Exercise 27 - 30

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