Главная Случайная страница Контакты | Мы поможем в написании вашей работы! | ||
|
Grammar Revision: Tenses
Exercise 3. Match the sentences with the tenses and translate the sentences.
1. I am picking up our business partners at the station at 7 o'clock tonight. | a) Present Simple (timetables/programmes) |
2. People see, interpret and evaluate things in different ways. | b) Present Continuous (actions which will take place in the near future due to one's previous decision; fixed arrangements in the near future) |
3. She has been a member of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research for over 10 years. | c) Present Simple (recurrent or permanent actions in the present) |
4. Сross-cultural training is becoming more important as the business world takes on even more of a global focus. | d) Present Perfect (personal experiences or changes which have happened; actions which happened within a specific time period which is not over at the time of speaking; recently completed actions with visible results in the present) |
5. The ferry arrivesat 10:00 am. | e) Present Continuous (actions taking place at or around the moment of speaking; going on at the present period, in temporary situations, in changing or developing situations) |
6. Eilidh Hamilton, who has recently been living in Syria in the Middle East, speaks on two very different ways of business behaviour. | f) Present Perfect Continuous (an action which began before the moment of speaking and continues into it or up to it; an action which was in progress quite recently and affects the present situation, explains or gives reasons for the state of things at the present moment) |
7. They were still discussing the plan at midnight. | g) Past Continuous (a past action in progress interrupted by another past action) |
8. They were flying over the Andes when the storm began. | h) Past Simple (a complete action or event which happened at a stated time in the past; a succession of actions in the past) |
9. They had been living in the same house for twelve years before they decided to move. | i) Past Perfect (a past action which occurred before another past action or before a stated time in the past) |
10. Kate founded the website Culturosity.com to help build awareness of cultural differences. | j) Past Continuous (an action in the middle of happening at a stated past time) |
11. She had finished most of the work by the time her boss arrived. | k) Past Perfect Continuous (an action continuing over a period up to a specific time in the past) |
12. The ability to work across cultures will become a prerequisite for future generations working in our increasingly global world. | l) Future Perfect (an action which will be finished before a stated future time) |
13. By May, he will have been living abroad for six years. | m) Future Continuous (an action in progress at a stated future time; an action which the speaker expects to take place in the future in the natural course of events) |
14. If your meeting is face-to-face and you will be traveling abroad, go at least two days before your scheduled meeting. | n) Future Perfect Continuous (duration of an action up to a certain time in the future) |
15. They will have made a decision by Friday. | o) Future Simple (predictions for the future, hopes, fears, offers, promises, on-the-spot decisions) |
Дата публикования: 2014-11-02; Прочитано: 936 | Нарушение авторского права страницы