GRAMMAR REVISION
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:
Tom Wilson 1) ............... (be) an explorer. He 2) …………. (be) to nearly every country in the
world, but the most exciting time he 3) …………………………. (ever/have) was when he 4)
…………………… (go) to the Congo jungle. A magazine 5)………………….. (ask) him to retrace
the route of a famous explorer who 6) …………………. (disappear) in the 1920's. As he 7)
……………….(follow) a small river he got separated from his guides. He 8) ………………………….
(go on) alone, hoping he 9) ………………….. (find) them, but instead he 10) …………………
(encounter) a group of natives. He 11) …............... (stay) with them for several days and 12)
…………………….. (find out) that a very old woman 13) ……………………(actually/meet) the
famous explorer. She 14) …………… (know) how he 15) …………………………….(die). Tom 16)
………………………….(become) very friendly with the natives and now he 17)
…………………………… (plan) to go back and see them again. He is sure they 18)
…………………………………..(welcome) him back.
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:
When Francis Lee was a boy he 1) ............................. (want) to be an astronaut. He 2) ……........
…….(watch) TV one day in 1969 when he 3) ……………………. (see) Neil Armstrong walk on the
moon. Since then he 4) …………….......……… (always/dream) of doing the same. Every night
when there is a full moon, he 5)………….……….. (stare) up at it for hours and 6) ……………..........
……. (imagine) himself walking around on it. At the moment, however, he 7) ……………….(work)
as a night-watchman at a meat factory. He 8) …………………………. (do) the same job since he
left school fifteen years ago, but he still hopes that one day his dream 9) ……….............…………..
(come) true. He 10) ………………… (hear) that in the 21 st century they 11) …................... (sell)
tickets to fly to the moon. For this reason he 12) …………….............(save) half of his wages every
month for the past two years.
