Quiz on communicative grammar 14. Can you drive? No, but I _______ (learn) at the moment.

15. Look! That woman _______ (try) to steal that man's wallet
1. Simple Present / Present Continuous
1. Every Monday, Sally (drive) ........ her kids to football practice.
2. Usually, I (work) ........... as a secretary at ABT, but this 3. Put the verb in the correct form: past simple or past
summer I (study)............. French at a language school in Paris. continuous.
That is why I am in Paris. 1. I _______ (dream) when the alarm clock ______ (go off).
3. Shhhhh! Be quiet! John (sleep) ......... 2. They _______ (wait) for me when I ________(arrive).
4. Don't forget to take your umbrella. It (rain) .............. 3. The phone _______ (ring) while I _______ (have) a shower
5. I hate living in Seattle because it (rain, always) ............ 4. We ____ (not/go out) last Sunday because it _____ (rain).
6. I'm sorry I can't hear what you (say) ........ because everybody 5. I ______ (see) Kim at the party. She ___ (wear) a new dress.
(talk) ............ so loudly. 6. I _______ (break) a bowl this morning. When I _____ (wash)
7. Justin (write, currently) .......... a book about his adventures in the dishes it just _______ (slip) out of my hand onto the floor!
Tibet. I hope he can find a good publisher when he is finished. 7. When he _______ (carry) the table, he ___ (feel) a sharp pain
8. Do you want to come over for dinner tonight. Oh, I'm sorry, I in his back.
can't. I (go) ........... to a movie tonight with some friends. 8. Sarah ___ (go) down the stairs when the lights ____ (go out).
9. The business cards (be, normally) ................ printed by a 9. We ____ (watch) TV when someone ____ (come) to the door
company in New York. Their prices (be)............. inexpensive, yet and _______ (knock) very loudly.
the quality of their work is quite good. 10. What ____ (you/do) at this time yesterday? Oh, I ___
10. This delicious chocolate (be) ................. made by a small (prepare) the dinner.
chocolatier in Zurich, Switzerland.
4. Mixed Tests
1. I cannot make up my mind if I_________them till I
2.Put the verb in brackets into the present simple or the when they__________________________.
present continuous. A join, will find out, leave
1. She a1ways ______ (remember) my birthday. B will join, find out, will be leaving
2. Mr Brown ______ (work) in a supermarket. C will join, will find out, are leaving
3. I ______ (work) in his factory until I find a better job. D would join, would find out, will leave
4. Look! It ______ (snow).
5. Can you hear those girls? What ______ (they/ta1k) about? 2. Do you see a couple in the corner? Their dessert___________
6. _________ (you/know) Helen? now. As soon as they ______ it, we _______their table.
7. We ______ (never/go) to work by tube. It is too busy. A is served, finish, will take
8. When I'm in Paris I ___ (usually/stay) in the Hotel du Pont, but B is serving, will finish, take
this time I ____ (stay) in the more expensive Hotel Notre Dame.
9. Ruth _____ (be) a vegetarian. She ____ (not/eat) meat or fish.
10. My father ….. (be) an engineer, but he ____ (not/work) right
now.
11. _______________ (you/believe) in ghosts?
12. My parents _____ (live) in Sydney. Where ___ (your
parents/1ive)?
13. We _______ (own) two cars, an estate car and a sports car.
C will have finished, will take 1. He looks angry. I think he is due to lose his
D has been served, will have finished, will temper completely
take 2. With such poor sales figures, they are due
to go bankrupt in 2 years time.
3. When I_______to Riga, it was cold, a 3. I had my coat on and was about to leave
strong northern wind _____and it ____ when the phone rang
for a fortnight. 4. I checked with the station – the train is
A came, blew, was raining about to arrive at 7:30
B had come, had been blowing, had a)1,4 b) 2,3 c) 2,4 d) 3,4 e) 1,2
rained
C came, was blowing, had been raining 9. In which of the sentences has the
D was coming, had blown, was raining continuous tense been used with a
different purpose?
5. Choose the correct forms a. What were you thinking about when you
of will and be going to to complete the won the race?
sentences below. b. Lisa was cycling to school when she
1. 1.A: We don’t have any bread. B: saw the accident
Yes, I know. I …… (buy)some. I took c. My boss was constantly phoning me in
some money from your purse. the last job. I hated it.
2. 2A: We don’t have any bread. B: d. I didn’t make the meeting last week; I
Really? I ……some from the shop then. was travelling to Rome
3. 3A: Why do you need to borrow my e. At 4 p.m. last Tuesday, I was working in
suitcase? B: Because I ……..my the office
mother in Scotland next month.
4. 4A: I’m really cold. B: I ……..the 10. Find out the wrongly used variant.
heating on. a) Present tense can be defined as an
5. 5A: What are your plans after you leave expression for an activity that is
university? B: I …………in a hospital currently in action or habitually
in Africa. performed. It is used for a state that
6. Choose the correct variant generally exists or is currently ongoing
1. “be about to” is used to talk about b) Be about to is used to talk about things
things which are going to happen which have already happened
soon c) we use be going to to talk about future
2. “be about to” is used with time plans and intentions. Usually the
expressions decision about the future plans has
3. “be about to” in the past can refer to already been made
things that were going to happen but d) we use used to when we refer to things
didn’t. in the past which are no longer true. It
4. “be about to” in the past can refer to can refer to repeated actions or to state
things that happened in the past or situation.
5. We use “be about to” to talk about
things that are planned to happen at
a certain time
a)1,2,3 b) 1,4,5 c)1,3 d)1,2,5) e) 4,5

7. Choose the correct variant

1. The US delegation is due to arrive on Friday

a) only 1 b) all except 2 c) 1,3 d) none e) 2,3