Grammar exercises

I. Give the past form of the verbs, arrange them according to the pronunciation of the endings:

[t] [d] [id]

1. Walk, arrive, wash, drop, spell, dry, watch, dust, open, add, kiss, hurry, travel, close, start, post, tidy, cover, want, play, stop, finish, regret, work, finish.

II. Replace the infinitives given in brackets by the Past Simple. Translate the sentences.

1. The weather is nice today, but it (to be) bad yesterday. 2. I (to get) to the market myself last time, but now I don’t remember how to get there. 3. Five years ago my dad (to sell) his farm and (to buy) a business in a small town. 4. Jilius Caesar (to found) the Tower of London. 5. He isn’t playing tennis tomorrow afternoon, he (not/to play) tennis yesterday. 6. Shishkin (not / to create) his picture “Morning in the Pine - Wood” alone. The no - less famous painter Savitsky (to paint) the bear with her three little cubs. 7. I (to spend) my childhood, boyhood and youth in a little ordinary town on the banks of the Volga. 8. I’m a doctor now, but two years ago I (to be) a student at a medical college in Moscow. 9. When we (to be) students, we (to like) to walk to college in a fine weather. 10. Agatha Christie (to write) over 75 detective stories. 11. Yesterday he (not / have) dinner again. 12. We (not / to write) a test in physics yesterday.

III. 1. Make up questions and answers from the following words.

Questions Jim Alison

Where / to go Kenya Scotland

When / to go last June last October

How long / to stay three weeks one week

Where / to stay a camping a hotel

What /to do to take photos to go walking

What / to see of wild animals: elephants, lions, some beautiful lakes (not the Loch

giraffes (not crocodiles) Ness Monster)

Enjoy / the holiday?

2. Make up questions and answer them:

1) a) morning / you / time / get / up / what / in / the / did? b) dinner / night / have / what / last / you / for / did? c) did / train / last / you / by / when / travel? d) do / what / Sunday / you / last / did? e) go / on / you / how / university / did / to / Monday?

3. Put general, alternative, disjunctive questions to the following sentences:

a) Three weeks later I left for Moscow. b) Last week my Dad went to work on foot. c) I saw the new TV play yesterday. d) I watched the TV program till midnight. e) Tom learnt his physics lessons in the evening.

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