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GRAMMAR REVIEW
1. Complete the following conversation about a gold-medal winning swimmer for Great
Britain using the present simple or continuous.
1 Q: What ________________ (this championship/mean) to you?
A: Actually, I ________________ (not/think) too much about it.I ________________
(concentrate) on what I ________________ (do) now and the process of building up to
it.
2 Q: ________________ (what/influence) you during a race?
A: When you ________________ (hear) people cheering your name, it
________________ (make) it more exciting.
3 Q: ________________ (you/train) every day?
A: At the moment, I ________________ (do) a bit more than usual. I
________________ (get) Sundays off and I ________________ (have) gym work as
well.
4 Q: How ________________ (an important competition/affect) your training routine?
A: The routine ________________ (not/change) before a major championship. But
this time, we________________ (try) different stuff in the sessions.
2. Complete the text with the forms of present perfect or past simple.
Film maker George Richards ________________ (be) interested in the cinema since he
________________ (be) a small child. He ________________ (make) his first film when
he ________________ (be) just twelve years old. He is now almost forty and he
________________ (make) thirty films. George loves travelling. His work
________________ (take) him all over the world. He ________________ (be) to Africa,
India, Australia, China, the USA and South America. Last year, he ________________
(visit) Russia for the first time. George is married to the singer Kathy Burke. They
________________ (be) married for ten years. They live with their two children on the
Greek island of Kos. They ________________ (buy) a house on the island in 1987 and they
________________ (live) there since then.
3. Put the verb into either the gerund (-ing) or the infinitive (with 'to').
4. Complete the news item with the past simple and past perfect simple form of these verbs.
Rescuers in Scotland ________________ to return twenty whales to the sea this weekend.
The whales ________________ from a larger group that ________________ stuck on the
beach. Several other whales ________________ before the rescuers ________________ to
help them. Earlier the rescue team ________________ unsuccessfully to stop the whales
from coming too close to the shore. The reason for the whales behavior is not clear.
5. Look at the time expressions and complete the sentences about Boyd Matson with the
present simple and past simple form of the verbs.
6. Tick the sentences where used to can replace the past simple.
B: Yes, its just started. It looks really familiar, though. I ________________ it before, I think.
A: Really? It says in the paper that its a brand new series, so it ________________ on before.
cant have been might have been could have phoned must have been
might have been must have had
B: Same number each time? It ________________ important if they called four times.
A: No, different numbers. But they didnt leave any messages, so it ________________ that
important. I wonder how I missed them?
A: No, I didnt.
A: Yes, Maybe. Well, I dont recognize the numbers, so I suppose they ________________ by
mistake.