Exercise 1
1. I can’t afford that ring. Its cost too much.
2. Look. It is beginning to rain. Unfortunately, I don’t have my umbrella with me.. Tom is lucky. He is wearing a raincoat.
3. I don’t have an umbrella. I wear a waterproof hat on rainy days.
4. Right now I am looking around the classroom. Yoko is writing in her book. Carlos is bitting his pencil. Wan-Ning is scratching his head. Ahmed to be daydreaming, but perhaps he is thinking hard about verb tenses. What do you think Ahmed doing is ?
5. There’s a book on my desk, but it doesn’t belong to me.
6. Dennis fixes the roof of his house today, and he needs some help. Can you help him ?
7. Barbara is often tutoring other students in her math assignment because he doesn’t understand the material they work on in their class this week.
8. Right now, I am looking at Janet. She looks angry. I wonder what’s the matter. She has a frown on her face. She certainly doesn’t have any fun right now.
9. A : Who is that woman who stands next to the window ?
B : Which woman ? Do you talk about the woman who wears the blue and gold dress ?
A : No, I am not talking about her. I mean the woman who wears the blue suit.
B : Oh, I don’t know. I don’t recognize her.
10. A : Close your eyes. Now listen carefully. What do you hear ? What am I doing ?
B : I believe you are rubbing the top if your desk whit your hand.
A : Close, but not exactly right. Try again. Do you listen carefully ?
B : Aha ! You are rubbing your hands together.
A : Right !
Exercise 2
1. I Almost had a car accident last night. I was driving down Washington Avenue when suddenly I saw a car in my lane. It came right at my car, I stepped on the brakes and swerved to the right. The other car just missed my car by about an inch.
2. Ten years ago, the government decided to begin a food program. At the time, many people in the rural areas of the country was starving due to several years of drought.
3. IT was my first day of class. I finally found the right room. The room already been full of students. On one side of the room, students was talking busily to each other on Spanish. Other students was speaking Japanese, and some was conversing in Arabic. It sounded like the United Nations. Some of students, however, just sit quietly by themselves. I chose an empty seat in the last row and sit down. In a few minutes, the teacher walked into the room and all the multilingual conversation stopped.
4. A : Did you hear what she just said ?
B : No, I didn’t listen. I was thinking about something else.
5. A : Why weren’t you at the meeting ?
B : I was waiting for an overseas call from my family.
6. A : I’m sure you met Carol Jones at the party last night.
B : I don’t remember her. What she did ?
7. A : What’s wrong with your foot ?
B : I stepped on a bee while I was running barefoot through the grass. It stung me.
8. A : How did you break your warm ?
B : I slipped on the ice while I was crossing the street in front of drom.
Exercise 3
1. Sally is in room listening to music.
2. Roy is on the couch taking a nap.
3. Anita was in England attending a conference last month.
4. The teacher is at her desk correcting papers.
5. Some of students were at the park playing soccer so they were late to class.
Exercise 4
1. I haven’t attended any parties since I came here.
2. I went to a party at sally’s apartment last Saturday night.
3. Bill has arrived here three days ago.
4. Bill has been here since the 22nd.
5. Try to not to be absent from class again for the rest of the term. You have already missed many classes. You missed two classes just last week.
6. Last January, I saw snow for the first time in my life.
7. In her whole lifetime, Anna never has seen snow.
8. I have known Greg Adams for ten years.
9. So far this week, I have had two tests and a quiz.
10. Up to now, Professor Williams has already given our class five tests.
Exercise 5
1. I have bought many books since the beginning of the semester.
2. I haven’t gotten any letters so far this month/week.
3. I heven’t written any letters so far this month/week.
4. So far, You have asked several questions.
5. I have flown in an airplane several times.
6. I have met many people since I came here.
Exercise 6
1. He was a newspaper reporter before he became a businessman.
2. I felt a little better after I had took the medicine.
3. I was late the teacher had already given a quiz when I got to class.
4. The anthropologist had left the village when she collected enough data.
5. It was raining hard, but by the time class was over, the rain had stopped.
Exercise 7
1. Class had already begun by the time I got there, so I make, quietly a seat in the back.
2. I hadn’t seen any of Picasso’s paintings before I visited the art museum.
3. I almost missed my plane. All of the other passangers had already boarded by the time I got there.
4. Yesterday at a restaurant, I saw Pam Donnely, an old friend of mine. I had not seen her in years. At first, I didn’t recognize her because she had lost at least fifty pounds.