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(1)Exercise 1: Supply the verbs in parentheses in the correct tense: Mai often (stay) _ at home on Sundays
2 I never (get) up late
3 She usually (go) _ the zoo with her parents Tam (watch) _ TV every evening
5 (You do) _ your homework in the evening? Look! The boys (play) in the rain I (read) a magazine at the moment Tom and I (talk) cheerfully now What (you do) _ at present?
10 Listen! The birds (sing) beautifully on the trees 11 I (just buy) _ a new bicycle
12 (You ever be) to Hanoi before? 13 My uncle (go) to Dalat many times
14 Her family (live) in Hoc Mon since 1980
15 The eighth-form pupils (already know) _ one another 16 My father (work) _ for that company 10 years ago
17 Tony often (swim) _ in this river when he was young 18 (You stay) _ at home yesterday? 19 Last Sunday we (help) _ our father work in the garden 20 Long ago men (use) _ wood and bamboos to build houses 21 Tom (do) his homework at PM yesterday
22 We (talk) about our English between and yesterday 23 I (read) “The story of Kieu” all the evening last Sunday 24 (You stay) at home and (do) your exercises at PM yesterday? 25 My father (work) for that company for 10 years Exercise 2.: Read the paragraph and as requested below
Mrs Harris lives in a small village in the countryside Her husband is dead, but she has one son He is twenty-one, and his name is Geoff He worked in the shop in the city and lived there Its name was Greensea It was quite a long way from his mother’s village and she was not happy about this, but Geoff said: “ There isn’t any good work for me in the country, Mother, and I can get a lot of money in Greensea and send you some every week”
Mrs Harris was very angry last Sunday She got in a train and went to her son’s house in Greensea Then she said to him: “Geoff, why you never phone me?”
Geoff laughed “But, Mother”, he said, “you haven’t got a phone” “No”, she answered, “ I haven’t but you’ve got one”
Write True or False in the blank
1 Mrs Harris’s husband was dead ……… Geoff got less money in Greensea ……… Geoff’s mother had a phone ……… Geoff never phoned his mother ……… Geoff didn’t love his mother ………
Answer these questions Where did Mrs Harris live?
……… Where did her son work and live?
……… Was Mrs Harris happy about this?
……… What did Mrs Harris last Sunday?
……… Why did Geoff never phone his mother?