Tenses

1. Past
a.Simple
b. Continuous/progressive
c.Perfect
d. Perfect continuous
2. Present
3. Future
Present Simple
1.We are Marine engineering students.
2.The boy enjoys math.
The boy does not (doesn't) enjoy math.
Does the boy enjoy math?
Who enjoys math? The boy
What does the boy enjoy? Math
Passive: Math is enjoyed.
Exercise 1:
1. Computers … in a product to be made easily.
A. also permit changes
C. permit also changes
B. are also permitted changes
D. and changes are also permitted

2. On the assembly line, computer-controlled

robots … such as welding and painting.
A. use for tasks
C. are used for tasks
B. are using for tasks
D. for tasks are used
3. Friction is the force of resistance when two
surfaces …
A. are sliding against each other.
C. slide each other against.
B. slide against each other.
D. slide against the other.

4. The heat … the edges of the components

being welded together, and once the material
has become molten, fusion occurs.
A. is melted
C. are melted
B. melts
D. melt
5. In most cases, nuts … onto bolts by turning
them anticlockwise.
A. are screwed
C. screwed
B. is screwed
D. screw

6. The AbioCor artificial heart contains a

hydraulic pump and a valve which lets the
hydraulic fluid move from one side of the heart
to the other.
7. Hydroforming are is used when there is a
demand for lower weight with high strength.
8. Images and sounds often are often added to
games to make them more realistic and more
exciting.
9. Some materials can change shape
significantly, but do/can not return to their
original shape.
10. The combination of wood and fiberglass
gives the snowboard strength with little weight.

Present Continuous
+ I am studying to be a surveyor.
? Are you studying to be a surveyor?
? Who are studying to be a surveyor?
? What are you studying to be?
A: We are reading 4 chapters now.
P: 4 chapters are being read.
Exercise 2
1. Scientists nowadays … to understand more
about how the brain works.
A. are beginning slowly
C. are slowly beginning
B. slowly are beginning
D. is slowly beginning

2. The company … a report for their most

important client this week.
A. is preparing
C. prepares
B. are preparing
D. prepare
3. Accident investigators … the wreckage of the
high-speed train which left the rails and
overturned in northwest England last week.
A. is still examining
C. are still examining
B. is examining still
D. still are examining

4. Technicians report that they … difficulty

installing the new computer system.
A. has
C. are having
B. have
D. is having
5. That sports company … new sportswear that
will allow athletes to perform more efficiently
this month.
A. develops
C. develop
B. is developing
D. are developing

6. The study researchers are now focusing on

how plants is are using bedrock water at their
field sites as California faces severe droughts.
7. Inkjet printers are being developed to form
an image by spraying tiny amounts of ink onto a
piece of paper precisely in the right place.

8. Hadi Ghasemi, Cullen Associate Professor at

the University of Houston, are is changing what
we know about when water freezes as he
pushes the limit and gets the best look yet at
tiny drops of water as they freeze.

9. With the recent uptick in Covid-19 cases,

colleges and universities across the US is are
making spring semester changes to keep the
highly transmissible omicron variant away from
campus.
10. An Asian American activist group is calling
for an awards boycott of director Paul Thomas
Anderson's "Licorice Pizza" over its use of a fake
Asian accent.