Grammar Practice Unit 3
Grammar Practice Unit 3
Grammar Practice Unit 3
in parentheses. You can add the auxiliaries in case you need them for questions
or negative sentences.
A. _________________ (you / ever / be) to London?
B. Yes, I _______________ (be) there three times. Last summer, I __________ (spend)
two weeks in Brighton with my parents and we ____________ (go) to London one
weekend before coming back home.
A. ______________ (you / like) it?
B. Oh yes. We really ___________ (have) a great time in London.
A. Lucky you! I ______________ (be / never) to London.
4- B) Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:
Last Saturday my father …. took…. (take) my friends and me to the circus. We ………(see)
lots of things. My father …………………. (buy) us some popcorn and orange juice. We
……………………. (eat) the popcorn and ………………………… (drink) the orange juice.
We …………………….. (laugh) at the funny clowns. There …………………. (be) a lion-tamer.
The lions …………………… (do) tricks; they ………………………… (jump) through hoops. A
girl ………………………. (ride) an elephant around the ring. We all ………………… (have)
a wonderful time.
Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He ………………… (be)
the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He …………………(go ) to
school only one year. He …………………………… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the
age of fourteen he …………………………… (decide) to be a writer. He ………………….
(copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he …………………………… (become) the
best known writer in his time.
When he ………………….. (be) seventeen, he ………………………… (leave) Boston and
…………………………… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He
……………………… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and ……………………. (retire)
from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ………………………. (spend) the next
forty years for his government. He ………………………. (play) an important role in the
founding of the USA.
Franklin ……………… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He ……………. (draw)
electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ……………………… (write) one of the first text
books on electricity. He ……………………… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other
practical tools. He ……………………… (make) a study of water and ……………………….
(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even ………………………… (invent) bifocal
glasses when he was seventy-eight and ……………………… (need) them himself.
Franklin ……………… (do) all these things and many more because he …………….………
(believe) he ………………………… (can).
6- Put the verbs in the correct tense. Use the SIMPLE PAST or the PRESENT PERFECT: