Gramática y Vocabulario en Inglés: Ejercicios Corregidos con Tiempos Verbales, Oraciones Condicionales y Estilo Indirecto

Gramática

(1) Fill in the blanks with the correct tense:

1.- We will have finished our exams by Friday.

2.- After I had completed the visa application form yesterday, I sent it to the consulate.

3.- I haven't spoken to Adrian since we had an argument.

4.- We had some exciting adventures when we were trekking in the Rocky Mountains.

5.- Who have you talked to on the phone?

(2) Join the following sentences using a relative clause:

1.- That's the house where I used to live when I was younger.

2.- Mankell is a Swedish writer who writes detective novels.

3.- That's the girl whose mother is an actress.

4.- The concert tickets, which I bought, arrived yesterday.

5.- That's the dog that I was walking at the park.

(3) Modals:

1.- I may have left the keys at home.

2.- You don't have to be good at everything.

3.- Humans won't be able to travel to Jupiter one day.

4.- You should apply for a place at college next year.

5.- You mustn't have passed the exam because you worked.

(4) Passive / Active:

1.- The iPads had been sold out.

2.- They have received a lot of complaints.

3.- A lot of messages have been written to me by my friend.

4.- A new advertising campaign will be launched next month.

5.- My motorbike was being repaired yesterday by them.

(5) Conditional:

1.- He won't go to school unless he is feeling hot this morning.

2.- If I didn't eat a lot of sweets, I wouldn't be fat.

3.- If they had played better, they would have won.

4.- Pat would have come to the concert if you had paid for his ticket.

5.- If he had known Tom's new address, he would have gone to his home.

(6) Rewrite the following sentences in reported speech:

1.- He told us that he had missed the bus the day before.

2.- He said that he wouldn't have time to go shopping the next day.

3.- Susan asked where I had stayed the previous weekend.

Vocabulario

(1) Use the -ing form or the to + infinitive:

1.- Learning 2.- Reading 3.- To be 4.- To introduce 5.- Laughing

(2) Complete the sentences with words formed from the bold words:

3.- Unfriendly 4.- Tastes 5.- Disgusting

(3) Replace the bold verbs with the correct phrasal verbs:

1.- Called off 2.- Come down with 3.- Afraid of 4.- Is keen on 5.- Take care of

(4) Replace the bold words with the correct word:

1.- Recycle 2.- Throw away 3.- Die out 4.- Raise 5.- Starve

(5) Complete the sentences with the correct form of GET or DO:

1.- Do my homework 2.- Got a degree 3.- Got better 4.- Got a job 5.- Do research

Texto

(1) Read the text and answer the questions:

A.- What is special about 3 April 1973?
The special thing about 3 April 1973 is that Motorola chose that date to introduce the world to Cooper's invention.

B.- Why did mobile phones not become popular immediately?
They didn't become popular immediately because the first mobile phones were too big and heavy and needed to be charged for ten hours.

(2) True or False:

a.- False (Engels was an engineer at a rival company.)

b.- True (Cooper told journalists that Star Trek had helped him...)

(3) Find words in the text that mean:

a.- Captain b.- Replied c.- The media d.- Reduced