ENSEIGNEMENT SECONDAIRE


The correct tense of verbs


Classes : 5ème

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense

1. Ann (look) for a bed sitter. She (see) an advertisement in the local paper and (ring) up Mrs. Smith, the owner of the house.Mrs Smith answer the phone.
2. Ann: Good afternoon. I (ring) about the room you advertised.
Mrs. Smith: Oh yes.
3. Ann: The advertisement (say) 'Share bathroom and kitchen'.
How many other people (use) bathrooms and kitchen?
4. Mrs Smith: Only one other – an Italian girl. And she (use) the kitchen very little. She (eat) out of most the time. I (not think) she like (cooking).
Ann: That suits me all right. I like cooking. But how we (arrange) about paying for the gas we (use) in the kitchen?
6. Mrs Smith: The rent (include) gas for cooking, also hot water and light. But it(not include)heating. Each room has its own fire and meter.
7. Ann: I(see).And the room (face)the front or the back?
8. Mrs Smith: It (face) the front. It (look) out on the garden square; and It get a lot of sun.
9. Ann: That (sound) very nice. Could I come and see it this evening?
Mrs. Smith: Yes, the earlier the better.
10.7 pm (suit) you? I (not be able to) come before that as I usually (not get) away from my office till 6 pm.
11. Ann: 7 pm (be) all right. I(not think)you (have)any difficulty in finding us.The14 bus(pass)the house and(stop)a few doors further along, outside the post office.
12. I am sure I (find) it all right (see) you at 7.0 then, Mrs Smith Goodbye.


Correction

1.is looking, sees, rings, answers
2.am ringing
3.says,use
4.uses,eats, don̢۪t think, likes
5.would suit/suits, like, would we arrange/do we arrange, use.
6.includes, doesn̢۪t include
7.see, does the room face
8.faces, looks, gets
9.sounds
10.would 7 pm suit(will 7 pm suit), can̢۪t/couldn̢۪t, don̢۪t get
11.Will/would be, don̢۪t think, will have, passes, stops
12.I will find, I will see.