Part 8 (GRAMMAR REVISION)
PUT THE VERBS IN BRACKETS INTO A CORRECT PRESENT, PAST OR FUTURE TENSE. When Francis Lee was a boy he wanted (want) to be an astronaut. He was watching (watch) TV one day in 1969 when he saw (see) Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Since then hehas always dreamt (always of doing the same. Every night when there is a full moon, he stares (stare) up at it for hours and imagines (imagine) himself walking around on it. At the moment, however, he is working (work) as a night-watchman at a meat factory. He has been doing (do) the same job since he left school fifteen years ago, but he still hopes that one day his dream will come (come) true. He has heard (hear) that soon they will be selling (sell) tickets to fly to the moon. For this reason he has been saving (save) half of his wages every month for the past two years and he has already saved (already a nice amount. READ THE STORY AND WRITE THE MISSING WORDS. USE ONE WORD ONLY IN EACH SPACE. During periods of terrorist activity by the IRA, people in Britain are always being warned to look out for bombs. Any bag or parcel without an owner was seen as a risk to the public. Some time ago a cardboard box was found at the entrance to Bristol Zoo one day. It was noticed by a visitor and reported to the director. Clearly, if it was a bomb and it went off, people might get killed. So army bomb experts were called in, and the box was safely blown up in a controlled explosion. Soon afterwards it was reported that the box had been left there by a boy wanting to find a new home for his pet rat. He was tired of the rat, he explained, but he was unwilling to it being put to sleep by a vet, so the rat was left in a box outside the zoo. The director of the zoo was thought to be unenthusiastic about looking after people’s unwanted pets. No one knows what the rat thought about being blown up. MATCH THE CORRECT OPTIONS. If I had found out the truth, I would have told you. If I found out the truth, I'd tell you. If I find out the truth, I'll tell you. If you find out the truth, tell me about it. Unless I find out the truth, I won't be happy. CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION. I'm sure he's a businessman. He could be a businessman. He must be a businessman. He can be a businessman. Perhaps she's shopping. She might be shopping. She must be shopping. She must shop. It's obvious that she doesn't worry about following fashion. She couldn't worry about following fasion. She mustn't worry about following fashion. She can't worry about following fashion. MATCH THE CORRESPONDING PARTS OF THE SENTENCES. He must have been hungry. He ate everything. He can't have been hungry. He didn't eat anything. He might have been hungry. He was too polite to ask.