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1. Complete with present simple or present continuous: a) I _____________ (play) football while my mum __________ (watch) TV.

b) My parents _____________ (travel) to Japan every summer. c) She _____________________ (not want) to go to the cinema because she ________________ (watch) a film on TV. d) We ______________ (spend) a lot of money and we ___________________ (not think) in our holidays next week. We will need it! e) My grandparents ______________ (arrive) tomorrow. 2. Complete with past simple or past continuous: a) I _________________ (wear) a black t-shirt yesterday. b) She _________________ (do) her homework when her father ________ (arrive). c) They _________________ (play) rugby on Thursday and they __________ (lose) the match. d) When he _____________ (work) as a journalist he ______________ (meet) interesting people and ___________________ (travel) a lot. e) They _________________- (listen) to music while they _________________________ (sunbath). 3. Complete with future or future continuous: a) I ______________ (not learn) Japanese the next year, I still have to learn German. b) At this time tomorrow, I ____________________ (travel) to Rome. c) Arthur __________(check) his email tomorrow morning. d) She __________________ (study) Maths on Thursday from 15:00 to 17:30. 4. Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous? a) I am not going to the cinema with them because I ___________ (already see) the film. b) Broadway musicals _____________________ (always be) famous around the world. c) This cinema _________________ (show) the same film all summer. d) Im going to bed. I ______________ (work) for more than 12 hours. 5. Past perfect simple or past perfect continuous? a) He _______________ (sleep) all the afternoon and he didnt study. b) We ______________ (worked) all the night before the show. c) She ___________________ (not sleep) before the wedding. d) They ____________________(Travel) to another country before they went to France. e) The actor ______________ (grow) a beard before appearing in that film. f) I ___________ (be) to a concert until I went to the Eminem concert. 6. Complete with the correct modal verb: a) He ______________ to play de drums and the guitar, he has learnt now. b) Javier Bardem ____________ play the main character (this year). c) You ______________ improve your pronunciation to sound like a native. d) He ______________ (come) tomorrow. 7. Complete the sentences using the words listed below. can could have to must might should

a. Ted's flight from Amsterdam took more than 11 hours. He be exhausted after such a long flight. He prefer to stay in tonight and get some rest. b. If you want to get a better feeling for how the city is laid out, you walk downtown and explore the waterfront. c. Hiking the trail to the peak be dangerous if you are not well prepared for dramatic weather changes. You research the route a little more before you attempt the ascent. d. When you have a small child in the house, you leave small objects lying around. Such objects be swallowed, causing serious injury or even death. e. Dave: you hold your breath for more than a minute? Nathan: No, I can't. f. Jenny's engagement ring is enormous! It have cost a fortune. g. Please make sure to water my plants while I am gone. If they don't get enough water, they die. h. I speak Arabic fluently when I was a child and we lived in Egypt. But after we moved back to Canada, I had very little exposure to the language and forgot almost everything I knew as a child. Now, I just say a few things in the language. i. The book is optional. My professor said we read it if we needed extra credit. But we read it if we don't want to. j. Leo: Where is the spatula? It be in this drawer but it's not here. Nancy: I just did a load of dishes last night and they're still in the dish washer. It be in there. That's the only other place it be. 8. Change the sentences into reported speech. a) Students go to class everyday. b)Students went to class everyday. c) Students will go to class everyday. e) Students are going to class everyday. f) Students were going to class everyday. g) Students have gone to class everyday. h) Students have been going to class everyday. i) Students had gone to class everyday. j) Students had been going to class everyday.

k) Do students go to class everyday? l) Is Jenny American? He asked me. m) Where is the swimming pool? The girl asked. 9. Relative pronouns. Complete the gaps and write the commas if necessary. a) Mary _____ you told me about might be a genius. b) I don't remember the date ______ she was born c) Heathrow Airport _________ is in London receives thousands of passengers every day. d) "It's a mystery ______the experts cannot explain. e) The film ________is based on a novel is a great success. f) This is the man _________identity can't be established g) Emma _________ was born in Canada lived in Germany all her life h) The police can arrest anyone ____________ commits a crime i) The boy spoke with an accent ___________ sounded British 10. Change the following sentences into the passive. a) Doctors help patients b) Doctors are helping patients c) Doctors helped patients d) Doctors will help patients e) Doctors have helped patients f) Doctors should help patients g) Doctors were helping patients h) Doctors had helped patients i) Doctors have to help patients j) Doctors are going to help patients k)Several channels broadcasted Mr. Bean. l) They will overcome any difficult situation. m) New discoveries are giving home to sick people. n)The teacher gave me the marks. o)They are going to translate the film.

p) They made the story into a film 11. Use the correct conditional. a) b) c) d) e) f) g) If you ________ (give) me your mobile number, I ________(send) you an SMS If you _______ (press) the button, the computer _________ (switch on) If he had told a good joke, people __________________ (laugh) You ____________ on a date with Ann if you ________ (ask) her If you __________ (not work (past)) so hard, you __________ more. You _________ have met my sister if you ___________ (go) to the club. If I ___________(Finish past) all my work, I _____________ (go out) with them

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