1. Complete the sentences. Put the verbs into the present simple(e.g.

do) or present
continuous (e.g. I am doing), positive or negative.
1.A:Have some chocolate. B: No ,thank you. I ______________do not like chocolate (like
chocolate)
2.A:Let's have lunch in the garden. B:No, we can't. It____is raining
________________________(rain)
3.What_is Pam doing?(do) B:Pam?She is a nurse.
4.Tony isnt working at the moment. He is on holiday. (work)
5.Why are you smiling ? -Because I am happy. (smile)
6.Sandra and her husband are vegetarian. They do not eat meat.(eat meat)
7.A:What time are you getting up ?B:Me ?About 7 am usually. (get up)
8.How do you go to work? -I usually catch a bus. (go to work)
9.A:I think Shaun and David are asleep. B: mmm. Turn the TV off. They _arent watching it
(watch it)
10.John and I want to go to Greece for our holidays, so we are learning Greek (learn Greek)

2. Put the verbs in the present perfect or the past simple.

Here is the six o'clock news from ITC, on Monday the 25th April. Our reporter in Nepal has
telephone (telephone) us ten minutes ago and says _(say) that Jane Tomkins and her partner, are
on the top of the world today. They have reach _(reach) the top of Mount Everest half hour ago.
Our reporter spoke to another climber on the expedition.
Reporter:Are Jane and Ann still on the top of Mount Everst?
Climber: No, they start(start) their return journey
Reporter:How long_____________they_have spend_________(spend) up there?
Climber:About ten minutes. They__had toke________________ (take) some photographs of
each other.
Reporter:Are they in good health?
Climber: Well, they are both tired , but they are fine. But there is one problem: the weather _has
change(change). There is more cloud and the wind is quite strong.
Last night, Manchester United__had won_______________(win) the football league
championship. The team ___has win____________(win) the championship three times now- the
first time _____had been _____________ (be) in 1986. In their final game yesterday, Bryan
Riggs __________had scored_______(score) the winning goal. Riggs __has
been___________(be) with the team since he __left _______________(leave ) school.
The President of Volponia, Madame Fernoff, ________arrived ______________(arrive)in
Britain last night. Madame Fern off ____been__________(be ) President since 1985. She said
she was very happy to be in Britain.
At yesterdays meeting of European finance ministers, Jack Delaney, the Irish Finance Minister,
________seed ______(say), I am going to leave my job soon. I _________worked

_________(work) very hard and I want to spend more time with my family. Mr Delaney
______been________(be) Irish Finance Minister for 5 years.

6.Rewrite the sentences into the Passive voice

1.She waters the flowers every day.
2.They make shoes in this factory.
3.They produce Fiat in Italy.
4.The police caught the robber.
5.Hemingway wrote a lot of novels.

2.Their making shoes in that factory.

3.Their producing Fiat in Italy.
4. the robber was caught by the police.
5. Hemingway had wrote a lot of novels.