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Revision Ppio de A o 6to

The document provides grammar rules and exercises on various English tenses including the present simple and continuous, past simple and continuous, future plans, used to and would, passive voice, and reported speech. It includes examples sentences with blanks to be filled in with the correct verb form. There are also sentences to rewrite from direct to reported speech. The document aims to help adults revise their knowledge of basic English verb tenses and grammar.

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Revision Ppio de A o 6to

The document provides grammar rules and exercises on various English tenses including the present simple and continuous, past simple and continuous, future plans, used to and would, passive voice, and reported speech. It includes examples sentences with blanks to be filled in with the correct verb form. There are also sentences to rewrite from direct to reported speech. The document aims to help adults revise their knowledge of basic English verb tenses and grammar.

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CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE

ADULTS 3- Revision

1. Present Simple and Continuous 2. Past Simple and Continuous

3. Past Simple and Continuous. Choose the correct alternative.

Thomas Edison started/was starting work on the railway when he was twelve, selling newspaper and snacks.
There were long periods with nothing for him to do, so he built/was building himself a little laboratory in the
luggage van. He could carry out experiments there when he didn't sell/wasn't selling things to passengers. He
also joined/was joining a library and read/was reading every single books in it. One day, when he waited/was
waiting at the station, he noticed/was noticing a small boy. The boy played/was playing by the track, unaware
that a train approached/was approaching. Edison ran/was running out and grabbed/was grabbing the child just
in time. The child's father was so grateful that he offered/was offering to teach Edison to be a telegraph
operator. After a year, he was good enough to get a job in the telegraph office. He continued to read and
experiment whenever he had/was having time. At twenty-one he left/was leaving the telegraph office to devote
all his time to being an inventor. He went on/was going on to invent the electric light bulb, the phonograph and
the movie camera.

2.Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the verbs in the box.

eat be not run become go study

a. I wish I __________ a bigger breakfast. I’m so hungry!”


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b. If only you ___________more patient with her.
c. I wish I _________to bed earlier last night.
d. Alice didn't get a good grade. She wishes she _________ harder.
e. He was running very fast when he had a heart attack. If only he__________so fast.
f. Tom likes football very much. He wishes he __________a professional football player.

4.Passive Voice 5. Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

6. Future Plans

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7.Used to and Would 8.

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9.Reported Speech. Rewrite the sentences.

“I have been to the gym this week.”


He said he had been to the gym that week.

1. “The postman will come soon”


John said___________________________
2. “Nigel has spent all his money on clothes”
Nancy said__________________________
3.”I hate playing golf but I don’t mind watching football
on TV.”
Julio said____________________________
4. “I can do my homework now.”
He said _____________________________
5. “Do you have any plans for the weekend?”
Carl asked __________________________

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