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The document provides a comprehensive overview of English language usage related to time, distance, weather, and the use of 'it' and 'there' in sentences. It includes exercises for practicing these concepts, focusing on the correct forms of verbs and sentence structure. Additionally, it covers the use of infinitives and gerunds in various contexts, along with examples and exercises to reinforce learning.

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In Use 33-37

The document provides a comprehensive overview of English language usage related to time, distance, weather, and the use of 'it' and 'there' in sentences. It includes exercises for practicing these concepts, focusing on the correct forms of verbs and sentence structure. Additionally, it covers the use of infinitives and gerunds in various contexts, along with examples and exercises to reinforce learning.

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UNIT 33 it ...

it for time /day / distance /weather

time What time is it?


It's half past ten. (10.30)
It's late.

It's time to go home.

What day is it?


day It's 16 March.
TAR 3 MAR
It's Thursday today.

It's my birthday today.

Bristol?
How faris from London to
it
distance the airport.
It's a long
way from here to
It isn't far.
We can walk home. our village to the
nearest town.
mile It's 20miles from far).
20 it far?)and
negatives (it isn't
* Use far in questions (is
sentences (it's
along way).
Use a longway in positive
isn't raining. Is it snowing?
weather It's raining. It

It rains / snows /
rained / snowed.
/ cloudy /windy / sunny /foggy
/ dark etc.
It's warm / hot /cold /fine

It's a nice day today.

Compare it and there:


- It rains a lot in winter, (rains is a verb)
but There is a
of rain in winter. (rain is a noun)
lot
It was very windy. (windy is an adjective)

but There was a strong wind yesterday. (wind is a noun)

there is and it Is Unit 31

it's nice to ... etc.

easy/ difficult / impossible/ dangerous / safe / stupid


It's /
cheap / expensive /nice lgood /wonderful /terrible to ..
etc.

-|t's nice |to see youagain (it =to see you again)
- It's impossible to understand her. (it =to understand
-It wasn't easy to findyour house. (it her)
=to find your
house)
Don't forget it:
- It'sraining again,(not 'ls raining again.")
-Is it true that you are married?
(not'Istrue that...? )
66
UNIT 33 Exercises

33.1 Put in it It (it's)or It it?

1 What time ....is.it.. ?


2..It's.. raining again.
3 very late. We must go home.
4 cold out?' Yes, put on your coat."
5 true that Bill can fly a helicopter?
6 What day today? Thursday?' 'No, Friday.1
7 .... about three miles from the airport to the city centre.
possible for me to phone you at your office?
9 'Shall we walk to the restaurant?"."| don't know. How far
10 Jack's birthday today. He's 27.
can't come to the party
on Saturday.
11 a pity that Ann
)6789T
12 don't I believe it! impossible!

33.2 Write questions with How far ...? ?


from here to. the airport.
/the airport?)..How.far. it. Washington?
1(here
2 (New York / Washington?) How
3(your house / the
station?)

4 (the hotel / the beach?)

33.3 Putin it or there.

lot in winter.
1..It.. rains a
2There.. was a strong wind yesterday.
3 Look! 's snowing.
isn't any snow.
4 We can't goskiing. wasfine.'
5 'Did ...... rain yesterday?' 'No on the light?
Can you turn
6 's dark in this room. 's going to
rain.
in the sky.
7 ... 's a big black cloud
night. Did you hear it?
last
8 was a storm shop.
here to the nearest
.......'s a long way from
Use it's +(box 1) +to +(box 2).
the sentences.
33.4 Complete
meet people
box 2
dangerous goout alone
box 1 see you again
impossible to sleep
difficult wear save
it's nice wnderetend him
easy stupid

because he speaks very


slowly.

Jill. How areyou?

to. ynderstand.him.
There is always a lot of
noise.
1.It's.easy. at night.
2 at night.
money.
3 .... not safe. hot weather.
4A lot of cities are a well-paid job, warm clothes in

5 youhaven't got
If

6 in this town.
is very friendly 67
7Everybody
UNIT 34 working play/ playing etc.
go/goingg work/
go/work / play etc. (infinitive)os
We use the infinitive (ao I work /play / be etc.) atel:

will Tom Units 23-4


be here tomorrow.
will
shall Shall Iopen the window? Units 23-4
can I can't play tennis. Unit 25
could Could you pass the Unit 25
salt, please?
may May smoke? I Unit 26
might Imight be late tonight. Unit 26
must It's late. I
must go now. Unit 27
should You shouldn't work so hard. Unit 28
would Would you like some coffee? Unit 30

We use the infinitive with do does / did:


/

do Do you
work? Idon't work.
does How much does cost? it

did She doesn't play tennis.


