Corret verbs in the past and present perfect
Be
Speak
Take
Meet
Write
See
come
Eat
Know
Think
Do
Work
Teach
Have
Have
Send
Collect
Buy
* Supply the correct verb tense:
1. Ba (be not) _____________________ bad ………… yesterday.
2. Lan and Ba(be) _____________________ good ………… last week.
3. __________ you (be) ____________ a good student …………… last year?
4. I (be) _____________________ a teacher ……………. ten years.
5. She (have) _____________________three classes …………. two days.
6. They (have) _____________________a week off ………. last semester.
7. ___________ he (do) ____________ his housework …………… yesterday evening?
8. She (not work) _____________________ very hard ……………. last week.
9. __________ Tan (go) ____________ home …………….. this morning?
10. Na (know) ___________________ the area very well ………… a month.
11. _________ you (cook) ____________ meals ………….. last night?
12. Nhi (wash) ________________ her clothes ……………. last weekend.
13. My father (speak) ________________ English well ……………… year.
14. ___________ Lan (listen) ____________ to music ………………….. 7 0’clock?
15. I (stay) ________________ in bed late recently.
16. My teacher (not shout) ________________ at us yet.
17. We (just, sing) ________________ in English together.
18. The doctor (not examine) ________________ the old patients yet.
19. Nga (tell) ________________ a lie recently.
20. Lan (be) _____________________ very friendly recently.
Rewrite the following sentences into reported speech
1. “please stop making noise” said Mrs Lan
2. “could you take these pictures to my room, Tan” asked Nga
3. Post this letter for me.” Said mom
4. “give your parents your report card” said teacher
5. could you help me with my English speaking, Ba?” askes Minh
6. can you carry my suitcase?’’ mary said to John
7. could you give me a hand? Mrs Jackson to Tim
8. Don’t swim out too far, Boys. The lifeguard said
1. You should spend more time doing yourhomework, Tam’ said Mr Nam
2. you should concentrate on your study at school” said the teacher
3. you should use this dictionary to find out how to pronounce English words” said Lan
4. you should take a few days off”’ the doctor said to Mr Robinson
5. you had better stay in bed for a few day
6. you ought to keep your body
Go
Read
Wear
say
leave
give
7. you shouldn’t drink alcohol or smoke
8. you ought not to eat fatty food
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.She asked her children _________________ ____________ .
a. to stop playing
b. stop to play
c. stop playing
d. stopping to play
2.People ____________ think that the world was flat .
a. get used to
b. didn’t use to
c. used to
d. are used to
3.His parents are always proud ________ him .
a. about
b. of c. on d. with
4.I know you worked really _________ this semester .a. hardly
b. good
c. bad d. hard
5.Mary was born in France. French is her ___________________
a. mother tongue
b. first language
c. foreign language
d. a and b
6.John came ___________________ an old school friend in the street this morning.
a. with
b. along
c. across
d. off
7.She advised me _______________ late.
a. not
b. not to be
c. not be
d. not being
8.He does morning exercises regularly ______________ improve his health.
a. in order for
b. so as to
c. so that
d. b and c
9.Yesterday she received Tim’s_______________ from his teacher
a. report call
b. call report
c. report card
d. card report
10.Tim’s Spanish pronunciation is not good so he should _________________ it
a. believe
b. make
c. improve
d. need
11.His doctor said he _________________ in bed that week
a. will stay
b. has to stay
c. can stay
d. should stay
12.Miss Jackson asked me ______________ you this dictionary
a. give
b. to give
c. to give
d. to giving
13.We should learn this poem ________________________
a. by heart
b. by soul
c. by many times
d. by millions
14.He told me ______________ harder.
a. study
b. to study
c. studying d. studied
Read the way this schoolgirl stdies English vocabulary and asnwer the questions below .
I have a little notebook. I always have it with. I try to fill one pape a day. Sometimes I put words in groups,
like fruit – all kind of fruit. You know ? Or colors, or clothes, or things and the shop where you buy them. I have
some grammar papes, where I write regular verbs or irregular verbs, or a pape of prepositions. I think prepositions
are difficulty, you know – on Sunday, in the morning, listen to a concert – but you say phone someone. In my
language we say “ phone to someone” .
1.What does she always have with her ?
2.How many papes does she try to fill a day ?
3.In what way does she put words ?
4.What does she write on grammar papes ?
5.Why does she have a pape for prepositions ?
Fill in each blank with a proper word from the box :
dictionary –held – improve – should – took – after – year – pronunciation – bookcase – school
……In the first year of lower secondary (1)………………… I had some difficulties in learning English .My
(2)…………………… of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse .I did not know how
to (3)…………………them .One afternoon (4) …………………the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait
for her outside the classroom .She (5)…………. me to the school library and showed me cassette of pronunciation
drills kept in a glass (6)………………… She also told me how to use an English-English (7)
…………………………to improve my English grammar .” now I think you know what you (8)
………………………do” said she .I did not know that only ane (9) ……………………later I won the first prize in
the English speaking contest (10) ……………………for secondary school students in my hometown .