DO YOU LIKE SPORTS?

Choose the correct variant .

By the time we get there, the post office                 [was closed, will be closed, would be closed, has been closed] ...

I met Jane while I ... on the beach.                  [was walking, would be walking, has been walking, had been walking]

I ..                [will come, am coming, be coming, will have come].. to Venice tomorrow; I will phone you when I arrive.

We ..                   [were playing, have been piaying, had been playing, would be playing].. tennis until it started raining.

Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

1) ___         ____is a game played by two or four 2)__         _______ on a rectangular 3)__        ______.The players use an oval 4) ___         ______with strings across it to hit a 5)__       _____ over a 6)__      ____ across the middle of the court.

Choose the correct tense form.

It had been raining all day and the roads __          [had been, were]____ very wet.

When _                [did she choose, has she chosen]____ to take a course in English?

Tom __                   [had been thinking, thought]_____ about his answer during the lunch break.

Dan was angry. He_                  [had been waiting, was waiting]__ for Linda for two hours.

Read the sentences and refer the underlined verbs

Complete the sentences by putting the verb in brackets into the most suitable past tense.

I..               . (review) gfammar rules before the test when my computer..         . (start) to blink.

She was upset, because she                 ... (not/manage) to prepare for the test.

Choose the correct tense form.

Students ___            [opened, had opened]____ their books and did the exercise.

The teacher__             [was smiling, had smiled]_____ as he was reading Kate’s essay

It was easy for him to get lost because he__             [hadn`t been, wasn`t]_____in a big city before.

Tom __               [listened, was listening]_____ to the teacher while the others __             [took, were taking]_____ notes.

Choose the correct variant .

By the time he was thirty-five, he _                 [earn, earned, had earned, had been earned]________a fortune.

I __                     [was listening, were listening, have been listening, had been listening]_______to my MP3 player, so I didn't hear the fire alarm.

We _               [have made, made, had made, had been made]________ some plans for the weekend just before your call.

Mum __                  [had been cooking, is cooking, cooks, was cooking]_______ dinner when we came back from school.

Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

1)___           ________ is a team 2) __      _________played between two 3)____       _______ of eleven players each, using hooked sticks with which the players try to drive a small hard ball towards 4)____        _______ at opposite ends of a field. In North America it is called field hockey to distinguish it from ice hockey.

5) ____           _______ is a sport in which two people wrestle and try to throw each other to the ground.

6)___       ________ is a game in which you use long 7)___         ________ called 8) __        _________ to hit a small hard ball into holes that are spread out over a large area of grassy land.

Complete the sentences by putting the verb in brackets into the most suitable past tense.

__           _________ (be, they) nervous before a test yesterday?

John ___             ________(read) an economic book, while Tom .__                     _______ (look through) some magazines.