What time did they leave? We didn't sleep very well.
doldoes (present simple) Units 6-7 did (pest simple) Unit 10
to go /to work / to play etc. (to +
We use to..
(to go
infinitive)
/to work / to play /
to be etc.)after:

(I'm)

(1)
want
going

()have (to ..)

(to
(to

...)
...)

|
I'm goingto play

have to go noW.
Everybody has to eat.
tennis tomorrow.
What are you going to do?

Do you want to go out?


Unit

Unit
22

29
They don't want to
(4) would like (to ..) come with us.
I'd like to
be rich. Unit 47
Would you like to go
out?
Unit 30
going / / playing etc.
We use -ingworking
with am / is /are
was / were:
am / islare
was / were + -ing present continuOus
past continuous Unite 3-4,21
Unit 12
-Please be
-Tom working working.
isn't
quiet. I'm

-Whattime are you going out? today.

We didn't go out
-
because it was
What were you doing at raining,
11
o'clock
yesterday
Unit 47 morning?
to...(I want to do) and -ing (l
enjoy doing)

68
UNIT 34 Exercises

34.1 Finish each of these sentences. Write'... phone Jack' or... to phono Jack.

1 "Hphone.Jack. 6Ihave
2I'm going .t9..phone. Jack. 7 You should
3 Can you Jack? 8I want.
4 ShallI 9Imight..
5 l'd like 10 You must
a verb from the box. Sometimes you need the infinitive
34.2 Complete the sentences with

(go / work etc.) and sometimes you need -lng (going / working etc.).

eat / eating get / getting go Igoing


do / doing drive Idriving wait / waiting
rain /raining sloop/slooping stay /staying
listen /listening
watching wear /wearing work/ working
watch /

1 Please be quiet. I'm .working..


very well last night.
21feel tired. Ididn't ..Sleep...
up in the morning?
3 What time do you usually
4 Where are you
..?' To the shop.'
television last night?
5Did you
6 Put up your umbrella. It's the car too fast.
her because she was
7 The police stopped
not ...to it.

8 You can turn off the radio. I'm because they weren't hungry.
anything at home.'
9 They didn't
this evening?' "l'm
10 "What are you only for reading.'
glasses?' 'No,
11 'Does she always for me when I arrived.
12My friends were + (to go / to
etc.), to infinitive
the infinitive (go /open
34.3 Put the correct form. Choose
in
/oponing etc.).
open etc.)or -ing (going

1 Shall |.pen.
the window?
2It's late. Ihave..t9.99..
now. (go)
this week.
(open)

He's on holiday,
(work)

3 Tom isn't ....WOrking.....


out this evening?
(go)
(go)
you want this year?'
4 Do for your holidays
(go)
5 "Where are you to ltaly.'

not sure, but


we may
"We're you. (help) it. (see)
6 l'm afraid I can't (leave)
Youmust tomorrow morning?
good film.
7 It's a really
have (rain)
8 What time you
do this afternoon?
something to eat.
(have)
it will
9
Do you think (study)
physics at
going university,
10 I'm hungry. I'm him. (hear)!
11My brother is Icouldn't minutes, (lie)
very quietly. down for a few for a few minutes, (lie)
12 He spoke Imust down
13 I'm very tired. Ihad this evening?
(go)
14Iwas very tired. out for dinner out. (go)
should
15 Would you like well. Idon't think you
look
16 You don't
UNIT 35 and past tenses
be/ have / do in present

e(am / is /are / was / were)


present continuousand past
-ing

continuous
(cleaning/working / doing eto.)

am / isIare working.
-ing -Please be quiet. I'm
present continuOus - isn't raining at the moment.
It

Units 3-4,21 -What are you doing this evening?

Iwas working when she


arrived.
was / Were -ing
past continuous - It wasn't raining, so we went out.

Unit 12 - What were youdoing at 3 o'clock?

be (am/ is / are / was /were) + past participle (cleaned / made / eaten etc.)
passive

am / islare +
past participle -The room cleaned every day.
is

present passive -Iam never invitedto parties.


Unit 20 -Oranges are imported into Britain.

was /were +past participle -Theroom was cleaned yesterday.


past passive -These houses were built 100 years
ago.
Unit 20 -How was the window broken?

have /has + past participle (cleaned / lost / eaten / been I gone etc.)
present perfect

have / has + past participle -|have cleaned my


present perfect -Tom has lost his room.
Units 15-17 -Barbara hasn'tbeen
passport.
-Where have they gone?Canada. to

do /
does / did + infinitive (clean/ like /
eat / go etc.)
present simple and past simple -
negatives and questions

do Idoes + infinitive -\like coffee


present simple negatives -Tom doesn'tbut Idon't like tea
and questions Units 6-7 -What do yousmoke.
-Does Barbarausually do at weekends?
live
alone?
did + infinitive -\ watch
past simple negatives - didn't
It didn't TV
and questions Unit 10 -What time did week.
yesterday.
rain last

