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Tenses, Passives and Modals




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Revision of Tenses, Passives and Modals A2+

TENSES 
Present simple&continuous
  1. You can borrow my dictionary. I it at the moment
  2. We (have) a party next Saturday. to come?
  3. Hurry! The bus and I to miss it
  4. What ? –I for my exams next week
  5. He normally TV in the afternoon, but today he a book

Past simple&continuous& perfect

  1. It to rain when I home
  2. We yesterday because it
  3. The woman was a stranger to me. I her before
  4. I didn’t recognise Frank because he a lot
  5. Tom a photograph of us while we

Present perfect & past simple

  1. I Tom in the park
  2. by plane?-Yes, I . Last year I to Egypt
  3. How long in Oxford? – He here since 1999

Future tenses: will, be going to, present continuous

  1. I a sandwich because I’m hungry
  2. It’s too late to phone now. I them tomorrow
  3. We two exams next week, so this afternoon I

PASSIVE

  1. They didn’t offer Anne the job
  2. They will ask you a lot of questions at the interview
  3. They should repair this road
  4. They brought Helen a present from America
  5. They make these cars in Germany
  6. A tree was lying across the road. It down by the storm
  7. Lots of thing on buses everyday
  8. I think the match by Manchester United; they are playing really well
  9. Your watch , we're sorry.
  10. Ten people by the police last night

CHOOSE THE CORECT MODAL VERB

  1. If you have a headache, you  take an aspirin
  2. I can do it myself. You  help me if you are busy.
  3. They  have a lot of money: they have 4 cars and one of them is a Porsche
  4. I’ve got an important exam and I  study
  5. In many schools you  wear a uniform
  6. The thieves  enter the house through an open window
  7. You  use my computer under any circumstance
  8. That boy   be James; James went to London yesterday.
  9.  go to the party, but I'm not sure yet
  10.  read your newspaper, please?