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Topic 1    Exercise 1   -  4

1．live         2.  do  not have   3.  have   4.  use     5.  jump     6  have    7  oozes  

8  helps     9  enables        10  enable       11  pull        12  closes     13  produces

14  has         15  is looking       16   has caught     17  thinks     18  has bought

19  is  writing        20  are running

Exercise 2

1   has     2  sells     3  arranges    4  is arranging     5  has arranged    6  has ordered

7  like      8  tries / has tried    9  is     10  are   11  are     12  enjoy     13  buy

14  helps     15  is     16  is  talking  17  is  explaining   

Exercise 3

1  sells     2  are      3  are     4  is selling     5  has sold     6  helps     7  pays    

8  has earned     9  tries      10  uses     11  has saved     12  wants     13  is

14  smiles     15  is smiling     16  is telling     17  says     18  does not cost    

19  brings     20  thinks     21  enjoys     22  is    23  owns     24  has employed    

25  pays   26  has told

Exercise  4

1  has     2  has bought     3  likes    4  owns     5  is     6  is looking     7  is helping

8  has learnt     9  knows   10  is     11 studies     12  wants   13  have promised

14  has studied  / has been studying

Topic  2     Exercise 5 – 8

Exercise 5

1  went     2  set     3  were     4  packed / had packed     5  was     6  took

7  got     8  sang/ were singing    9 playing     10  drove / was driving   11  took

12  were     13  looked      14  carried   15  prepared / had prepared

16  spread   17  put     18  changed     19  ran    20  built / had built

21  was building     22  was walking      23  was collecting     24  had collected 

25  was     26  was playing     27  was running     28  were watching     29  were playing

Exercise  6

1  was     2  had     3  went     4  taught     5  had    6  strolled / were strolling

7  washed     8  made     9  was     10  fell     11  yawned  /  was yawning

12  listened / was listening     13  was dozing       14  drove / was driving

15  was     16  were     17  welcomed     18  shouted / were shouting

Exercise  7

1   celebrated / was celebrating     2  was     3  decorated / had decorated      

4  helped  /  had helped     5  bought  / had bought     6  purchased / had purchased

7  got     8  prepared     9  slaughtered     10  came   11  made     12   furnished 

13  was    14  cooked / had cooked      15  made  . had made   16  was 

17  steamed / had steamed      18  was 

Exercise 8

1  took     2  changed     3  plaited     4  looked     5  arrived / had arrived

6  brought / had brought     7  welcomed     8  started     9  were singing   10  made

11  blew     12  clapped     13  cut     14  distributed     15  enjoyed     16  invited

17  took     18  could      19  tasted     20 ate     21  had     22  had     23  gave    

24  liked     25  ended     26  helped     27  left

Exercise 19 -26

Exercise 19                                                                                                   10

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb.

          Hed is so fat.  He ________ (1. know) it.  But he _________ (2. feel) humiliated whenever anyone ___________ (3. call) him ‘Fatty Hed’.  He hates it.  He ___________

(4. find) it hard to swallow being teased in that way.

          Once he always _________ (5. try) to catch those for teasing him.  But they all __________ (6. run) really fast for him to catch and teach them a lesson.  He found that he __________ (7. be) soon out of breath after he ________________ (8. run) for just a few metres.  Very often more and more seem to join in teasing him.  It turned out to be like a game called ‘Catch me if you can’. Many times, he almost _____________ (9. break) down and cried his heart out but his pride somehow  ___________ (10. help) him to hold back his tears.

          When Ned, Hed’s mum found out the problem he _________ (11. face) in school. She _________ (12. tell) him just to ignore them.  However, if they ___________ (13. go) out of bound, he should seek help from his form teacher, Madam Lee.  At the same time, Ned __________ (14. advise) him to eat less bread and exercise more.  She also told Hed to bring a story book to read to keep himself occupied or to read out loud so that he would not be upset by those unkind people around.  She told Hed to sing a song or two to ward off those naughty schoolmates.  Ned, Hed’s mum always told him that he had a beautiful voice.  It ___________       (15. take) Hed some time to tackle the problem.  The methods _________ (16. prove) to be very effective.

