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Out & About 2

Grammar practice – reinforcement. Unit 1

Tense review
1 Complete the sentences with the present simple, present continuous or
imperative form of the verbs in brackets.
1 I ____________________________ (see) my grandparents in Cantabria every year.
2 ____________________________________________ (close) the window! It’s cold!
3 We ________________________________________ (move) house at the moment.
4 I _____________________________ (try) to get to Manaus. Is there another flight?
5 _________________________________ (not go) near the water! You might fall in!

2 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.


1 I ’ve waited / ’ve been waiting here for two hours!
2 They ’ve looked / ’ve been looking at travel books about Brazil all morning.
3 Carol hasn’t ever lived / hasn’t ever been living on her own.

3 Complete the sentences with the past simple, past continuous or past
perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.
1 I ____________________________________________(visit) Australia some years
before I ______________________________________________ (go) to university.
2 While we _____________________________________________(sit) on the beach,
it ______________________________________________________ (start) to rain.
3 Dave __________________________________________(decide) to drive to Ayer’s
Rock because he ___________________________________ (hear) it was beautiful.

4 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.


1 Very few people used to / use to have the internet in those days.
2 The Brazilian Amazon wouldn’t / didn’t use to be a holiday destination.
3 Hotels would / wouldn’t to look after their customers.
4 When I was a kid, we would / would to climb trees.
5 You did use to / Did you use to travel by train?

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5 Choose the best future tense answers to complete the sentences.


1 This time next week, we will be living / are living in the new house!
2 I am meeting / will meet Sam and John at 5 pm for coffee.
3 In 20 years’ time, everybody is going to have / will have electric cars.
4 Look at the sky. It will be raining / is going to rain for sure.
5 That looks heavy. I will help / am helping you.
6 I will take / will be taking my books back to the library tomorrow.
7 By the end of this year, she’s going to travel / will have travelled by plane 24
times.

6 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets using the most
appropriate tense.
1 I ______________________________________________ (work) hard all morning.
2 It _____________________________________ (rain) when we started the journey.
3 Sally ________________________________________ (work) as a flight attendant.
4 He ____________________________________________ (never, go) to New York.
5 There ______________________________________ (not be) any road travel in the
next century.
6 ___________________________________ (answer) the phone! My hands are wet!
7 __________________________________________ (you, see) today’s newspaper?

7 Put the words in the correct order to make yes/no questions.


1 many / you / books / read / Do / ?
___________________________________________________________________
2 this / at / you / moment / watching / Are / programme / the / ?
___________________________________________________________________
3 to / weekend / travelling / you / Dublin / be / Will / next / ?
___________________________________________________________________

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8 Complete the questions using the question words from the box.
How long How much Which

1 _________________________________ museum would you prefer to visit?


2 _________________________________ does the sightseeing tour last?
3 _________________________________ will the tickets cost?

9 Rewrite the sentences with used to or didn’t use to.


1 Children were happy with simple toys.
2 Fewer people went to university in those days.
3 Most people worked on Saturdays.
4 Everybody used pens to write documents when in the office.
5 There weren’t so many unemployed people.
6 Travelling abroad wasn’t so easy in the past.

10 Rewrite these sentences from Exercise 9 using would.


1 Fewer people went to university in those days.
2 Most people worked on Saturdays.
3 Everybody used pens to write documents when in the office.

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