Build-Built, built

Break-broke, broken

Wear-wore, worn

Cut-cut, cut

Speak-spoke, spoken

Understand-understood, understand

Write-wrote, written

Do-did, done

Practice-practiced, practiced

Become-became, become

Fill the gaps with the correct tenses

1. Bewley’s (be) is an old Irish tea house chain.
2. The history of the famous Bewley’s Oriental Cafés (begin) began in 1835 when Charles Bewley (import) imported over 2000 chests of tea directly from the Chinese province of Canton to Dublin.
3. It (not / look) does not look  like a great deal today, but back then it (be) was a coup: no man before (dare) had dared  to import tea directly into Ireland.
4. Bewley’s initiative (put) put an end to the East India Trading Company’s tea monopoly which before 1835 (force) forced the Irish to import their tea from London.
5. Samuel Bewley’s son Joshua also (become) became a tea merchant.
6. Like his father, he (import) imported  tea into Ireland.
7. The Irish (like) liked  the idea of not having to import old tea from London.
8. A tea expert (notice) noticed that even the poorest Irish people (buy) bought only the finest tea.
9. By the end of the 19th century a tea culture (develop) had developed in Ireland.
10. In 1894, Joshua’s son Ernest Bewley (want) wanted to stimulate the market for a product that (be) had been rather unknown that far: coffee.
11. In the back of his shop in Dublin’s George’s Street, he (begin) began to run coffee making demonstrations.
12. His wife (bake) baked scones to go with the coffee, and the couple soon (find out) found out that their idea (be) was extremely popular among customers.
13. That (mark) marked the beginning of the first Bewley’s Oriental Café.
14. In Dublin’s Grafton Street, Ernest Bewley (open) opened another Bewley’s Oriental Café in 1927, on which he (spend) had spent nearly 60,000 Pound.
15. Still now the interior furnishings and wonderful stain glass (provide) provide a very special oriental flair.
16. During World War II, Bewley’s (must restrict) had to restrict the supply of tea to an ounce per head, and many customers (switch) switched  to coffee.
17. Today, Bewley’s (be) is Ireland’s leading supplier of quality coffees and teas.
18. It (create) has created a catering service for larger customers such as Trinity College and it (open) has opened cafés in book stores and Dublin Airport.
19. Bewley’s Clipper Gold Tea and Espresso Prima (win) have won Gold Awards in the London Great Taste Awards.

Choose from the following prepositions at, by, for, from, in, on, with and complete the sentences.

1. Where do you come from    ?
2. My cousin lives   in   Norway.
3. They are walking on   the bridge.
4. I don’t like flying, so I went to Paris by   bus.
5. You can stay    with  me tonight.
6. My birthday is  on   29th February.
7. I’ll see you at   Christmas.
8. Put the books on the table, please.
9. I haven’t seen you  for   ages.
10. I like this house   by   the river.

Use the verbs in brackets to complete the sentences. Use the correct tense.
1. When I  (look) looked or was looking out of the window, I  (see) saw John.
2. Have you ever  (play) played the piano since you left school?
3. I  (not see) didn’t seen him for two days.
4. When he  (try) was trying to open the door, he  (drop) dropped his key.
5. They  (live) lived in this house since 1987.
6. My father  (wash) washed his car while my mother and I  (prepare) were preparing dinner.
7. Did you  (meet) met her yesterday?
8. Mary  (be) has been in London for three days.
9. The headmaster  (enter) entered the classroom when they  (write) were writing their exams.
10. He  (buy) bought a new car last week.
11. I think that they  (arrive) will arrive tomorrow morning.
12. Last Wednesday they  (play) played chess after they  (do) had done their homework.

Choose the correct pronouns to complete the sentences.

1. The old woman lived alone, with —- to look after —-.

A) someone / her
B) anyone / herself
C) everyone / she
D) no one / her
E) anyone / she’s
2. —- two rings here on my little finger belonged to —- grandmother.

A) These / my
B) That / mine
C) Those / me
D) The / myself
E) This / my
3. When the little boy grabbed the lizard, —- tail broke off in —- hand.

A) it’s / his
B) it / him
C) its / his
D) it / one’s
E) its / he’s

4. A baby learns the meaning of words as —- are spoken by others and later uses —- in sentences.

A) their / they
B) they / them
C) they / themselves
D) it / them
E) they / it
5. Some of these clothes are —-, and the rest of —- belong to Zack.

A) yours / it
B) my / them
C) hers / their
D) me / they
E) mine / them

6. As for —-, I prefer to let people make up —- minds.

A) myself / each other’s
B) I / his own
C) mine / one another’s
D) me / their own
E) my / theirs
7. The solicitor wrote a letter to Ann and —- in which he asked us if we could settle the matter between —-.

A) I / us
B) me / us
C) myself / ours
D) mine / our
E) me / we
8. As —- cuts it as well as he does, I always have my hair cut at Johnson’s.

A) anyone
B) someone else’s
C) no one else
D) everyone
E) nobody’s
9. They decided to buy the house because —- location would allow —- to get to work very easily.

A) theirs / them
B) it / themselves
C) its / them
D) they / us
E) its / their
10. Our dog is of a very good breed as —- is the offspring of two very champion dogs and inherited —- features.

A) this / its
B) he / them
C) she / theirs
D) that / his
E) it / their

 Complete the following exercise with adjective or adverb form of the words.

1. That pitbull looks angry. (angry)

2. She spoke quietly. (quiet)

3. Erica listened to her mother carefully. (careful)

4. Mary makes careless mistakes. (careless)

5. Children grow quickly. (quick)

6. He is very happy today. (happy)

7. It’s raining heavily. (heavy)

8. Morgan was seriously hurt in a car accident. (serious)

9. His situation was very serious. (serious)

From an early age Rachel Carson could be faund looking at birds, bugs, and fish. She was born in 1907 and grew up on a Pennsylvania farm. She got her master’s in zoology at Johns Hopkins University, but when her father died, Rachel decided against getting a doctorate so she could instead support her family. She became the second woman to work at US Bureau of Fisheries, writing radio scripts abut sea creatures. When she wasn’t at her government job she did personal writing about wildlife. Rachel’s poetic writing allowed her reach people in all walks of life. Her first book, ,Under the Sea Wind, got little attention ,but her next book , The Sea Around US, became a sensation! She won the National Book, the Award and quit her job to write The Edge of the sea. In 1950’s the US government and private industry started to blindly overuse the pesticide DDT. We now know that DDT is highly toxic and that large doses can cause liver damage and seizures. DDT was being used everywhere , from the bug spray you’d use at picnics to all of our crops-but it killed more then just pests. Rachel Carson died in 1964.

I think I have a sense of humor. I spend my fun time with my friends.I think it is right to say that laughter is the best medicine․There are times in life when I laugh at myself․There is a saying that if a person laughs at everything, it means that he is alone.I’m not ashamed to laugh out loud․In my language there are expressions like this “I nearly died laughing“ or “don’t make me laugh“. Which mean that someone did or said something, that make you laugh so hard, and you say I nearly died laughing or don’t make me laugh.I like funny peoplebecause it is easy to find language with them