Thursday, 25 July 2013

Exercise 1 - 4



Topic 1
        Exercise 1
        Fill in the blanks with the Present Tenses.
          Frogs are amphibians.  They ________ (1. live) on land and in water.  Adult frogs_______ (2. not have) tails but they ________(3. have) strong hind legs.  So, they can jump very far and they also _________ (4. use) their hind legs for swimming.  They can actually _______ (5.  jump) many times greater than the length of their body.  However, they have short front legs. 
Most frogs have thin, moist skin.  Some frogs ________ (6. have) poison glands in their skin.  The poison _________(7.  ooze) onto the skin and _________ (8. help) protect the skin. 
The fairly good eyesight __________(9. enable) them to capture food easily and avoid enemies.  The bulging eyes of the frog ________(10.  enable) it to see all directions.  Frogs can _______ (11. pull) in their eyeballs deep into the sockets.  This action __________ (12.  close) the upper and lower eyelids.
A frog _________ (13.  produce) “Croak! Croak! ”sound.  It ______ (14. have) vocal cords lying between the mouth and lungs. 
Little Tom Chieng likes frogs very much.  He __________ (15. look) at the frogs jumping around in his garden with his friends now.  Mark ___________ (16. catch) 3 frogs in his bag as he wants to bring back to keep, too.  He likes frogs too.  He _________ (17.  think) frogs are interesting.  He ___________ (18. buy) many books about frogs.  He ___________ (19. write) a story about frogs too.  He is half-way through and will finish the story soon.  Tom, Sammy and Mark _____________ (20. run) after the frogs now.  They have a lot of fun.

Exercise 2
Fill in the blanks with the Present Tenses.
          Aminah’s mother, Puan Mona is a florist.  She ________ (1. have) a floral shop.  She _________ (2. sell) flowers in bouquets.  She also __________(3. arrange) flowers in vases or baskets.  She _____________ (4. arrange) the flowers in a vase now now.  She __________ (5. arrange) 3 vases of flowers already. Madam Tiong, her old customer __________(6.  order) 5 vases of flowers.  Madam Tiong and her daughter ________ (7. like) the assortment of flowers like orchids, jasmines, daffodils, dahlias, roses,  carnations, and ixora.  Puan Mona ______ (8. try) to include as many as possible in each floral arrangement.
There ________ (9. be) a great variety of flowers in her shop.  Besides the ones mentioned above,  there ________ (10. be)  other kinds of flowers like Tulips, Azaleas, Lilacs,  Lilies, Orange touch-me-nots, Marigolds, Yellow Dogtooth Violets, Sunflowers, Buttercups, Fiddle-necks, Daisies, African Violets and so on.  There _______ (11. be) many customers frequenting her shop daily.  They ________ (12. enjoy) watching the flowers and usually __________ (13. buy) some flowers home.   Aminah _______ (14.
help) her mother whenever she ________ (15. Be)  free.  She is in the shop now and ___________ (16. talk) to a customer.  She ____________ (17. explain) to her.    (1)

Exercise 3
Fill in the blanks with the Present Tenses.
          Rahim’s father is a fishmonger.  He ________ (1.  sell) fish in market every day.
There _________ (2.  be) a great variety of fishes and other seafood on his stall.  They _______ (3. be) mackerel, silver pomfret, black pomfret, anchovies, grouper, snapper, sardine, red fish and so on.  He ____________ (4.  sell) fish to a customer now.  He ____________(5. sell) out at least 20kg of mackerel, silver pomfret, black pomfret and groupers. 
          Rahim always ________ (6.  help) his father at his stall on Sundays and holidays.  His father always _________ (7. pay) him RM30 a day.  He ________ (8. earn) RM90 so far this month.  He always ________ (9. try) to save as much as he can and _______ (10. use) the money wisely to buy the story books he likes.  He ___________ (11. save) RM1000 already.  He _______ (12.  want) to save enough to buy himself a laptop.
He _________ (13. be) a good helper.  He _______ (14. smile) a lot.  He ____________ (15. smile) now to the customers now and __________ (16. tell) them how fresh the fish are.  He always ________ (17. say) smiling _________ (18. not cost) a cent but it always ________ (19. bring) good luck to a person.  He ________ (20. think)  it is the easiest and best way to greet people.
Besides helping his father sell fish, he also _________ (21. enjoy) going out to the sea catching fish.  One of his uncles ________ (22. be) a fisherman.  He ________
(23. own) a big fishing vessel.  He __________ (24. employ) 3 workers to help him.  His uncle also _______ (25.  pay) him for helping in his vessel.  He ________ (26. tell) his uncle that he can join him during the coming one-week holidays in September.

Exercise 4
Fill in the blanks with the Present Tenses.
          Heng Tong is a thirteen-year-old boy and  likes cars very much.  He _______ (1. have) many toy cars on display on the shelf in his bedroom.  Recently, his father __________(2.  buy) him an electronic car.  He _________ (3. like) to play with it with his friends in the park in the evening. 
          Heng Tong’s father is a professional mechanic.  He _______ (4. own) a workshop repairing cars.  Heng Tong likes to go to his father’s workshop very much.  He ________ (5. be) in his father workshop now.  He is interested in repairing cars.  He ____________ (6. look) at Hassan, a mechanic repairing a car now.  He ___________ (7. help) him, too.  He ___________ (8. learn) the names of different parts of the car.  He __________ (9. know) it is important to know the names of each part of the car in order to learn how to repair the car one day. 
          His ambition _________ (10. be) to become a mechanical engineer.  He ___________ (11. study) hard and smart every day in order to fulfill his ambition.  He ___________ (12. want) to achieve more than his father as he enjoys more resources at his disposal.  His parents ___________(13. promise) to buy him a car on his 17th birthday if he scores good results in the public examination.  He ____________ (14.
study) very hard since.                                                                           (2)

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