Topic 6 Overview
of the Tenses and Verb Forms (III)
Exercise
27
Fill in the blanks with
the word “clean” in the right tense or form otherwise as indicated.
Hed and his classmates clean
the classroom every day. They
____________(1)
the
assembly hall once a week. They
________________(2) it now. They
_______________ (3) all the windows and
so they look sparklingly clean now.
They ____________________(4) the hall since 8am. If they ___________ (5) it for half an hour
more, they __________________________(6) it for 3 hours. It is 10:30am now .
It was their turn to clean the toilets
last Friday afternoon. They
________________ (7) the toilets with garbage enzyme and water only. Everybody ______________ (8 bring) a bottle of garbage enzyme to school
for the purpose. While they
_________________(9), they ______________ (10
hear) Hed ________________ (11 scream) out really loud for help. Everyone rushed to him ________________ (12 see)
what ________________ (13 happen) to
him.
Everybody was tickled pink at the sight. They all ______________ (14 laugh) hysterically at him. Wu……….so Hed was frightened by the crawling
maggots ______________ (15 come) out
from a hole. Frankie, the naughtiest and most mischievous one, just picked up some maggots and _____________
(16 try) to put on Hed’s shoulder. It ____________ (17 be) just too much for Hed that he ___________
(18 pass) out at that juncture.
Everyone
screamed when they ___________ (19 see)
it. Then Frankie turned pale and looked
like going ________________ (20 faint)
at any time. Pearl who has the
knowledge of First Aid used 2 fingers to____________ (21 wedge) and pull the skin of his nape several
times before she asked him to sit down on the ground. Immediately after that she rushed to Hed to_____________
(22 revive).
Encik Halihah, the discipline master, who ____________ (23 make) his round the
school should have noticed something in amiss there and walked to them. Frankie looked paler to see him. He has
_______________ (24) his office next Friday as punishment for being late and
breaking a window in his classroom. He _____________
(25) it alone. Whenever he thinks that he
___________________ (26) the place when his friends are playing in the field,
he feels really depressed. If he
___________ (27) it again next Friday, he __________________ (28) five times
this year.
Exercise
28
Fill
in the blanks with the word “teach” in the right tense / form as or otherwise indicated.
Encik Halihah, the discipline master,
whom every student thinks ___________ (1
be) the smartest of all in the
school. He ____________ (2 seem) to know
everything under the sun. He is always
so silent but everybody __________ (3 say) he thinks in depth and width for
everything. His glance can ____________ (4. frighten) a pupil to bad dream at night. When he _____________ (5. stare) at you, it may mean that he
____________ (6 study) you. People say he almost always ____________ (7 judge) things correctly. He even ___________( 8 predict) well.
He
is just terrible.
He ____________ (9 ) in their school
for 15 years. He _______________ (10)
Mathematics very
well though he is major in Psychology. But
the school assigned him _______________ (11) Science in the beginning and he
____________ (12 find) that he _________________ (13 not like) the subject. So the school lets him ____________(14)
Mathematics since. He _____________________
(15) this subject since 12 years ago. He ______________ (16) four classes before he
was promoted _____________ (17 be) the discipline master.
He ______________ (18) Ozee’s class
next year. Everyone except Frankie _______________ (19 look) forwards to his ___________________ (20)
them Mathematics. He is not sure
whether he can_________________ (21 live) up to his expectation. He is
stern and strict though many people say he is often so humorous. His lessons ____________ (22 be) not boring at all. It is
fun and interesting.
Exercise 29
Fill in the blanks with the
right tense / form of the verb or otherwise as indicated.
Frankie
has good lessons for his fear. He still
can _______________
(1 remember) how he ______________ (2 torture)
him as punishment in his office.
He never canes students and he always says though______________ (3 cane) a person is the easiest way, it is not
the best method ____________ (4 teach) a person a lesson not to repeat the same
act / behaviour once more.
First
he would _____________ (5 lecture) the person for 15 minutes. Next, he would __________ (6 give) you a very
dirty comb and a toothbrush and ____________
(7 ask) you to clean it thoroughly.
You ____________ (8 have) to be serious with his order and ___________(9 do) the work properly otherwise you would be
in greater trouble. After examining the
comb several times if he is______________ (10
satisfy) with it, then he would ask you _______________ (11 comb) your hair 50 times before the
mirror. You have to comb your hair perfectly
neat or he would ask you to com another 50 times.
After that, he would give
you to untie your shoe laces and tie your shoe lace again. You might ____________ (12 have) to do it several times before he asks you to
do other things. He usually would ask
you to dust_____________ (13 clean) and wipe _________________(14 clean) his room until it looks spick and span.
Then you usually have to
stand before his desk for half an hour or more before he __________ (15 come) to you for another 15 minutes of
lecture before he lets you ____________ (16
go). Nobody feels good
_________ (go) through this punishment.
Exercise 30
Fill in the blanks with the word “play” in the right tense / form of the
verb or otherwise as indicated
Oyee
____________ (1 ) the piano every day. She
______________ (2) the piano now. She _______________
(3) it since she woke up. She _____________
(4) for at least forty-five minutes. She
__________________(5) it for another fifteen minutes, she _____________________
(6) it for an hour.
She
_____________ (7) the piano for a test in school yesterday. While she ___________________ (8) the
piano, Francis ____________ (9) into the
classroom and told everybody loudly that he ________________ (10 see) a big
python near the boys’ toilet. Oyee _________________ (11) two-thirds of the
song when she stopped suddenly. She was
distracted by the noise and the news. She
_____________
(12 start) the song all
over. Actually she ___________________ (13)
this song hard before the test started.
She ______________ (14)
the same song again next Saturday in a concert in the community. She ___________________(15) the same song
while Tina will be singing. She _________________
(16) this song 6 times this year. Everybody is looking forwards to their
performance
