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REVISION: TENSES

A) Fill in the right tense, all active voice.

1. My family have ___________________ (buy) some land in southern France recently. They
___________________ (build) a summer house there at the moment.

2. Andy and Mary ___________________ (go) to a concert tomorrow night. They

____________________________ (look forward to) it the whole week.

3. Jonathon ___________________ (watch) the news on TV every day and it ___________________

(help) him with his English.

4. My car ___________________ (break) down when I ___________________ (drive) home from

work. I ________________________ (fix) it if I ___________________ (know) what was wrong. But I
didn’t so ___________________ (have) to take it to the garage.

5. When he ___________________ (found) Microsoft, Bill Gates was only 20 years old. He
___________________________ (already write) his first computer programme six years earlier.

6. I ________________________ (just see) the film “The Da Vinci Code”. – ___________________

(you see) it too? – No, I ___________________ (not have) but I ___________________ (read) the
book.

7. My sister ___________________ (fly) home from London today. Her flight ___________________
(arrive) in an hour so I ___________________ (leave) for the airport right now to get there in time.

8. While he ___________________ (wait) for the bus there ___________________ (be) a robbery at
the bank. After the robbers ___________________ (go) away the police ___________________
(come) but they ___________________ (not can) to catch them.

9. I ___________________ (use) to ski when I was at the university but I ___________________

(break) a leg five years ago and since then I ___________________ (not ski) any more.

B) Complete these conditional clauses: type 1 – 2 -3?

1. I _____________________ (not to watch) the film adaptation on TV, if I ________________

(already, to read) the book.

2. If the parents _______________________ (to buy) the dog after all, their children
_________________ (to be) very happy. That’s their biggest dream.

3) Ice ____________________ (to melt) if you ___________________(to heat) it.

4) He __________________________ (to get) higher marks on the exam if _____________________
(to study) harder. His parents and teachers weren’t pleased at all!

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C) Build conditional clauses with these words, according to meaning that is indicated between
brackets. (Of course you can add more words you need.)
1) if - you - to see - car accident - help these people immediately (probable)

2) mum - not stop smoking - unless the doctor - to tell (impossible)

3) if - I - to be – a politician - I - to reduce - the taxes (improbable)

4) if - you - to call 911 - the rescue team - to come over as soon as possible (probable)

5) unless – I - to put on woolen socks in winter - I - always - to have cold feet (personal truth)

D) Complete the info about remarkable inventions with the right past tense in the passive voice.
1.The first pair of these ______________________________(make) in 1923. The cloth
___________________ (buy) from Levi’s shop. Color blue ________________ (choose) to make
them. They ___________________________________ (design) for workmen exclusively. Later Levi
Strauss designed some pairs for women. The ones made by Calvin Klein earned him U$S 12.5 milllion
a year.

2. In 1879, at Bayer Company, this medicine _________________________________ (invent) by Felix

Hofman. Felix’s father ___________________________ (give) one to treat his arthritis. By 1940 it
became the world’s best known painkiller and it ___________________________________ (take) to
the Moon by the astronauts in 1959.

F) Fill in the right tense expressing the future.

1. The train __________ (to arrive) at 12:30.

2. A: “We __________ (to have) dinner at a seaside restaurant on Sunday.” B: “But it __________(to
snow) in Brighton tomorrow afternoon!”

3. On Friday at 8 o’clock I __________ (to meet) my friend.

4. Paul __________ (to fly) to London on Monday morning.

5. Wait! I __________ (to drive) you to the station.

6. The English lesson __________ (to start) at 8:45. We ___________________(not to be) in time
with this bus strike. Can anyone warn the school, please?