Build your Reflexes.

Chapter One…
(One of them, of course)

Welcome to my dojo! My name is Mr. Lee. Mr. Correct Lee.

They call me that because I always speak English correctly. To speak
like me you need reflexes, and this is what I want to build in you:
reflexes.
Okay, let’s start the first lesson.

The First Lesson – Present Simple and its eternal problems: letter s and does.

The reflexes that you need:

1 – When you see “he”, or “she”, or “it”, you give the verb letter “s” (sometimes “es” or
even “ies”). E.g. He eats. She goes. It flies.
2 – When you see “does”, you take letter “s” (“es” or “ies”) from the verb. E.g. He does
not eat. She does not go. It does not fly. Does he eat? Does she go? Does it fly?
Question: Where does letter “s” go when “does” appear?
Answer: It goes to… “do” itself, and that is why “do” becomes “does”! Yes, it becomes
“does” because “s” is very good friends with “e”.

Exercise 193. Add letters “s”, “es” or “ies” whenever it is necessary and make sentences
in Present Simple. REMEMBER: do not add those letters if the subject is “I”, “you”,
“we” or “they”. See the models.
Models: Ken – teach Math ___Ken teaches Math___ ; Jane and Rudolph – dance every day.
___Jane and Rudolph dance every day.___
1. Bill – always forget his pens at home. _________________________________________
_____________________ 2. Nigel – take karate lessons. ___________________________
________________ 3. Mr. Mikimoto – give karate lessons. _________________________
________________________ 4. Grandpa – watch news every morning. _______________
_________________________________ 5. My sister and I – play chess in the evening.
__________________________________________________________ 6. You – do
grammar exercises every day. __________________________________________________
7. She – do physical exercises before she – have breakfast. ___________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
8. We – walk in the park when the spring – come. __________________________________
________________________ 9. Mom – fry fish twice a month. ______________________
______________________________ 10. That boxer – box many times a year. __________
___________________________________________ 11. I – ride my bicycle in summer.
___________________________________________________ 12. The shark – catch fish
and – eat them. ______________________________________________________________
13. Many people – go swimming in summer. ______________________________________
_____________________ 14. Roxane – cry every time she – fall down. _______________
__________________________________________________________________________
15. Bill – run very fast when his neighbor’s dogs – start chasing him. __________________
__________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________ 16. Tim and Kim – sleep 12 hours a day!
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 I have an idea: let’s try a different reflex. My master, Never Wrong Lee, gave me
this fortune cookie. Read it, please, and then try to practice your reflexes.

For he, for she, for it, I guess,

In questions we use do-E-S,
But for I, we, they and for you
We don’t use “does”, but we use do.

So, you got that, didn’t you? In questions, we start the

question with does, which is do + e and s, but only for he,
she and it. For I, we, you and they we use do. Good luck!

Exercise 194. Turn all the sentences in Exercise 1 into questions. See the models below.
Models: (Ken teaches Math.) ___Does Ken teach Math?______
(Jane and Rudolph dance every day.) ___Do Jan and Rudolph dance every day?__
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Exercise 195. Build your reflexes by turning these sentences into negative sentences.
1. Mary rides her bicycle twice a week, and she falls three times a week… ____________
________________________________________________________________________
2. My dog chases its tail when it is hungry. _____________________________________
______________________________________ 3. That bird sings beautifully! ________
_____________________________________________ 4. The lion runs after its pray and it
catches it. ________________________________________________________________
___________________________ (and that is true, actually, because it is the lioness who
puts food on the table, so to speak.) 5. My mom drinks a glass of milk every evening.
_____
__________________________________________________________________________
6. Michael visits his grandparents every day. They have a candy factory… ______________
______________________________________________________ 7. My sister watches
cartoons every evening. _______________________________________________________
8. My aunt usually walks to work. ______________________________________________

