Correct, or incorrect?
The soup is tasting delicious.
Incorrect.
Correct version: The soup tastes delicious.
Taste is a non-action verb. Unit 2
When can you use the present simple for future events? Explain and give an example.
Timetables and schedules (trains, planes, websites, etc.)
The pottery class starts at 8 pm. (it says so on the website)
At 9 pm, most people on the plane ........ (read) or......(try) to sleep.
At 9 pm, most people on the plane ........ (read) or......(try) to sleep.
Past continuous: a longer continuous past action, or an incomplete action in the past
If I am hungry, I...............(get) angry. That's usually the case.
If I am hungry, I am angry. That's usually the case.
Zero conditional: rules or facts
Someone has stolen Andy's bike.
Andy's bike has been stolen
She is doing it for ten years.
Incorrect.
Correct version: She has been doing it for ten years.
Present perfect continuous used with for and since, actions that start in the past and continue to the present. Unit 2
Look at those clouds. It.......................rain!
a) is going to
b) will
a) is going to
Prediction based on an observable fact.
Lina was crying because she.....................(read) a very sad story.
Lina was crying because she had been reading a very sad story.
The past perfect continuous: an emphasis on the continuation
If you (win)..... a lottery, what (you do)............?
If I were you, I would find another job.
If you won a lottery, what would you do?
Second conditional. Unclear if the person buys lottery tickets, so we prefer the 'daydreaming' conditional. Unreal present. Speculation about something unlikely or impossible
Complete in advanced passive.
Someone stole our passports from our hotel room.
Our passports were stolen from our hotel room.
We.....our passports ...........(steal) from our hotel room.
We had our passports stolen from our hotel room.
Causative have
By the time we arrived in the cinema, the film already started.
Incorrect.
Correct version: By the time we arrived in the cinema, the film had already started.
Past perfect - an action before the past event. Unit 3
Which is correct?
a) Richard and Ann are getting married on October 10.
b) Richard and Ann are going to get married on October 10.
a) Richard and Ann are getting married on October 10.
It is arranged for the date, set in stone. The invitations are probably sent.
I couldn't board my plane to Argentina, because I (forgot)...........my passport.
I couldn't board my plane to Argentina, because I had forgotten my passport.
If my Dad (not go) ...... to study in Canada 20 years ago, he (not meet)..............my mum.
If my Dad hadn't gone to study in Canada 20 years ago, he wouldn't have met my mum.
Third conditional. Unreal past.
Our locks are broken.
They need changing.
We ought to.......our locks (change).
We ought to have our locks changed.
causative have
If he had trained more, he would have won the Olympic games.
Correct.
Third conditional. Unreal situations in the past. Unit 5A
Which is correct?
a) The rain will stop by this afternoon.
b) The rain will have stopped by this afternoon.
b) The rain will have stopped by this afternoon.
Future perfect: a completed action/event before a point in the future. Unit 4A
I never (like).................strawberries when I was little. But now I love them!
Past habit
I never used to like strawberries when I was little. But now I love them!
You (be tired)........................now if you (go).........to bed earlier last night.
You wouldn't be so tired now if you had gone to bed earlier last night.
Mixed 2/3 conditional: present unreal situation (you are, in fact tired) combined with the past unreal condition (you didn't go to bed early last night).
People say our teacher is in his 40s.
The teacher is said to be in his 40s.
he is thought to
he is said to
he is believed to
My Grandmother is in the hospital.
Incorrect.
Correct version:
My Grandmother is in the hospital.
Articles. Unit 10
Institutions such as hospitals, schools, universities ยด= no article + prep. at or in
.............(you wait) for me when I get off the train?
Will you be waiting for me when I get off the train?
Future continuous. Unit 4A an action in progress in the future.
I (watch) ...............................TV in the living room when I (hear) ...............a knock on the door. I opened the door and there was noone. The person (disappear)..........!
I was watching TV in the living room when I heard a knock on the door. I opened the door and there was noone. The person had disappeared!
When he (get).............a pay rise next year, he (buy) ....... a new car. His boss has already spoken to him.
When he gets a pay rise next year, he will buy a new car. His boss has already spoken to him.
The police believe he has left the country.
He is believed + perfect infinitive = past