Exercise 4. Read the following text and ask questions.

Police Kill Man Who Shot 5 at Law Firm

A 63-year-old Baptist deacon shot five people in a law office. A special police unit entered the building and shot John Ashley to death after he opened fire. The police said the shooting was “a possible dispute over a divorce settlement”.

The shooting incident astonished people who knew Ashley personally. All his friends and neighbours knew him as a nice and friendly person, who loved his family and was always ready to help.

1. What ____________________________________________

2. How old __________________________________________

3. Where ___________________________________________

4. Why

5. ________________________________________________

Exercise 5. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect simple or the past simple.

1. They ……….. (travel) to Paris two years ago.

2. He ……….. (not be) to the office since last week.

3. Last month he …………. (leave) for Warsaw, and no one …….. (see) him since then.

4. The court ………….. (not take a decision) yet.

5. They ……… already ……… (discuss) all the details of the contract.

6. She ………. (move) to London in 2010 to begin work as a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.

7. She ……………. (write) chapters for several high-profile books on international law.

8. When he …….. (study) at St. Hugh's College of Oxford, he…………. (receive) the prestigious Shrigley Award given for excellence in law studies.

9. Yesterday the US Supreme Court …………. (reverse) this decision.

Exercise 6. Correct the mistakes.

a. We have bought a new car last moth.
b. Jim lives in England for two years.
c. My mother has went shopping.
d. She is just moved house.
e. Robert has do his homework.
f. I am at work since ten o’clock.
g. They have seen this film yesterday.
h. We haven’t yet read this book.
i. How long you work here?
j. When have you saw him last time?

Past Continuous

Positive

I /He/ She/ It

was

doing

You/ We/ They

were

doing

Negative

I /He/ She/ It

was not (wasn’t)

doing

You/ We/ They

were not (weren’t)

doing

Questions

Was

I /he/ she/ it

doing

Were

you/ we/ they

doing

Use	Example
1. We use the past continuous to talk about an action that was in progress at a specific time in the past.	At two o’clock yesterday he was negotiating the terms of a contract with his partners.
2. We use the past continuous to talk about two actions that were in progress at the same time in the past. In this case, we use while with the past continuous.	He was listening carefully while he was explaining his behaviour.
3. We use the past continuous to give the background information in a story.	It was raining. John was driving his old truck through the forest. It was getting dark.
Time expressions
While, when, as, all day / night / morning, etc.

Exercise 7. Match Column A with Column B.

Column A	Column B
1. While I was walking home	a. while he was trying to steal a car.
2. At four o’clock yesterday evening	b. the criminal escaped.
3. They arrested him	c. as he was walking in the garden
4. As he was giving evidence	d. he was running a seminar on Family Law.
5. He lost his key	e. they heard a strange noise.
6. While they were talking	f. I met Peter.

Exercise 8. Join the sentences using as, when or while.

1. She was walking in the park. Someone attacked her.

2. He was talking on the phone. Two men entered the room.

3. He was examining the fact. The police found new evidence.

4. He felt nervous. The judge was asking him questions.

5. They saw nothing unusual. They were walking down the street.

Exercise 9. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous.

1. I ……………. (eat) my lunch when the telephone ……….. (ring).

2. We …………… (see) a bad accident as we ………… (drive) to the airport.

3. He ……….. (ride) his bicycle to school when he ……….. (drop) his bag.

4. When Erick …….. (get) home he ………….. (see) that someone ………… (try) to open the door.

Past Perfect

Positive

I /He/ She/ It

You/ We/ They

Had done

Negative

I /He/ She/ It

You/ We/ They

Had not (hadn’t) done

Questions Had

I /he/ she/ it

you/ we/ they

done

Use	Example
1. We use the past perfect to talk about something that happened before a certain time in the past.	The meeting had finished by 6 o’clock.
2. We use the past perfect for the action which happened first and the past simple for the action which happened later.	They had arrived by the time we left.
Time expressions
We often use these time expressions with the past perfect: by, already, after, just	Diana phoned after I had come home. I had just finished my report when Matt phoned.

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