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_______________________ 9. Kenny believes that extraterrestrials exist. ______________
_________________________________________________ 10. My father drives his car
every day. _________________________________________________________________
11. My cousin drives too fast. __________________________________________________
12. My neighbor’s cat catches mice and small birds. ________________________________
__________________________________________________ 13. That baby cries only
when it is hungry or thirsty. ____________________________________________________
__________ 14. His horse runs as fast as the wind when the wind does not blow…_______
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________ 15. That car functions well. ________________________
_____________ 16. Grandma makes lasagna every weekend. _______________________
_________________________________ 17. My parrot imitates… other parrots. ________
__________________________________________ 18. My friend, Benny, plays video
games three times… a year! ___________________________________________________
_______________________________ 19. Ricky studies guitar two hours a day. ________
____________________________________________ 20. Hellen likes to do grammar
exercises. __________________________________________________________________

IMPORTANT! Mr. Have does not want to sound haves or havies, and that is why he
invited his friend, Mr. Has, to make sentences with he, she and it, but only for
affirmative, because in questions and negative sentences do and have rule!

Exercise 196. Fill in the blank with have or has.

1. Jim ___________ two penguins, and his penguins ___________ black feathers.
2. My sister and I ______________ many toys to play with, and our parents ___________
many toys to… buy for us!
3. Jack ___________ a black dog. His dog _______________ five puppies, and the puppies
_____________ blue eyes and small years. They are so cute!
4. My grandparents ____________ many chickens and ducks. I ____________ only a parrot.
5. Tim and Rick ____________ green bicycles, and their bicycles ___________ black tires.
6. Vicky ____________ a blue bicycle, and her bicycle ___________ red tires. It looks cool!
7. Mr. Green ____________ two yellow cars, and his cars ___________ … no tires at all!
8. My neighbors ____________ a big house, and their house ___________ five rooms, and
each room ___________ big windows, and the windows ____________... dirt on them.
9. Paul ________ an ant, and the ant ________ six small feet, but its feet _________ no toes.
10. That fox _________ a fluffy tail, because all the foxes __________ fluffy tails. I guess…

Exercise 197. Filling good? (Did you get it? Filling, from “fill in the blanks” instead of
feeling... Whatever!) Anyway, turn the sentences in Exercise 4 into negative sentences.
The first one is done for you.
The first one: ___Jim does not have two penguins, and the penguins do not have black
feathers.___
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Exercise 198. Fill in the blanks with the right form of the verbs and then make
questions for every word or group of words for which you can possibly ask questions
(using what, where, when, why, how many etc.; I hope that you know what to do).
Remember:
- use “do” or “does” after what, where, when, why,
which, how, how, many, how much, whose and whom;
- do not use “do” or “does” after who (and, sometimes,
after whose).
(I am not a karate master, but I know grammar!)

1. Jim’s dinosaur _____________ (run) five kilometers every day.

2. Abigail _____________ (eat) five red apples every day, in the kitchen, because… she
____________ (like) to eat five red apples every day, in the kitchen. D’oh!
3. Nick and Rickie ___________ (play) football in the backyard five times a day.
4. My kittens ____________ (drink) two litters of milk in the evening because they _______
(be) always hungry.
5. Jeremy ___________ (come) to school by… rocket because his parents ____________
(work) at a space agency where his mother ___________ (build) rocket and his father
____________ (fly) them.
6. Carol __________ (have) two bicycles, but she always _________ (choose) the red one
when she _________ (want) to go for a ride, because the red one ________ (have) wheels…
7. Herman always _____________ (watch) horror movies, in the evening, but his parents
always ______________ (prefer) comedies.
8. Jim ____________ (drink) two glasses of orange juice before he ________ (go) to school.

Let me help you with the questions for the first sentence. First, I write the word or the
words for which the question is intended, and then I write the question. Watch me do this!
1. Jim’s dinosaur – Who (or What) runs five kilometers every day? Jim’s – Whose dinosaur
runs five kilometers every day? runs – What does Jim’s dinosaur do? five – How many
kilometers does Jim’s dinosaur run? every day – How often does Jim’s dinosaur run?
Now, use your notebook and write down as many question as you can.

