TENSES SUPPLY THE CORRECT pot

TENSES

SUPPLY THE CORRECT VERB FORMS:

1/ I ( go ) ………………….to the cinema twice a month.

2/ Mr. Shaw, the director, ( work ) …………….with his cast in the studio at the moment.

3/ We ( see ) ……………………. that film before 1975.

4/ I ( not hear )………………….. about that actor yet.

5/ Yesterday actors and actresses ( work )……………….. in the rain the whole afternoon.

6/ Movies ( develop )…………………….. since the early 1950s.

7/ You (like) ………………documentary films?

8/ Robertor (live) …………in Hollywood for 8 years and (appear)…………… in 3 films.

9/ The children (watch)………………a Disney cartoon when I ( get )…………… back yesterday evening.

10/ When I (come)………………… in the room last night, this film ( begin )…………… a quarter before.

11/ Videos (compete) ………………….bitterly with the motion pictures nowadays.

12/ Young people often (imitate)………………… the dress fashions of movie stars.

13/ Among the films I (see) ……………….for 2 months (be)……………………“ Gone with the wind”.

14/ Ronald Regan (be)……………………. a Hollywood actor before he (become) ………. ………….. a

politician?

15/ What he (do)……………….. when you (see)………………….. him last Sunday?

16/ When he (return)………………. next month, the house (already build)……………....

17/ Most films (make/ show) …………………………..in the theatres.

18/ He (suffer)……………………. from the heart disease for years.

19/ I (feel) ………………….a little better after I (take)………………….. the medicine.

20/ Was Tom at the party when you ( arrive )………………….?

– No, he ( go ) …………………………home.

Paul Carrack is a musician and a singer. He (be) (21) …………………. In the music business for over 20

years. He (start) (22) …………………… playing professionally while he (be) (23) at school. He (travel)

(24) …………………… all over the world. He ( have ) (25) ………………… his first hit record in 1974.

So far he (make) (26) ……………………… a lot of records. Young people in America and Britain ( know)

(27) ……………………. His name and they never (forget) (28) ……………………….. his number one

song “ The Living Years”.

29/ She sometimes ( help) ………………………..her mother in the kitchen.

30/ He was reading the novel when I (call) …………………………him.

31/ Please be quite. I (try)………………………….. to concentrate.

32/ When I (finish)………………………. the book, I’ll lend it to you.

33/ This time next month I (sit)………………………… on a beach in Vung Tau.

34/ Unless they turn that radio off, I (go)…………………………… mad.

35/ I don’t know Carol’s husband, I ( never/ meet)…………………………… him.

36/ Why he (not/come)………………………… to my party last night?

37/ How many cigarettes you (smoke) …………………………a day?

38/ You (ever/see) …………………………a ghost?

Dennis Heal is a politician. He (go) (39) …………………. to Oxford University in 1950 and (become) (40)

………………… a member of Parliament for the labour Party in 1957. He (be) (41) ………………… a MP

since then. He (write) (42) ………………….. three story books including his autobiography. He is married

to the artist. Anna Heal, and they (have) (43) …………………… two children. They (live) ( 44)

…………………… in Oxford for 15 years, then (move) (45) …………………… to London in 1970. They

now (live) (46) ……………………. In Cadogan Square in central London.

47/ Last year I (stay) ……………………. In London for six months. While I (stay)

…………………….there, I (meet) ……………………. John for the first time.

48/ I (go) ………………….to London tomorrow because my uncle (stay) ……………… there for a few

days and he (want) ……………… to see me.

49/ If you (not start)…………………… getting ready at once, I’m afraid we (miss) …………………… the

first item on the programme.

50/ Tomorrow I (meet) an old friend who just (come) ………………….. back from Africa.