REVISING GRAMMAR 1 2

1
Use the Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous.
find ■ know ■ eat ■ play ■ wait ■ work
1- you ever Mexican food?
2-We haven’t had a chance to speak. She all
week.
3-Martin a job at last!
4-How long you that game?
5-They us since we moved here.
6-Where have you been? We here for ages!

Complete the sentences using the correct form of the verbs in

brackets.
1 How I this photo to my blog?
(upload)
2 He talks and talks, but he never to the
point. (get)
3 The number of people using text messaging in
the last decade. (grow)
4 I can’t talk now. I something with my
teacher. (discuss)
5 Tim all his exams last summer! (fail)
6 Have you heard? There a car crash at the end
of the street. (just / be)
7 She to her boyfriend when she dropped her
phone in the soup! (talk)
8 Charlie past me in the corridor and didn’t
say anything. (walk)
9 I to the shops. Would you like to come along?
(go)
10 It when I left home. (rain)
2
Complete the sentences using the verbs in brackets and the
Future Perfect Simple or Future Continuous.
1 They (play) against the best team in the
league on Saturday.
2 We (not see) Eric until next week.
3 you (finish) your homework
before they arrive?
4 Jack (go out) by the time I get home.
5 you (go) into the city centre
today?
6 We (not have) time to organise that before
the party.
7 That new shop (open) by the end of the
week.
8 Sarah (organise) it – ask her.
Complete the report using a suitable future tense.
1
Anyone who (buy) a drone in the UK in future
2
(need to) register it and take a safety test
under new rules being drawn up to prevent collisions with
passenger planes. This year, ministers 3
(propose) measures that include punishment for anyone who
operates a drone in no-fly zones near airports and prisons.
There are already strict rules for users, but drones have
become increasingly popular recently, and are now available in
high-street shops and online. The government wants the
4
drone industry, which (increase) in value to
£100 billion by the middle of the next decade, to continue
growing safely.It is thought that more and more transport
providers, emergency services and conservation groups 5
(use) drones to improve their services and
respond to incidents. Drones which 6 (fly)
for commercial purposes may soon need the pilot to be
licensed. Allegedly, Amazon 7 (make)
commercial deliveries using drones in the near future.