Exercise 199. If nothing works, then take 20 verbs and do as you see in the table below!
I write every day. Do I write every day? I do not (don’t) write every day.
You write every day. Do you write every day? You do not (don’t) write every day.
He writes every day. Does he write every day? She does not (doesn’t) write every day.
She writes every day. Does she write every day? He does not (doesn’t) write every day.
It writes every day. Does it write every day? It does not (doesn’t) write every day.
We write every day. Do we write every day? We do not (don’t) write every day.
You write every day. Do you write every day? You do not (don’t) write every day.
They write every day. Do they write every day? They do not (don’t) write every day.

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Suggested verbs: to go, to swim, to fly, to cry, to catch, to watch (television), to climb, to
pass (the ball), to box, to sleep, to eat, to drink, to jump, to walk, to talk, to run, to stay, to
speak, to sing, to dance.
Now VS Every Day
or
Present Continuous (Progressive) VS Present Simple

Hello! How you are? I is fine, thank you. I train you have two new reflexes:
you see “now”, you be good student and use Present Continuous. You see the
adverbs below, you be good student and use Present Simple.
The adverbs below: every day/week/month/Christmas etc., once, twice, three
times a day/week/month etc., always, often, usually, sometimes, seldom (rarely),
never etc. (Me like “etc.” very many!) And, now, oss!

Exercise oss. Sorry, exercise 200. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb.
1. Martha usually ________________ (to walk) to work.
2. Gregory ________________ (to drink) water ten times a day.
3. Tim and Allen _________________ (to talk) on the phone, at this moment.
4. That tiger ________________ (to jump) over the fence every time it is hungry. So, run!
5. Penguins ________________ (to feed) their babies until they grow. (D’oh!)
6. Right now, Emma _________________ (to sing) in the living room, while the rest of the
family _________________ (to keep) their fingers in their ears.
7. My sister usually ________________ (to finish) her homework before me.
8. I rarely ________________ (to clean) my room, but when I _____________ (to do) it, it
________________ (to turn) into the cleanest room in the world.
9. Simon _________________ (to play) drums at this moment, so he can’t hear the phone.
10. Babies often _______________ (to cry) when they are hungry, but they never
________________ (to laugh) when they are full. They _______________ (to burp)!
11. I usually _________________ (to watch) television at this hour, but now I ___________
______________ (to watch, not) television. I _________________ (to play) with my cousin,
because he is _________________ (to visit) me.
12. My parents ___________________ (to eat) at the restaurant every Sunday, but this
Sunday we they ___________________ (to eat) in because it is my birthday!
13. The Browns usually _________________ (to go)out for a walk in the evenings, but not
today, because today they _________________ (to pack). They will go to the sea tomorrow.
14. My dog __________________ (to chase) his tail at this moment. He is funny!

Exercise 201. Use your reflexes and fill in the blanks with “now” or “every day”,
depending on when the action takes place. You should use less than five seconds for
each sentence! Can you finish the exercise in 60 seconds? Try!
1. My classmates run and play football in the classroom ___________________
2. Victor, Nigel and Billy are playing football in the schoolyard ___________________
3. Many people take the shuttle bus to the airport __________________
4. Janice swims thirty minutes and runs four kilometers __________________
5. The bears on that mountain visit the people of this village _________________, in winter.
6. Jim is not home. He is flying to London ________________
7. Samantha, my sister’s friend, is using my computer _________________. I hate that!
8. Nate is sad ___________________ and nobody knows why.
9. I write three emails, five poems and one short story _________________

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10. Those children over there are making a lot of noise __________________
11. The wolves in that forest come to the village and steal ship _______________
12. Is that clown crying with one eye and laughing with the other ________________?!
Exercise 202. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb, but be careful: in
many cases, the adverbs are missing! If you want to make sure that you are doing a
great job, read what the owl has to say to you.
REMEMBER! When the action is moving, it is Present Continuous:
Look, it is raining! I see Jack: he is playing on the slide.
When the action is not moving and we simply talk
about it, it is Present Simple: Cows eat grass. They do not eat meat.
The Earth goes round the sun. We love broccoli! (Really?!)

