Home assignment (Present Simple/ Present Continuous/ Present Perfect)

Home assignment

1) Put the verbs in brackets into Present Perfect.

1. We just … (meet) an American actor.

2. Your husband … (sell) the house?

3. I … (not start) my new job yet.

4. You … (be) to New York before?

5. Ann … (not choose) the dessert yet.

6. They … (do) the shopping today.

7. Tom … ever (visit) Disneyland?

8. I just … (see) a horror film.

9. She … (not find) her coat.

10. The cat already … (eat up) the fish.

2) Make up sentences, using Present Perfect as in the example: (you / ever / be / to Italy) - Have you ever been to Italy?

1. You ever / be / to South America?

2. He / read / any English books?

3. They/ live / in this town all your life?

4. How many times / you / be / in love?

5. What's / the most beautiful country / he /ever / visit?

6. They ever / speak / to a famous person?

7. She/ buy/ any new clothes?

8. He/ watch/ an interesting movie?

9. How long/ you/know/Jack?

3) Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

(Present Simple/ Present Continuous/ Present Perfect)

Jason Peters (1) .................. (be) a wildlife
cameraman. He (2) ...................... (film) wild animals
for documentary programmes on TV. For fifteen years,
as part of his job, he (3)....................... (explore) the
world's jungles and rain forests. Snakes
(4).................. (bite) him more times than he can
remember and alligators (5)....................... (attack) him,
too. At the moment he (6)............. (prepare) to
go back to the Amazon. He (7)................ (love)
filming there but another reason is that his girlfriend,
Carmen, (8)....................... (live) in Manaus, near the
Amazon. Peter and Carmen (9)........................... (work)
together when they can. They (10)................ (film)
in Venezuela several times. While they were there,
they lived with the Matis Indians. 'The Matis
(11) ........................... (eat) monkeys,' says Jason 'but they
(12)................................... (not eat) some animals which are
part of their religion. At the moment I
(13).................. (study) them and the Amazon
people and I (14) ................................ (try) to compare the
two. I (15) ................... (find) books about the
Amazon people to help me but there's nothing about
the Matis. I'll have to write something myself!'