Barbara go out?
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UNIT 35 Exercises

35.1 Put in is are / do does.


/ | you working tomorrow?
1 Do.... you clean your teeth every day? Alice work on Saturdays?
2Where ..9re... they going? this word mean?
10 What
3Why you looking at me? you going out?
11 What time
4 Bill live in London? go out?
12What time you usually
5 you like dancing?
13 it raining?
the sun shining? you feeling all right?
14
7 What time the shops close?
sentences are negative.
don't /doesn't,All these
35.2 Put in am not / isn't / aren't /

1 Tom ....
doesn't.. smoke.
moment.
2 It........sn.t....... raining at the
want to go out this evening.
3| evening.
4 | ...going out this
working this week.
5 George watch television
very often.
6My parents party next week.
coming to the
Tom and Ann
7 speak a foreign language. please?
8 Barbara you say that again,
understand. Can
9I'm sorry, I...... I watching it.
turn off the television.
10You can
has.
were/ did /have /
35.3 Put in was she go?
/
8What time
shoes made? 9 What she wearing yesterday?
1 Where
...Were..your this road
built?
last night? 10 When
Did... you go out they go home
early?
2 doing at 10.30? 11 Why
.....
married?
3 What you
he buy his neW
Coat?
12 How long
they been
4Where see Jim last night?
she born? 13........you
5Where ever seen a ghost?
you born? 14 .......you
6 Where

7 ..... Chris gone home?


/ were /have /has.
in is /are /was
35.4 Put
into Britain.
..4re..imported
Oranges lost his passport.
1
2 Joe ....has... from sand.
made youlike some?
3Glass coffee. Would
4 |
madesome built ten
years ago.
day.
shopping centre cleaned every
5This town
6The streets in this your work? time ago.
7 you finished a holiday. taken a long
to ltaly for
8 Jill gone They
old photographs. just arrived.
very They
9
These are
and Linda are
here.
born in France.
10 George but she pronounced?
11She's Italian word ...
tell me
how this

12 Can you
verbs
UNIT 36 and irregular
Regular
-ed:
Past simple and past participle verbs is study
studied
of regular
The past simple and past participle painted
lived paint
clean cleaned live

past simple ( Unit 9):

-lcleaned my shoesyesterday.
at university.
-Charlie studied engineering

perfect andthe passive.


We use the past paticiple for the present
perfect have /has past +
particjple ( Units 15-1/):

Dresent
-Ihave cleaned my shoes.
-Joan has lived in London for ten years.

> Unit 20):

passive be (am /is are was / were) + past participle


= / /

These rooms are cleaned every day.


- My car was repaired last week.

Irregular verbs
past participle of irreqular verbs
are not -ed:
The past simple and

make break cut

past simple made broke cut


past participle made broken cut

Sometimes the past simple and past participle are the same. For example:

make find buy cut

past simple made found bought cut


past participle made found bought cut

-Imade acake yesterday. (past simple)


-|have made some coffee, (past participle- presentperfect)
-Butter is made from milk, (past participle- present passive)

Sometimes the past simple and past participle are


different. For example:
break know begin go
past simple broke knew began went
past participle broken known begun gone
- Somebody broke this window last
night. (past
- Somebody has broken this window. simple)
(past participle
- This window was broken last
night. (past present perfect)
-
participle -
past
passive)
Appendix 1 Ust of irregular. verds
Appendix 2 Irregular
verbs In
groups
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UNIT 36 Exercises

36.1 Write the past simple/pastparticiple of these verbs. (The past simple and past participle
are the same for all the verbs in this
exercise.)

1 make .made 6 sit ... 11 hear


2 cut ..9ut 7 leave 12 cost
3 get 8 build 13 catch
4 think. 9 put 14 lose
5 pay 10buy 15 understand

30.2 Write the past simple and past participle of these verbs.

1break broke broken 6 run 11 take


2begin 7 speak 12 go
3 eat 8write 13 know
4 drink 9 come 14 throW
10 15 forget
5give drive

30.3 Put the verb into the right form.

washed
11..%9 ..my hands because they were dirty. (wash)
2 Somebody has broken...this window. (break)
3| feel good. very welil last night. (sleep)
I
4 We a very good film
yesterday, (see)

5 It a lot when we were on holiday, (rain)


it? (see)
6 I've my bag. (lose) Have you
week. (steal)
7 George's bicycle was last

early because I was tired.