1. Be careful: the tiger in front of you ______________ (to get) ready to attack!
2. They say that elephants ______________ (to jump, not) because they simply cannot jump!
3. Look at that girl over there! Boy, she ________________ (to run) like the wind, isn’t she?
4. Watch out! A bee _________________ (to fly) your way!
5. John is in his room. He ______________________ (to study) hard because he will take a
test tomorrow.
6. Everybody knows that cats _________________ (to eat) mice, but only when they
__________________ (to run) after them and ___________________ (to catch) them.
7. My neighbor’s son usually ____________________ (to walk) to school, but today he
_____________________ (to ride) his bicycle because he __________________ (to want)
everybody to see what a cool bicycle he __________________ (to have).
8. I _______________________ (to have) my lunch in this little lunch box, in my bag, and I
will eat it later, but my classmates ___________________ (to have) lunch right now in the
cafeteria, because they are sooooooo angry! Sorry, I meant hungry.
9. Sam and Pam __________________ (to love) pizza, but today they _________________
(to eat) only vegetables because they want to be healthy.
10. They say that Superman ___________________ (to fly) faster than the speed of light, but
I just __________________ (to believe, not) that.
11. So, you __________________ (to know) that the verbs “to believe” and “to know”
cannot be used in Present Continuous! Good for you!
12. Listen to Kristine: she ____________________ (to sing) her little heart out! She usually
__________________ (to sing) inside her house, but today she _____________________ (to
sing) in front of her house, because their parents can’t take this any longer…

Exercise 203. Another useful reflex is to know when to use “do”/“does” and when to use
“to be” (am, are, is) to start a question. Anyway, never use “do” or “does” with V-ing. It
is just not nice! So, make questions for the underlined words or group of words. See the
model below the text, if you still need it. By the way, you’ll need a notebook.
Vanessa and Cindy are playing badminton in the backyard. They play badminton in
the backyard every day, because they love playing badminton. They have a very funny dog.
Their dog is having breakfast, now, in the kitchen. Ken, their brother, is eating one red apple
on the swing. He is not playing on the swing, now, but he usually plays on the swing three
hours a day. Yes, he loves playing on the swing! Their father is washing his blue car in the
front yard. He washes the blue car every day, but he washes the red car only twice a month.
Their mother is reading a book in the living room. She reads three books every month
because she is a teacher of literature.
Vanessa and Cindy: Who is playing badminton in the backyard? (Yes, we use the singular
form of the verb – is – even if we know that there are more children who are playing.)

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They: Who plays badminton in the backyard? (If the question starts with “who”, we do not
need “do” or “does”.)
badminton: What do they play in the backyard, every day?
Exercise 204. Make sentences using the given words. See the model below.
Model: Mark – play chess – now. __Mark is playing chess, now.___
That cat – steal my food – always: ___That cat always steals my food.___
1) My sister – make the bed – never. ____________________________________________
2) My friends – do their homework – in the evening. ________________________________
_______________________________ 3) The wind – blow – very hard today. __________
__________________________________________________ 4) My neighbors – have
dinner – at this moment. ______________________________________________________
5) My kittens – sleep – now. ___________________________________________________
7) That train – stop here – every day. ___________________________________________
______________ 8) My watch – stop – every five minutes. (I am going to throw it away!) _
_________________________________________________ 9) My father – drive to work
– usually. ________________________________________________ 10) Marcus and
Parcus – drive – on Mondays. __________________________________________________
_______________________________ 11) Watch out! That airplane – fly – too low!
____________________________________________________ 12) Pigs – fly – only at
the weekends. ________________________________________________
13) Gregory – run – very fast, if he sees a dog. _______________________
_____________________________________________________________
14) Be quiet! My sister – try – to think! _____________________________
15) Some people – think – that the Earth is round. What a joke! _________
_____________________________________________________________