          A few months ago while Hed _____________ (17. read) his favourite book called “Alice in the Wonderland”, his naughtiest classmate, Frankie _____________ (18. approach) him.  He ____________ (19. be) curious about the book.  Hed told him the story excitedly.  Frankie ____________ (20. apologise) to Hed for teasing him.  Hed just ____________ (21. smile) shyly.

         

Exercise 20

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb.

          Hed has already read the book, ‘Alice in Wonderland ’ three times.  He _____________ (1. read) the book now.  He almost _______ (2. read) it every day .  If he __________ (3. finish) reading the book again, he _______________ (4. read) it four  times.  Then he __________ (5. lend) the book to Ozee.  She likes the book very much and would like to read on her own.  She ___________ (6. ask) at least three times about when she can get the book to read.  Hed ________ (7. tell) her yesterday that she most probably would get it on Friday this week.  Actually, Oyee, Ozee’s sister also _________ (8. get) a different adaption of the book.  It is a bit too hard for Ozee to read.  Olly, her mother actually ____________ (9. try) to look around for the same adaption of the book.  But so far she has not found one geared to Ozee’s English level.

          Nowadays, there ________ (10. be) more and more friends joining in the circle to listen to Hed telling stories from different books during recess.  Nobody _________ (11. dare) to tease him anymore for fear of being barred from listening to his story-telling.  Ned, Hed’s mum ________ (12. be) very proud of him as he has dealt with his problem tactfully. 

          At the same time, he really ________ (13. try) hard to eat less bread and he

____________ (14. exercise) whenever he can.  Yesterday, he __________ (15. walk) at least 2 kilometres.  When he _____________ (16. walk) for a kilometre, he suffered pangs of hunger.  Somehow, he ___________ (17. endure) it and he felt good after it.

Exercise 21                                                                                                   11

Give the different tenses with the given word ‘Study’.

          Tina cannot go to the park now. She _______________ (1) English.  She _____________ (2) English every day.  She _________________ (3) English for an hour already.  She is a bit tired now.

          Yesterday when she _______________ (4) English, she heard her neighbours screaming and shouting.  After she ________________ (5) for an hour, she went out to the garden to play with her pet dog, Lulu.   She also _____________ (6) Chinese in the afternoon.

          Tomorrow, she will go to the May’s house.  They ______________ (7) Mathematics together.  They _____________________ (8) Mathematics the whole afternoon.               (study)

Exercise 22

Given the different tenses with the given word ‘Read’ . 

          Yalee has borrowed a book called “The Ugly Duckling”.  She ______________(1)

the book as soon as she has finished her homework.

          Yaling, Yalee’s little sister _____________(2) the book now.  She is a bookworm, too.  She ____________(3) a lot.  Actually she _______________ (4) the book in an adapted version for her age.

          Yaling ___________ (5) an interesting book yesterday.  She ________________ (6) it under a tree during recess.  She _____________ (7) about half of the book when the bell rang.

          Yalee ______________(8) the book “The Ugly Duckling” with her sister when she has finished doing her homework.                  (read)

Exercise 23

Give the different tenses with the given word ‘Choose’.

          Nahui is a choosy and fussy girl.  She always __________(1) her things with so much care and thought.  She never likes things that others ____________ (2) for her.

          She _______________(3) her dress now.  She is going to attend a wedding feast with her parents and she wants to look presentable.  She wants to choose a dress to match with her pair of shoes.

          Last Saturday, she attended a birthday party of a friend.  She ______________ (4) a pair of pink coloured shoes before she ____________(5) the dress.  She fussed so much while she ______________(6) her dress.  She liked the dress so much so that she was even wearing it to sleep.

          Look, she ______________ (7) a red dress to wear.  But she does not have any red shoes.  She never likes red shoes as they remind her of a story called “Dancing Red Shoes”.  The story has a terrible ending.                  (choose)

Exercise 24

Give the different tenses with the given word “run”.

          Madam Lee likes to bring her children, Tina and Peter to the park in the evening.  Her children always ___________ (1) happily in the park every evening.  Look, the children ________________ (2) happily in the park now.  Mdm Lee sometimes __________ (3) after them.

