PASSIVE VOICE

Read the passage and put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive tense.
Blue whale
The blue whale is the largest living creature on Earth. Usually these whales
_____________________ (find) in the cold Artic and Antartic oceans, but in
winter they _________________ (force) to travel to warmer waters for food.
It ______________________ (think) that there were once hundreds of blue
whales, although now only 1,000 survive. During the last century, blue whales
_____________________ (hunt) for food and for whalebone, which
____________________ (use) to make women’s clothing. In 1930, 30,000 blue
whales _________________ (kill) by hunters. Today commercial whaling
____________________ (ban), and it ___________________ (hope) that one
day thousands of blue whales ________________________ (see) in the world’s
oceans again.

TENSES
Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or Past Continuous , then use the
prompts to write questions for the answers,

A man _______________ (recover) in hospital yesterday after

he was attacked by a swan. Alan James ______________ (fish)
at Barchester Lake but __________________ (have) no luck,
so he _________________ (decide) to cast his line elsewhere.
As he ______________ (walk) close to the lake’s edge, the
swan _______________ (rise) from its nest and furiously
_______________ (flap) its wings at Mr James , who
______________ (fall) and __________________ (suffer) a
broken arm as a result of the attack.

1. Where/ Alan James/ fish?

A: ____________________________________
B: At Barchester Lake.
2. What/ decide/ to do?
A: ____________________________________
B: To cast his line elsewhere.
3. Where/ swan/ rise from?
A: _____________________________________
B: Its nest.

Present Perfect vs Past Simple. Match column A to column B.

 A
1. ___ They went to Jamaica...
2. ___ We haven’t spoken... B
3. ___ The Johnsons have abroad since 1999.
been... for a long time.
4. ___ I haven’t travelled... you for ages!
5. ___ Sally! I haven’t seen... last summer.
6. ___ He finished his twice this morning.
homework... to many European countries so far.
7. ___ They have lived here... to James for three weeks.
8. ___ She has called you an hour ago.

Match the time expressions to their uses.

• Ever In aff sentences, to mean ‘at no time

before now’
• Just In questions and negations
• For To show that an action finished only a few
minutes earlier
• Since In questions, to mean ‘at any time before
now’
• Never To express the duration of an action
• Yet To state the starting point

DEFINITE ARTICLE ‘THE’

Fill in the where necessary.
Hamelin is a city in ___ Germany. It is on ___ River Weser and used to be a
market centre. A famous story about a ratcatcher called ___ Pied Piper of
Hamelin is linked to this city. The legend tells ___ story of a ratcatcher who
was not paid for catching ___ rats in ___ city, so he led ___ children away by
playing a magic pipe. The children followed ___ music from ___ pipe and were
nevr seen again. There are many ___ beautiful old biuldings in Hamelin. One is
called ‘___ Ratcatcher’s House’.