Exercise 205. Turn the sentences in Exercise 18 into questions. You can do this orally,
unless somebody tells you to write them down. In your notebook, I mean. See the
model.
Model to be seen: __Is mark playing chess, now?__
__Does that cat always steal food?__

Exercise 206. Give negative answers to the questions that you made in Exercise 19, and
then say something different. Orally or whatever. This time, you need to see the model!
The model which you need to see:
__No, Mark is not playing chess, now. He is playing cards.___
__No, that cat does not always steal food. Sometimes, it steals cars…___

Exercise 207. Let’s have some fun! There are 17 mistakes in the text below. All kinds of
mistakes, not only grammar mistakes. Find all of them. (Yeah, good luck with that!)

Emily it’s a very good girl. She always help his mother in the kitchen and she does her

bad every day. Four example, write know she is washes the dishes. She likes to washing the

dishes because she likes water. It is strange, doesn’t it? Hers brother don’t like to help in the

kitchen, but he like swimming in oceans. For example, at this moment he is swimming in the

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Atlantic Ocean, in Hawaii. He sometimes like swimming in rivers, but most off the time you

can find he in the oceans and the seas of the world.

The Second Lesson – Past Simple and its trouble maker: Mr. Did!

Hi, everybody! I karate master. Big master! I say you Mr. Did
big, big trouble. He bad boy. He not like V2 and always kick and punch
it. So, all V2 just run when see Mr. Did. My English not very good, but
I have reflex to use V1 when I see Mr. Did. I train you do same. Just
do exercises below. Oss!

Exercise 208. Turn the following sentences into negative sentences by crossing out the
verb and writing “did not (didn’t) + V1” after each of them. See the model.
Model: Tom took __did not take__ the book and opened_did not open__ it.
1) The cheetah ran ________________ after the gazelle, caught _________________ it
and… gave ________________ it a flower. 2) My dog rolled _________________over
twice and started ____________________singing in Chinese. 3) Mr. Brown bought _____
____________a red car and painted __________________it purple. 4) The children got
__________________angry and started ___________________biting the dog. 5) My
neighbor bought __________________ a cat, washed __________________ it, fed _______
____________it, took __________________it to the vet and then changed _____________
____________ it for a dirty dog. 6) We helped ____________________ in the house,
yesterday: I watered ____________________the flowers, my sister moped ______________
the floor, my brother walked __________________the dog and my father fixed ________
_________the refrigerator. (Actually, the negative variant makes more sense, doesn’t it?) 7)
The police caught _________________ the bad guy who confessed ________________ his
crime immediately and apologized _____________________________ for… being bad. 8)
The extraterrestrial came ____________________ out of its spaceship, picked _________
_________a flower, smelt __________________it and said _______________: “I really
missed this place!” 9) The man started ___________________ the engine, put __________
________the car in the fifth gear, released _____________________the clutch and then told
__________________his son: “This is what you must never do. Okay?” 10) The students
finished __________________ Exercise 8, smiled _________________ and started _______
__________doing Exercise 17.(You wish the negative of this sentence were real, don’t you?)

Exercise 209. Turn the following sentences into question. See the model.
Model: She went home two days ago. __Did she go home two days ago?__
1) They moved here last year. _______________________________________ 2) He
turned off the light and went to bed. _____________________________________________
_____________________ 3) The captain ordered them to attack. ____________________
____________________________ 4) Somebody told him to leave. ___________________
__________________________ 5) They arrived last night. _________________________
____________ 6) He swam yesterday. __________________________________________
7) She flew to Paris last Monday. _______________________________________________
8) We sang yesterday. ____________________________________ 9) He saw her last
week. __________________________________________ 10) A dog bit him when he was

