Grammar practice

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Grammar practice – standard Unit 1
Tense review
1 Complete the sentences using the present simple, present
continuous or imperative form of the verbs in the box.
close not go move see try not work
1 I my grandparents in
Cantabria every year.
2 the window! It’s cold!
3 We house at the moment.
4 I to get to Manaus. Is there
another flight?
5 near the water! You might fall
in!
2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs
in brackets.
1 I (wait) here for two hours!
2 They (look) at travel books
about Brazil all morning.
5 Carol (not ever live) on her
own.
3 Complete the text using the past simple, past continuous or
past perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.
A few years ago I 1 (be) lucky enough to
visit Australia with my girlfriend. We 2 (hear)
that it was easy to hire a camper van so we
3 (decide) to drive up the east coast to
Queensland to see the Great Barrier Reef. While we
4 (travel), we 5 (live) in the
van and 6 (cook) on the beach. It was great
fun! However, one weekend we 7 (lose) our
credit cards and had no money until the banks opened
again. We 8 (park) the van and went to the
beach to discuss what we could do. Unfortunately, while
we 9 (sit) on the beach, the police
10 (take) away our van because it was
illegally parked! So we had no money and nowhere to live
until Monday morning!
4 Complete the sentences with the correct future form of the
verbs in brackets.
1 This time next week, we (live)
in the new house!
2 I (meet) Sam and John later
for coffee.
3 In 20 years’time, everybody
(have) electric cars.
4 That looks heavy. I (help) you.
5 By the end of this year, she
(travel) by plane 25 times.
5 Complete the text with the correct form of verbs from the
box.
find go happen have like say spend start
travel visit
They 1 the best thing about travel is the
journey rather than the arrival. But I 2 never
travelling before I 3 Indonesia.
I 4 the delays and waiting in airports and
stations to be very boring and tiring. But while I
5 around Java, my ideas 6 to
change. Everything 7 slowly there. You
8 entire mornings waiting for buses
and trains so you have to start enjoying the process of
travelling; otherwise you 9 crazy!
I 10 a much better attitude to travelling ever
since then.
6 Write yes/no questions in a suitable tense using the verbs in
brackets.
1 you / many travel books? (read)
2 you / this programme / at the moment? (watch)
3 you / Dublin / next weekend? (travel)
7 Complete the questions with suitable question words.
1 museum would you prefer to visit?
2 does the sightseeing tour last?
3 will the tickets cost?
8 Complete the sentences with the words from the box. Then
rewrite them using the correct form of used to.
used wasn’t went were weren’t worked
1 Children happy with simple toys.
2 Fewer people to university in those days.
3 Most people on Saturdays.
4 Everybody pens to write documents.
5 There so many unemployed people.
6 Travelling abroad so easy in the past.
9 Find four sentences from Exercise 1 that could use would
instead of used to and rewrite them below.
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