English Grammar with Kudjo. Понятная и забавная грамматика для детей и взрослых. Part 2

9 They /settle/ in one of the cosiest caves and /lay/ an egg very soon.

EXERCISE 7

Change the sentences using the tense in brackets:

For example,

He is taking a nap now. / Past Continuous/ – He was taking a nap when the smell of roast meat woke him up.

1 They have been chasing squirrels and look wet and tired./Past Perfect Continuous/

2 He has just finished his breakfast. /Past Simple/.

3 They have seen the best planet in the Universe./Past Perfect/

4 He is trying to hide his tears.

5 Who has been playing with my ball? /Past Perfect Continuous/

6 They didn’t like eating spinach when they were little./used to/

7 He doesn’t understand why the dog is barking at him. /Past Continuous/

8 He has been to many different places. /Past Perfect/

9 They are listening to a story about dragons now. /Past Perfect Continuous/

EXERCISE 8

Find and correct mistakes in 7 sentences.

1 He use to sleep with all his toys so as not to offend any of them.

2 Kudjo was sweating. He had been running after his pet.

3 Kudjo were running and jumping around a tree when I saw him.

4 The sandwich mysteriously disappeared before Kudjo returned to the room.

5 They played Monopoly when a loud knock on the door frightened them.

6 They had been knowing each other for ten months when they quarrelled for the first time.

7 Kudjo was hiding under the bed when Dradjo looked for him.

8 His paw was bleeding, he had been cutting it badly.

9 He had been waiting for an hour before Kudjo finally looked at him and said «Hello’.

EXERCISE 9

Kudjo is texting a message to Chilly. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past, present and future tenses:

1 Sorry. I /not be/ in touch for long. I /not be/ busy. I /feel/ upset.

2 Dradjo /take/ the final decision. He /leave/ me soon.

3 I /understand/ him. He /want/ to live with his real mum and dad on the planet with other dragons.

4 I hope one day I /visit/ him there.

5 Yesterday when we /talk/ about it, he /begin/ crying but /pretend/ that he /get/ something in his eye.

6 At that moment I /have/ something in my eye too and /regret/ that we /go/ to that cave and /find/ that spaceship.

7 All evening I /try/ to find any arguments to get him to stay here until I /realise/ that it was wrong.

8 Today I /not think/ so.