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a child. ________________________________________________________ 11) Their
team beat our team. __________________________________________________________
12) Mom cooked fish last weekend. _____________________________________________
13) I watched a movies last night. _______________________________________________
14) She cried yesterday. ________________________________________ 15) They asked
15 sentences in total. _________________________________________________________

Exercise 210. Turn these sentences into affirmative sentences by crossing out the
negative verbs and writing the affirmative ones and then ask all the possible questions
for the words or for the groups of words in the affirmative sentences. If you do not
know what to do, see the model. (Did you really forget Exercise 5?! Really?)
Model: Jack did not open __opened__the refrigerator and did not take out __took out__ a
sandwich.
1) Michael did not write _____________two love poems in his car last week. 2) Samuel did
not break _____________ Jim’s bicycle because he did not ride ___________ it into a wall.
3) My friends did not buy ___________ five blue pencils yesterday and they did not give
____________ me the shortest one. 4) Our neighbors did not buy ________a new dog and
did not let ________it free, and the dog did not ruin ________our flowers. 5) The soldier
did not put _________his rifle down, did not take out _________a chocolate bar from his
pocket and did not give _________ it to a child who was not _______in front of the bridge
which he did not want _________ to cross. 6) You did not solve _________sentence 5,
which was not _________ sooooooo long! 7) Last week, many rabbits in our forests did not
eat _______ a lot because they were not _______ very hungry, and the foxes did not
eat_______ a lot of rabbits because, well, they were not _______ hungry, too. 8) When I
was not ________little, I did not ride _______ my bicycle into a wall and I did not scratch
___________ my knees and I did not break ________ the wall into pieces. 9) As soon as
they did not see ________ that the plane did not land ____________, they did not start
____________ running towards it. 10) The princes did not pick __________the frog from
the ground, did not kiss __________ it and did not see _________ that… it was not
_________ just a frog. Later, her mother did not tell __________her that the whole story
with a frog turning into Prince Charming was not ________ just a joke.

Exercise 211. Wrong Lee, Mr. Correct Lee’s friend, wrote a text in Past Simple, but
made a lot of mistakes. Correct his mistakes and then make questions for every word or
group of words.

How I Break My Bike

One day, last summer, I wants to go to work by bike, so I goed to the

garage and taked my bike out, but I did not checked the brakes. I ride the

bike two kilometres, really fast, and after two kilometres I see a red truck

parked on the side of the road, right in front of me. I wanting to brake, but

the brakes did not works and the bike did not stopping, so I crasheded into it
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and breaks my bike. That’s how I broked my bike.
Exercise 212. Choose the correct variant.
1. Mike… a) did not broke his leg. b) break his leg. c) broke his leg.
2. Jane did not… a) broke her pencil. b) brake her pencil. c) break her pencil.
3. My dog… a) beat the mailman. b) bit the mailman. c) did not bit the mailman.
4. Your dog did not… a) bit that crocodile. b) beat the crocodile. c) bite the crocodile.
5. Santa Clause did not… a) bring me anything, last year. b) bring me nothing, last year. c)
brought me anything last year.
6. The Easter Bunny… a) bring me painted eggs. b) brought me painted eggs. c) bringed me
painted eggs.
7. My parrot did not… a) fly away with my cellphone. b) flew away with my cellphone. c)
fly away tomorrow.
8. Your parrot… a) flew over a cuckoo’s nest. b) flied over a cuckoo’s nest. c) did not flew
over a cuckoo’s nest.
9. Sandy… a) did not buy a new dress yesterday. b) buy a new dress yesterday. c) boughted
a new dress yesterday.
10. Mike… a) bought a new car next week. b) did not bought a new car last week. c) did
not buy a new car last month.

