The Past tenses. - прошедшие времена

Exercise 4. Поставьте глагол в скобках в Present Perfect Continuous.

Exercise 2. Поставьте глагол в скобках в Present Continuous, где это возможно.

Exercise 1. Поставьте глагол в скобках в Present Simple Tense и образуйте отрицательное и вопросительное предложения.

1. Fishermen often (to tell) us about their catches. 2. Their children (to go) to a private school. 3. Little Amanda (to collect) all sorts of toy-pigs. 4. Anything that he (to say) (to be) worth listening to. 5. We usually (to spend) our holidays in the village. 6. My English friend (to live) in a nice house that (to stand) on a hill that (to overlook) lake Winter-mere which (to be)) in the Lake District. 7. My sister (to have) a good appetite and she always (to eat) much. 8. Let’s go outside. It (to be) very hot in the house.

Pollution (to hang) like a brown cloud over New York today. Dirt and smoke (to pour) from cars and factories. Pollution (to spoil) the air we breath, and it (to harm) our health.

New York (to have) a big problem. The city (to have) dirty air. The air (to smell) bad. Pollution (to be) a health problem, too, because it (to hurt) people’s lungs.

The man (to think) that pollution (to be) dangerous. He (not to like) the air, so he (not to breath) it. He (to wear) a gas mask. He (to smell) a flower, and it (to smell) good, but he (not to know) it.

He (to listen) for birds, but he (not to hear) any. He (to look) for beauty, but he (not to see) any.

Exercise 3. Поставьте глагол в скобках в Present Perfect.

1. I don’t know this girl, I never (to meet) her before. 2. “Where is mother?” – “She just (to go) out”. 3. Don’t worry about the letter I (to post) it already. 4. I (to be) in London several times. 5. I can’t find my umbrella, I think, somebody (to take) it by mistake. 6. “Do you know where they (to go)?” – “No, they (to sell) their house and (not to leave) their new address.” 7. I want to see you. I (not to see) you for ages. 8. “How long you (to know) her?” – I (to know) her for 10 years. 9. She (to live) here all her life. 10. Do you know the girl who just (to leave) the shop?

1. I (to work) on this problem for two months. 2. She (to sleep) all this time. 3. You (to talk) this nonsense all day long. 4. How long you (to lie) in the sun today? 5. You (to work) too hard lately. 6. How long you (to stand) in this cold? 7. I (to think) of your aunt’s proposal since we last met. 8. Ann (to look) for a job for three months already. 9. How long you (to live) in this city? 10. My brother (to work) in this firm since 2003.

PAST SIMPLE	PAST CONTINUOUS(Progressive)	PAST PERFECT	PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS(Progressive)
V^2^ф; did … V ^1^Ф	was/were+ V-ing	had + V^3^ф(-ed)	had been + V-ing
1. Для выражения действий в прошлом, когда указано время. (yesterday, last week, a week ago, in 2010.) e.g. I met him yesterday.   2.Когда о времени спрашивается. e.g. When did you see him?   3..Для регулярно повторяющихся действий в прошлом. e.g. He made an entry in his diary every day.	1. для выражения действия в прошлом, которое продолжалось в течение определенного периода времени e.g. He was watching TV the whole evening. 2. 2.для выражения действия, протекающего в течение определенного момента времени в прошлом. e.g. At 8 o`clock he was having a breakfast. 3.момент времени определяется другим действием в прошлом, выраженном глаголом в past simple или обстоятельственными словами the whole evening, all summer, etc. e.g. When I returned she was sleeping.	1. для выражения действия, закончившегося к определенному моменту времени в прошлом. e.g. By that time I had already written the letter. Момент времени может быть выражен обстоятельством времени: by the end of the year, by that time, by 5 o`clock, by Saturday.   2. для выражения действия, которое предшествовало другому действию, выраженному глаголом в past indefinite e.g. We had finished our work when he came. He told me he had had his dinner at 6 o`clock that day.	1.для выражения длительного действия, которое началось давно и продолжалось до какого-то момента времени в прошлом. Можно заменить past perfect. e.g. It was now 6 and he was tired because he had been working (had worked) since dawn. She had been preparing a report for an hour when she found very important information.

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