was
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looking at the beautiful red car. Then he looked up and saw Fred.
(Simple Past) (Simple Past)
‘How do you get into that small car?’ he asked him.
(Simple Past)
Fred laughed and said, ‘I don’t get into it. I put it on.’
(Simple Past)
A Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
(Simple Present)
Write T or F in the boxes.
(Simple Present)
1. Fred has a wife.
(Present Continuous Tense)
2. Fred is poor man.
(Present Continuous Tense)
3. Fred buys a new car every year.
(Present Continuous Tense)
4. Fred’s mother does not like his car.
(Present Continuous Tense)
5. A small girl was looking at Fred’s cars.
(Simple Past)
6. Fred gets into his car easily.
(Present Continuous Tense)
B Answer these question.
(Simple Present)
1. Where does Fred work? (Present Continuous)
 2. What cars does he like?
(Simple Present)
3. Who goes out in them with him sometimes?
(Simple Present)
4. What does she always say?
5. (Simple Present)
6. What does Fred do then?
7. (Simple Present)
8. Is Fred a big man, or a small man?
(Simple Present)
9. What did a small boy ask him last week?
(Simple Past)
10.What did Fred say?
(Simple Past)
C Opposites. Put one word in each empty place.
(Simple Present)
1. Fred does not get very_____ money: he gets a lot.
(Simple Present)
2. He does not_____ cars: he loves them.
(Simple Present)
3. He does not drive_____: he drives fast.
(Simple Present)
4. He does not buy _____ cars: he buys small ones.
(Simple Present)
5. He does not like sitting very_____ from the road: he likes sitting very near it.
(Simple Present)
6. Fred is not a _____, ______ man: he is a tall, fat man.
(Simple Present)
7. His car is not_____: it is beautiful.
(Simple Present)

Mr. and Mrs. Yates had one daughter. Her name was Carol, and she was nineteen years old.
(Simple Past) (Simple Past) (Simple Past)
Carol lived with her parents and worked in an office. She had some friends, but she did not like
(Simple Past) (Simple Past)
any of the boys very much.
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Then she met a very nice young man. His name was Georg Watts, and he worked in a bank
near
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her office. They went out together quite a lot, and he came to Carol’s parents’ house twice,
and
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then last week Carol went to her father and said, ‘I’m going to marry Georg Watts, Daddy. He
(Simple Past) (Future Going to)
was here yesterday.’ (Simple Past)
‘Oh, yes,’ her father said. ‘He’s a nice boy-but has he got any money?’
(Simple Past) (Present Continuous)
‘Oh men! All of you are the same,’ the daughter answer angrily. ‘I met George on the first of
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June and on the second he said to me, “Has your father got any money?”
(Simple Present Tense)
Miss Williams was a teacher, and there were thirty small children in her class. They were nice
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children, and Miss. Williams liked all of them, but they often lost clothes. It was winter, and
the
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weather was very cold. The children’s mothers always sent them to school with warm coats
and
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hats and gloves. The children came into the classroom in the morning and took off their coats
(Simple Past)
and hats and gloves. They put their coats and hats on hooks on the wall, and they put their
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gloves in the pockets of their coats.

Last Tuesday Miss Williams found two small blue gloves on the floor in the evening, and in the
(Simple Past)
morning she said to the children, ‘Whose gloves are these?’, but no one answered.
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Then she looked at Dick. ‘Haven’t you got blue gloves, Dick?’ she asked him.
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‘Yes, miss,’ he answered, ‘but those can’t be mine. I’ve lost mine.’
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