(go)
81 to bed

9 Have you your book yet? (finish)


..... about 20years ago.
(build)
10 These houses were
was 18. (learn)
11 Ann to drive when she
in my life.
(ride)
a horse
12l've never my leg. (fall/ hurt)
off my bicycle and
13 Yesterday I......
of mine. I've ..
her a long time. (know)
form.past
14 She's agood friend
the list. Put the verb
into the correct

sentences with a verb from


these
30.4 Complete
participle. swim wake
simple or past sell speak
tell

Reke meet
cost drive fly

you like some?


sorne coffee. Wouldhis wife.
1|have..made.. never the night.
21 know Gary but
I've
in the middle of
up by a loud noise tothe other side.
3 We were .....
...
into the river and in the Philippines.
4 She jumped languages are expensive hotel.
we stayed in an
5Many different .....a lot of money because
car?
6 Our holiday avery fast
very quickly.
7 Have you ever concert were
the
8 All the tickets for John about your new job?while we were having our dinner.
9 Have you the open window 75
in through
10 A bird.........
UNIT 37 l am /|don't etc.

Do you Smoke?

Yes, Ido. No, Idon't.


I'm nt

Iaum.

She isn't tired but he is. He smokes she doesn't.


but
(he is = he is tired) (she doesn't =she doesn't smoke)

am / is/ are was /were have /has do /does / did

can will must may might would should

We use these verbs with other verbs (am going / has seen /can't come etc.) but you
can also use them alone:
-Ihaven't got a car but my sister has. (=my sister has got a car)
-"Pleasehelp me.' I'm sorry, Ican't.' (=lcan't help
you)
-'Are you tired?' 'Iwas, but I'm not now.' (=I was tired but I'm not tired now.)
-
'Doyouthink Ann will come? 'She might.".(= She might come.)
-
'Are you going now?'Yes, I'm afraid I must.'(- must go)
I
You can use these verbs in this way with Yes ... and No
-
'ls it raining?' Yes, it is. / No,
isn't.'
-
"Have you ever been to Canada?'
it

Yes, have. / No, I


haven't.'
I
"WillAlan be here tomorrow?'
Yes, he will./ No, he won't.'
Use do l does for the present simple:
-Idon't like
-She works veryweather
hotbut Sue does. (= Sue likes hot
weather)
hard butldon't. (=ldon't
work very hard)
'Doyou enjoy your work?' Yes, I do.'

Use did for the past simple:


-'Did youand John enjoy the film?' "I
did but John didn't.'
(- lenjoyed it but John didn't
enjoy it.)
-"Did it rain yesterday?' 'No, it didn't.'
You cannot use the short
forms 'm |'s/
'rel 've /'Il at the end of
forms am /is Iare / have / a sentence. Use the
will etc.:

-'Are you tired? Yes, Iam.' (not'Yes, full

I'm.')

74
UNIT 37 Exercises

37.1 Complete these sentences with do / does / did.


1 don't like hot weatherbut Sue ...does...
2You don'tknow John very well but

I
31didn't enjoy the party but my friends
4Idon't want to go out this evening but Peter
5Ann doesn't smoke but all her friends
6 My mother doesn't wear glasses
but my father

37.2 Complete these sentences with don't/ doesn't / didn't.

1 Sue likes weather but |...don't..


hot

2| like football but my brother


go out last night but Jan
3Iwanted to
4 Kate lives in London but her parents
work hard but the manager
5The workers in the factory
Tom
6Val played
tennis last weekend but
time (is /have /can
etc.).

Use only one verb each


sentences.
37.3 Complete these

1 Kay wasn't
hungry but we ...Were...
parents but
2 You haven't met Jack's
I
his friends
3 Bill can'tdrive but all

you
4 I'm not intelligent butparty tomorrow night but George
the
5I'm not going
to
very big but the
garden
6 Their house wasn'tbut Philip and Joy
7Iwasn't very tired
here tomorrow
but |
8 Diana won't bebut mybrother who
91
|
don't smoke
10 haven't got
a video camera but Iknow somebody

with a negative
verb (isn't / haven't
/can't etc.).

Complete these sentences


37.4 ..cant...
piano but
I

can play the


1 My sister my house
is big but
2 Tom's housetomorrow but Chris
3 1I be here
seen the film
but lan
the other man
4 I've already a coat but
was wearing
5 One of the men morning but James
early this but
6lgot up
I

are going out tonight


7 My friends television a lot but I
watches / No, I'm not
Ihave
etc.

8 Julia Use Yes,


about yourself.
these questions chocolate?
like
37.5 Answer 6 Do you in Paris tomorrow?
Im nt.. 7 Will you be played tennis?
1Are you
British?...No.. 8 Have you ever yesterday?
2Have yougot a car? 9Did you buy anythingEurope?
borri in
3Is it raining?well? 10 Were you
75
4 Do youfeel
5Are you tired?

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