Exercise 11. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous.
1. Look! Somebody ________________ (break) the window.
2. I wonder if John _________________ (forget) my number. I ___________________ (expect) him to call for the past two hours.
3. You look very upset. What _______________________ (happen)?
4. You ____________________ (not finish) that book yet? You ___________________ (read) it for more than a week.
5. The meat must be nearly ready. I _________________________ (cook) it for nearly an hour.
6. What you _____________________ (do) for the last two hours? – I _____________________ (sit) here working at this problem.
7. I ________________ (lose) my key. Can you help me look for it?
8. My brother is an actor. He _____________________ (appear) in several films.
9. Sorry! I’m late. – That’s all right. I ___________________________ (not wait) long.
10. She just __________________(sell) two of her paintings. – She’s lucky. I _______________ (paint) for five years and I ____________________ (not sell) a single picture yet.
11. He _____________________ (sleep) since ten o’clock. It’s time he woke up.
12. I __________________ (pump) up three tyres. Would you like to do the fourth?
13. That boy _______________ (eat) seven ice-creams.
14. That helicopter ____________________ (fly) round the house for the last hour; do you think it’s taking photographs?
15. We ___________________ (walk) ten kilometers.
16. We ________________________ (walk) for three hours.
17. I ____________________ (work) for him for ten years and he never once say “Good morning” to me.
18. The radio _____________________ (play) since 7 a.m. I wish someone would turn it off.
19. He __________________ (study) English for two years and doesn’t even know the alphabet yet.
Exercise 12. Complete the sentence with used to + the verb in brackets in positive, negative or question form.
1. What things used to be (be) different in the past?
2. For a start, all the continents ___________ (form) one large land mass.
3. Obviously, there __________ (be) cities and buildings, and forest covered a third of the Earth.
4. The climate was different, and animals such as the hippopotamus and rhinoceros ___________ (exist) in northern Europe.
5. Many mountains in Europe ___________ (be) active volcanoes.
6. Early people ___________ (live) in complex societies, but in small groups in places where they could find food.
7. What ______________ (eat) ? They ____________ (eat) whatever they could find.
8. Early people _____________ (stay) in the same place, but ____________ (travel) long distances, following the animals they needed for food.
9. Jaсk ______________ (havе) a bеard but hе shavеd it off.
10. My mothеr ____________ (rеad) to mе еvеry night.
11. In thе holidays wе ________________ (mееt) at thе bеaсh еvеry morning.
12. I _______________ (not likе) spinaсh, but now I do.
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