          They _________________ (4) about in the playground a few days ago.  They

________________ (5) about in the square tomorrow evening.

          Peter _____________ (6) for half an hour already.  If he ______________(7) for another round, he _______________ (8) for 5 rounds.  He is a bit tired already.  Yesterday, he sat down for some refreshments after he ______________ (9) for an hour and a half.           (run)

Exercise 25

Give the different tenses with the given word ‘Cross’.

          Paul’s grandfather likes to go to the coffee shop.  He has to walk across a few areas to reach the coffee shop to meet his friends.

          He always _________(1) the streets carefully.  He _____________(2) the pedestrian walk now.  He ________________ (3) half of it when someone is calling him on the handphone.  He just ignores the call.

          Yesterday while he _______________(4) the pedestrian walk, he was nearly knocked down by a car.  He was so shocked that he sweated profusely.  He almost fainted on the spot.

          Hence, he detoured and ______________(5) a large bridge and a big field to reach home.  When he ______________ (6) two-thirds of the field, he slipped and fell.

Luckily, he was not injured at all.

          Next Friday, he is going to visit a friend on the other side of the field.  He ______________ (7) 2 bridges and a big field to reach his friend’s house.  He ______________ (8) the areas with his pet dog, Lubi.  They will be walking slowly and leisurely across the area.

          The two friends will be happy to see each other.  They will be chit-chatting happily at the pavilion in the garden.                  (cross)

Exercise 26

Give the different tenses to the given word ‘Meet’ or  other given words or other verb form.

          Ming Cheng and Timhu are good friends.  They have ___________(1. know) each other since small.  Ming Cheng is a coffee shop operator and he co-partners with Timhu in the business.  So the 2 friends often  ___________ (2) to discuss the various issues concerning their business operation.

          They ______________ (3) each other now.  They ________________ (4. talk) happily with each other.  Actually they _______________ (5) 2 times already this week.

          A few days ago, Timhu ____________ (6) Ming Cheng at the coffee shop.  While he __________ (7.  be) there, he ___________ (8. order) a plate of fried noodles and a cup of milo drink.  When he ______________ (9. take) his lunch, someone __________(10. tell) him the shocking news that his uncle _______________ (11) with a car accident.  He _______________ (12. feel) really upset when he_____________(13. hear) it.  He  _______________ (14. leave) for home immediately.

          Luckily, his uncle only has only ______________ (15. sustain) a minor injury.  He only suffers cuts and bruises here and there.  But he has to stay in hospital for a few more days for observation.

          Timhu and his family _____________ (16. pay) him a visit when he has been discharged.  They ___________ (17) him at his bungalow in the suburb.  They _____________ (18) other members of their clan there.    (meet)

Exercise 13 - 18

Topic 4            Overview of the 9 tenses                                7

Exercise 13

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb given.

          Nina’s cousin, Anina has put on a lot of weight.  She ____________ (1. put) on at least 7 kilogrammes.  She ___________(2.  think) of reducing some weight.  Vivian, her friend ___________ (3.  suggest) her to get professional help so that she can slim down faster.  However, Rowena, her another friend __________ (4.  advise) her to control her diet.  She thinks Anina ___________ (5.  eat) too much lately.  She _______________ (6.  be) under the pressure of the public examination. 

          Anina _____________ (7. be) a top student since kindergarten.  She ________ never ____________ (8. disappoint) her parents, relatives, teachers and so on for her good performance since small.  But this time she _______ (9. be) not sure whether she can ___________ (10. live) up to the expectation of others.  She _________ (11. think) that the Form 5 public examination may not be so easy as other public examinations she ____________ (12. undergo) through.

          Nina always looks up to Anina as her model.  Nina’s mother, Puan Ashiah always __________ (13. tell) her how important it ________ (14. be) to be diligent and smart.  She always says Anina has high intelligent quotient (IQ) but she __________ (15. work) hard and smart, too.  She is a very well-disciplined and self-willed person.  She ___________  (16. manage) her life well.  She ___________ (17. have) time-management skill.  She ____________ (18. allocate) her time for sleeping, playing, studying and other activities properly. 

