TENSE REVISION

READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

a. Where is Lisa from?
b. What does she do?
c. Where does she work?
d. What does she like doing?
e. What kind of men does she prefer?

READ THE ARTICLE AND CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER.

1-Lisa is.........
A-married B- single C-alone
2-Lisa is a..............
A- journalist B- writer C- secretary
3- She ............her job.
A-doesn’t like B-hates C-likes
4-Lisa goes out.........
A- every night B- with friends C-to quiet places.
5- Lisa........... twice a week
A-goes to the gym B- goes running C-keeps fit
6-Lisa doesn’t often have.........
A- tea B- vegetables C-meat
7-She prefers.................men
A- good looking B- funny C- lazy
8-She likes talking about ............
A-meals B- fashion clothes C- politics

PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS

READ THE TWO TEXTS CAREFULLY. THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. What does Isabel usually do on Saturday mornings?
2. What is she doing this Saturday?
3. What does Mark usually do on Christmas day?
4. What is he doing this Christmas?
5. Underline the verbs in the two texts, compare between the verbs that describe habits (usually) and the verbs that describe actions
at the time of speaking (this Saturday/ Christmas…/ Now …) . Then complete the rules:
a) When we describe habits, we put the verb in the ……………………………………. tense.
b) When we describe actions at the time of speaking, we put the verb in the ……………………….………….. tense.
COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT LEO BY PUTTING THE VERBS IN THE CORRECT TENSE.

‘On my birthday I (go/ sometimes)……………………… out with friends, or I (go) ………… out to a restaurant with my family. My Mum
(make/ usually) ………………………me a birthday cake. My Dad and sisters (get/ usually) ………………………… me birthday presents.’
But this birthday is different! It’s Leo’s eighteenth birthday, so now he’s an adult. This morning he got a lot of presents. Now he
(have) ……………………………a big party with all his friends. They (dance)……………….. and (sing) ……………………………….. They (eat)
……………………………. delicious food and cakes, and (drink)……………………………. different sweet drinks. Leo (wear) ………………………………..
a blue jumper.
PAST SIMPLE VS PAST CONTINUOUS

PUT THE VERBS IN THE CORRECT TENSE

PRESENT PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
READ THE ARTICLE: IT’S ALL IN YOUR GENES

What colour hair have you got? Is it straight, wavy or curly? What colour are your eyes? Why are some people tall and slim
while others are short and stocky? It’s all in your genes. Each person on this planet is unique, because everyone has got a different
combination of genes. These are contained in the DNA structure. Your genes determine your general shape and size, the colour of
your skin, eyes and hair, the shape of your face, nose, ears, mouth and teeth.
For every part of your body you have got two genes. You inherit one from your mother and one from your father. One of
the two genes is dominant, but you can pass either gene on to your children. Look at this couple, for example. The man and the
woman both carry a gene for blue eyes and a gene for brown eyes, which they have inherited from their own parents, but they have
both got brown eyes, because the brown gene is always dominant. In this example the couple have two sons and two daughters and
each one has received one of the four possible combinations of the parents’ genes. As we can see, one of them is blue-eyed and the
other three have got brown eyes, but three of them carry a blue gene.
A gene can stay hidden in a family for generations. For example, the second daughter is married. Her husband’s eyes
are brown, but he also carries a blue gene. This couple have got four children and each child has got a different combination of
the parents’ genes. So one child has got blue eyes, although her parents and grandparents have all got brown eyes.
Knowledge about genes has been used since the eighteenth century to improve plants and animals. Scientists and farmers
select the best possible specimens to breed from. In this way they have been able to produce bigger fruit and vegetables, animals
that produce more meat, kinds of wheat or rice that are more resistant to disease, and so on. This is known as selective breeding.
Now scientists can actually identify the genes for particular characteristics. In the new science of genetic engineering, genes
can be removed, added or replaced to produce the characteristics that we want. New and better plants and animals will be
produced by genetic engineering. Will we be able to design the perfect human being, too? “Nobody’s perfect”, we say. Perhaps one
day everyone will be.

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

a) What is the article about?
b) What do you really know about this subject?
c) Why is everybody unique?
d) How is it possible for a blue-eyed child to come from brown-eyed parents and grandparents?
e) How does selective breeding work?
f) How does the process of genetic engineering differ from selective breeding?
g) Find the words in the text that describe: parts of the body, family relationships. Add three more words to each list.
h) What family characteristics do you notice in your family? Write five characteristics. Make a list of five features that you have
inherited from your parents and grandparents.
GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
LOOK AT THE TITLE, DATE AND PHOTO.
O Date of the article: ……………………………..
O Who is the woman in the photograph?......................................
O Which country is she from? ……………………………….
READ THE ARTICLE.
a) FIND TWO DETAILS SHOWING THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD COMPETITION IS VERY ATTRACTIVE.
b) WHAT DID THE FINALISTS HAVE TO DO TO WIN THE COMPETITION? TICK THE CORRECT SENTENCES.
They had to bungee jump
They had to walk on a cable above the rainforest.
They had to answer the journalists’ questions.
c) WHO ELSE IS MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE. EXPLAIN WHY.
d) IS HE STILL AN ISLAND CARETAKER IN AUSTRALIA? WHY?
e) TICK BEN’S EXPERIENCES SINCE HE ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA.
He hasn’t been busy at all.
He has seen extraordinary natural sites.
He’s bought a new car.
He’s been in danger.
 He’s married a Scottish girl.
f) ELISA DETREZ’S PORTRAIT: COMPLETE THE CHART.
Education and
languages

Experience

g) CONCLUDE. WHY DOES ELISA SAY: “MY FRIENDS BACK HOME ARE GOING TO BE REALLY JEALOUS”?
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USED TO
ARE THE SENTENCES RIGHT OR WRONG? TICK OR CROSS
PASSIVE VOICE: PRESENT SIMPLE AND PAST SIMPLE