I. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets
- What has happened to you? You look so excited!
- Have you read Martin Eden by Jack London? – Yes, I read it 5 years ago.
- When I got off the train, I was surprised to see that an old friend of mine had come to the station to meet me.
- I asked him where he had been of late.
- She asked me where I would spend my holidays the next year.
II. Supply prepositions
- I haven’t seen him since last Sunday.
- My shoes are made of very good leather.
- Will you have finished this work by Saturday?
- Take care of the cents and the dollars will take care of themselves.
- Open your textbooks at page 42.
III. Change into Active Voice
- They were discussing an important question.
- She is writing a letter now.
- They will have published my book by the end of this year.
- Did you arrange everything?
- They have held the meeting in the big hall.
IV. Form different types of questions
- Will this letter have to be sent off by air mail? (General question)
- Why did she have to take her children to the kindergarten every morning? (Special question)
- Was the telegram followed by a letter or by a phone call? (Alternative question)
- He hurt his leg while he was playing football, didn’t he? (Question tag)
- How often do you go to see your grandparents? (Special)
V. Translate into English
- He left Yerevan without leaving us his address.
- He said that he had never been there before.
- He was persuading us that driving a car in Yerevan was not dangerous at all.
- This issue is less important. Let’s postpone its discussion until next week.
- Spring is much colder this year than it was last year.
- If I knew he was coming tomorrow, I wouldn’t go to their place this evening.
- If you had come in the morning, you wouldn’t have seen anyone.
- It is necessary that you memorize the list of the most commonly used irregular verbs.
- To my surprise, I couldn’t run faster than my younger brother.
- What made him break his promise?