          When Nina __________ (19. tell) her mother that Anina is quite upset with her weight, Puan Ashiah does not think so.  She said Anina ________ (20. be) underweight last time.  But now she is in her ideal weight.  She thinks Anina ___________ (21. look) healthier and more beautiful than ever before.  It ________ (22. be) true that she should maintain her weight. 

Exercise 14     Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb.

          Anina ________almost_________ (1. resort) to low carbohydrate intake to reduce her weight but her mother, Puan Fatimah told her the harm of not having enough carbohydrates in the diet as she has read an article titled “Low Carbohydrate diet can hurt your memory”.  She _________ (2. tell) Anina how important it ________ (3. be) to take enough carbohydrates so that her brain can __________ (4. function) properly.

          With this knowledge, Anina ___________ (5. decide) to plan her meals properly.  Puan Fatimah likes to make different kinds of cake to pamper her children.  Anina __________ (6. like) the cheese cake and the jelly cake most.  Puan Fatimah finally ____________ (7. know) how to make these 2 kinds of cake.  Once she almost _____________(8. make) them every day.  Anina ___________ (9. enjoy) the cakes so much so that she ate the cake in place of the proper meals.  She ___________ (10. become) quite indulgent as far as taking cheese cakes and jelly cakes were concerned. 

          She ______________ (11. work) out an eating plan.  She knows that to keep up the optimal function of the brain, she __________ (12. need) a minimum of 125g of carbohydrates each day.  She ____________ (13. calculate) the amount of cheese cake or jelly cake she can _________(14. take) each day and what foods and fruits to consume in order to keep in good health.  She _________(15. realise) how important it _______ (16. be) to have a balanced diet, enough exercise and rest every day. 

          She always ______ (17 remind) herself that “Health is more important than good results.”  She has learnt to relax and takes life easy and just _______(18. try) her best.

Exercise 15

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb.                                          8

          Aunt Onono, one of Anina’s aunts also faced the problem of putting on weight easily when she __________ (1. be) at her teenage.  She _________ (2. try) all means to slim down.  At one time, she even _____________(3. go) on for several days almost eating nothing.  She __________ (4. endure) pangs of hunger.  Yes, she __________ (5. slim) down but she __________ (6. start) binge eating again after starving for a few days.  She ___________ (7. put) on weight again.  This yo-yo way of losing weight and putting on weight _____________ (8. affect) her overall rate of metabolism.  She ___________ (9. try) this method for years  until she __________ (10. realise) the hard fact that she ________ (11. need) a balanced diet to slim down and keep fit.

        One day when she ____________ (12. walk) home from school, she almost ____________ (13. faint) on the way.  She _________ (14. suffer) from weakness that she __________ (15. guess) for not having enough food for the system.

       She ________ (16. feel) frustrated over her weight until one day she ____________ (17. consult) a great uncle who __________ (18. be) a nutritionist.  Encik Jamah __________ (19. tell) her to take a right amount of carbohydrates.  He ___________  (20. recommend) her to take about 125-150 grams of carbohydrates.  He ____________ (21. list) out the foods to take daily so that she _________         (22. can get) all kinds of food she __________ (23. require) for the proper growth.

        He __________ (24. tell) her to follow the eating plan.  She ________          (25. need) to practise self-discipline.  She _________ (26. have) to exercise and ________ (27. need) enough rest every day.  She also __________ (28. need) to take up some hobbies so that she ________ (29. can get) her mind off the foods.  She ________ (30. be) assured that she __________ (31. can slim) down in the course of time if she ___________ (32. follow) this diet regimen he __________ (33. prescribe).

Exercise 16

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb.

     Aunt Onono __________ (1. know) her weakness.  It ______ (2. be) true that she __________ (3. eat) too much junk food and _________ (4. exercise) too little.  She _________ (5. not cultivate) any hobby to get herself occupied.  When she ________ (6. feel) bored, she ________ (7. indulge) herself in food.  When she _________ (8. find) that she _____________ (9. become) too fat,  in a panic, she __________ (10. resort) to starving herself to slim down.  This __________ (11. cause) many problems to both her physical and emotional health.  Luckily, she ________     (12. get) some advice from her great uncle, Encik Jamah.

