MARCH 17TH. GRAMMAR GAME AND EXERCISE
GRAMMAR REVISION: TENSES
ESO 3: Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb.
Herbie loves trains ! He first __________________ (SEE) a train when he was five years old and he __________________ (BE) absolutely fascinated. He __________________ (GO) to a different train station every week and __________________ (WRITE) down the engine number of every train he sees. He _____________________ (DO) this since he was seven. By the time he left school he _____________________ (COLLECT) over 5000 different engine numbers from all over the world. At one time, while he __________________ (STAND) at a station he _____________ (SEE) something very strange. He __________________ (WAIT) for a train for an hour when he suddenly __________________ (SEE) an old steam locomotive coming down the tracks. It __________________ (NOT STOP) at the station and when it __________________ (PASS) Herbie saw that all the passengers __________________ (WEAR) old-fashioned clothes. He told the station manager about this, but the manager said that no steam locomotive ___________________ (PASS) through the station for years, and that the last one __________________ (CRASH) , killing everyone on board.
BACH 1: Fill in the gaps in this interview with the correct form of the verb.
-Sandra, you _____________________ (spend) the last sixty years exploring the world. When __________________________ (you first become) interested in travelling?
-Well, I can tell you the exact day. I ________________(be) eleven years old and I _____________________ (sit) in the school library and I _____________________ (read)a book about South Africa. Suddenly I _____________________ (see) a picture of Lake Victoria and at that moment I _____________________ (decide) to become an explorer.
-When ___________________________ (you, first, go) to Lake Victoria?
-Well, after I _____________________ (leave) school at the age of 15, I _____________________ (live) with my uncle for two years. He _____________________ (be) an old man then, but he _______________(be) a sailor all his life. He _____________________ (find) me a job on a ship and at the age of 17 I _____________________ (arrive) in Africa!
-You _____________________ (travel) to the most interesting countries in the world. ____________________________ (you, ever, have) any frightening experiences?
-Oh yes, lot’s of them
-Which _____________________ (be) your most frightening?
-Perhaps it __________________(be) one night in India in 1942. Something really frightening _____________________ (happen). It ______________(be) about ten o’clock and I ________________(be) in bed. I _____________________ (walk) all day and so I _____________________ (feel) very tired. I _____________________ (just blow) out my candle when I _____________________ (feel) something heavy sitting on my feet. When I _____________________ (light) my candle, I _____________________ (can) hardly believe my eyes: a tiger _____________________ (sit) on my bed!
-My goodness! Is that story really true, Sandra?
-How dare you ask me that! I _____________________ (never tell) a lie in my life.
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