Grammar Revision B1+

Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Present Continuous. (write WITHOUT any contractions )

1 A: .....    you ....      ( want ) to go hiking with my family on Sunday?

B: Thanks for invitation, Bill, but we ....            ( have ) lunch with our grandparents. We always ...       ( visit ) them on Sundays.

2 A: ....    you ....      ( know) the man over there?

B: ...    ( be) he the man who ...            (talk) to a group of people?

A: Yes. He... (be) a famous director and he ...           (make) a new film in our city these days. By the way, he ...            ( look ) for people to act in his film. He mostly ....       ( need) young people.

B: As for me, I ...        ( prefer) to watch films in the cinema. It ....       ( seem) to me acting in a film ...        ( be not) much fun, but hard work.

Choose the correct verb form in Present tenses.

Daniel Stevens is a wildlife cameraman. He ...                  [films, is filming, has filmed, has been filming] wild animals for documentary programmes for seventeen years now. He ...                            [already explores, is already exploring, has already explored, has already been exploring] the world's jungles and rainforests. His wife Amanda always ....                      [accompanies, is accompanying, has accompanied, has been accompaying] him and helps in his work. They ...                   [work, is working, has worked, have been working]together for fifteen years and want to keep filming until they get too old. At the moment they ...                     [prepare, are preparing, have prepared, have been preparing] to go to the Arctic to film white bears. Alhough Daniel ...                     [understands, is understanding, has understood, has been understood] how dangerous his work is, he ...                     [prefers, is preferring, has preferred, has been preferring] to be face to face with the animals he ...                  [films, is filming, has filmed, has been filming].

" I love being in an environment that ...                      [doesn't change, isn't changing, hasn't changed, hasn't been changing] for years, he says.

Next year Daniel ...                   [plans, is planning, has planned, has been planning] to publish his book about filming. He ...                  [writes, is writing, has written, has been writing] it for more than four years and ...                           [almost finishes, is almost finishing, has almost finished, has been almost finishing] it. Daniel ...                 [hopes, is hoping, has hoped, has been hoping] this book will be a great support for the cameramen who ...                     [don't have, aren't having, haven't had, haven't been having] much experience yet.

Choose the correct verb form in Past tenses.

Today I ...         [had, had had] an awful day. I ...              [was arriving, arrived] at the office, ...             [sat, was sitting] down at my desk and suddenly ...                [discovered, had discovered] that I ...          [had lost, lost] a document on my computer because of a virus. I ...                  [worked, had been working] on it for the past three days. As if that ...              [wasn't, wasn't being] enough, a colleague ...             [would get, was getting] on my nerves. While I ...                 [was trying, had been trying] to remain calm, she ...              [had laughed, was laughing] at me.