          Since every cell in the system needs right kind of food in order to grow well, she _________ (13. decide) to eat different kinds of food at the right amount.  Encik Jamah _______ (14. tell) Aunt Onono if the cell ________ (15. not get) the right nutrients, the cells might go haywire.  He said it _________ (16. be) not surprising that the cells failing to get the right nutrients __________ (17. become) cancerous. 

          Anina has heard a lot of stories about Aunt Onono.  She is the most adventurous aunt.  She _________(18. dare) to try and experience to find out the truth.  Anina ____________ (19. chance) to meet her at Arara’s wedding when she _____________ (20. attend) the wedding banquet last Sunday.  She _________(21. happen) to sit beside her.  She __________ (22. hear) a lot of chit-chat of her adventures.  Anina ____________ (23. take) the opportunity to ask her many questions about weight control, diet and health.  She _______ (24. give) Anina good advice.   But now she __________ (25. look) fit and healthy.  She is not fat at all.                

Exercise 17                                                                                                   9

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb.

          Anina was excited when her mother ___________(1. tell) her that they are going to attend a birthday party next Saturday afternoon.  It is her paternal grandparents’ birthday.  Anina ______________ (2. look) forward to meeting her cousins, uncles and aunts and paternal grandparents.  Her grandparents live with Uncle Georamah’s family   in a mansion with a big farm in a village.  Anina and her siblings Bifivi and Omar __________ (3. like) to go their house so much.  Uncle Georamah __________         (4. keep) many animals on his farm for sales, own consumption and hobbies.  It is fun to look at the different kinds of animals like cats, dogs, monkey, pangolins, turkeys, peacocks, chickens, ducks, geese, horses, goats, cows, bees and so on.

          Anina always _________ (5. feel) relaxed and good being near to nature.  On the occasion of her grandparents’ birthday, she can ___________ (6. meet) so many cousins, uncles, aunts and others.  Her grandparents ___________ (7. be) born on the different days in the same month and they always _____________ (8. celebrate) the birthday together.

          This _________ (9. be) the occasion when everybody __________ (10. make) an effort to come back to celebrate.  Each family __________ (11. bring) a dish or two to celebrate the occasion.  It is a pot-luck party.  Anina’s mother, Puan Fatimah, always _____________ (12. make) several big birthday cakes of different flavours.  This year she ____________ (13. make) a big cheese cake and a big jelly cake.  She also ______________ (14. steam) some spring rolls.  Nina’s mother Puan Ashiah ____________ (15. cook) mixed vegetables, green bean soup with pine leave juice and make yogurt.            There _______ (16. be) so many kinds of food to eat. 

Exercise 18

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb.

          Anina has scored well in her public examination again.  Puan Fatimah, Anina’s mother is very happy with her results.  She ____________ (1. go) to hold a party to celebrate Anina’s birthday and her success.  Anina __________ (2. start) writing the invitation cards.  She ____________ (3. write) 20 cards. She ______________          (4. discuss) with her family whom they will invite since her mother _________           (5. decide) to hold a party.  Everybody _____________ (6. be) excited and looking forwards to the occasion.

          As usual, Puan Fatimah _____________ (7. make) a big cheese cake and a jelly cake.  She _____________ (8. make) the cake the night before her birthday.  She ___________ (9. prepare) a ten-course meal for sure.  This time she might prepare more.

      Bifivi, Anina’s sister ________ (10. give) her a Barbie Doll last year.  She ___________ (11. find) out that Anina does not really like Barbie Doll as she __________ (12. do).  She only likes books.  This year, she might __________ (13. buy) her a book.  She ______________ (14. try) hard to find out what kind of books she _____________   (15. like).  Bifivi ___________ (16. browse) her bookshelves now.  She _________           (17. have) most of the books that Bifivi has listed.  Finally, Bifivi ___________         (18. decide) to buy her a thumb-drive as Anina needs to copy her compositions of poem, prose  in it for safekeeping or back up. 

          Omar ________ (19. think) that he can___________ (20. give) her a hamster.  Lately, Ruri, his hamster ___________ (21. give) birth to 5 little hamsters.  There __________ (22. be) just too many for him to keep them at ease.  It should be a good decision to give her one to please her.  She __________ (23. buy) him a digital watch on his birthday last month.  He thinks he must give her something in return.