1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:
Tom Wilson 1) ....
i
s
....
(be) an explorer. He 2) ...has been...(be) to nearly every country
in the world, but the most exciting time he 3) ...has ever had.... (ever/have) was when h
e
4) ...went... (go) to the Congo jungle. A magazine 5)...(had) asked... (ask) him to
retrace the route of a famous explorer who 6) ...had disappeared.... (disappear) in the
1920's. As he 7) ...was following....(follow) a small river he got separated from his guides.
He 8) ......went on.... (go on) alone, hoping he 9) ...would find..... (find) them, but instead
he 10) ...encountered... (encounter) a group of natives. He 11) ...stayed.... (stay) with
them for several days and 12) ......found out.. (find out) that a very o
l
d woman
13) ...
had actually met...(actually/meet) the famous explorer. She 14) ...knew... (know)
how he 15) ......had died....(die). Tom 16) ......became....(become) very friendly with the
natives and now he 17) ...is planning... (plan) to go back and see them again. He is sure
they 18) ...
will welcome.....(welcome) him back.
2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:
When Francis Lee was a boy he 1) ....wanted..... (want) to be an astronaut. He
2) ...was watching...(watch) TV one day in 1969 when he 3) ......saw.... (see) Neil
Armstr
ong walk on the moon. Since then he 4) ...has always dreamt... (always/dream) of
doing the same. Every night when there is a full moon, he 5)...stares..... (stare) up at it for
hours and 6) ...imagines... (imagine) himself walking around on it. At the moment,
howe
ver, he 7) ...is working....(work) as a night
-
watchman at a meat factory. He 8) ...has
been doing.... (do) the same job since he left school fifteen years ago, but he still hopes
that one day his dream 9) ...will come... (come) true. He 10) ...has heard...... (hear) that
in the 21
st
century they 11) ...will sell/will be selling...... (sell) tickets to fly to the moon. For
this reason he 12) ...has been saving...(save) half of his wages every month for the past
two years.
3. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:
Sue Thomas is a fashion designer. She 1) ... has been making.... (make) clothes ever
since she 2) ...was....(be) a young girl. She 3) ...got.... (get) her first job in a clothes
factory when she was sixteen. She 4) ...was sewing... (sew) buttons onto a shirt o
ne
day when she 5)...had... (have) a brilliant idea for a design
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After she 6) ...had spoken....
(speak) to her bank manager, she got a loan and she 7) ...opened...(open) her own little