Exercise 213. Fill in the blanks with the verbs in parentheses (oh, yeah, the good old fill
in the blanks type of exercise!). Be careful to Mr. Did and to Mr. Did’s little friend, the
always negative not.
Last night, right after I ___________ (to turn) off the lights, I ____________ (to hear)
a strange noise coming from the kitchen. I ______________ (can, not) tell what it
__________ (to be), so I ____________ (to turn) on the light and ____________ (to head) to
the kitchen. When I ___________ (to get) there I ____________ (to notice) that the door of
the refrigerator _____________ (to be) open. Then, I ____________ (to see) Clumsy, my
dog, eating one of my sandwiches. “___________ I _____________ (to forget) to feed you
before going to bed? Oh. I am so sorry.” “No, you ______________________ (to forget, not)
to feed me tonight, but you __________________ (to give, not) me enough.” And, then, I
_________________ (to wake) up. “What a crazy dream! I _______________ (to dream)
that my dog _____________ (can) talk! That ______________ (to be) really crazy!” “Yes, it
_____________ (to be),” said my dog, from under my bed.

Exercise 214. Did you know that you can use just the word “did”, in some cases, to
express a negative… something? Just take a look at the models and then do the same.
Models: My cat ____ate____ (to eat) fish yesterday, but my dog___didn’t__ . He _did __
_not call_ (to call, not) her, but I __did__. ___Did__ you ___see__ see Mike yesterday?
___No, I didn’t / Yes, I did.__
1. ____ she ______________ (to say) hello to us? _________________/_______________
2. They _____________ (to leave) early in the morning, but I ___________
3. She __________________ (to win, not) anything, but I _________
4. ______ Serge __________ (to tell) you that we had a meeting this morning? __________
_____________/_________________________
5. _______ your parents ___________ (to give) you money for the movie? _____________/
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7. My father ______________ (to cry, not) when he ___________ (to see) Titanic, the
movie, but my mom __________
8. _____ you ___________ (to call) me a liar? _________________/___________________
9. They ___________ (to see) the car coming, but I ______________
10. ______ she ____________ (to wake) up at 7 a.m.? ______________/________________
Past Simple VS Present Perfect Simple

Past
Past Simple
Simple and
and Present
Present Perfect
Perfect Simple,
Simple, big,
big, big
big enemies.
enemies. If
If one
one come,
come,
the other have to leave. They have
the other have to leave. They have army: army:
Past
Past Simple
Simple have
have three
three generals:
generals: Mr.
Mr. Yesterday,
Yesterday, Mr.
Mr. Last
Last and
and Mr.
Mr. Ago.
Ago.
Present Perfect Simple have only one general, Mr.
Present Perfect Simple have only one general, Mr. This, but many This, but many
soldier:
soldier: Just,
Just, Already,
Already, Yet,
Yet, Lately,
Lately, Recently,
Recently, Since,
Since, For,
For, Never,
Never, Ever.
Ever.
So,
So, II teach
teach you
you reflex:
reflex: you
you see
see Past
Past Simple’s
Simple’s generals,
generals, you
you use
use Past
Past
Simple Tense. You see Present Perfect’s soldiers or the general, you use
Simple Tense. You see Present Perfect’s soldiers or the general, you use Present Present
Perfect
Perfect Tense.
Tense. Oss!
Oss!

Exercise 215. Do what the karate master above told you that you should do.
1. I _________________________ (to see) three movies this week.
2. ___________ you ever _____________ (to jump) off an airplane… without a parachute?
3. Mr. S. Leepy is very tired because he ___________________ (to sleep, not) last night.
4. I am rich because I __________ just ____________ (to win) the “paper-scissors-stone”
world championship!
5. I remember that, two years ago, I ___________________ (to forget) what I had done three
years before. I still do not remember what I ________________ (to do) five years ago.
6. My grandpa is still sad because, last Christmas, Santa __________________ (to forget)
to bring him a present.
7. _______ you ______________ (to watch) the match last night? It ____________ (to be)
awesome, dude! I am still bummed out by the fact that our team _______________ (to lose).
8. ________ she already _____________ (to finish) the race?! Man, she’s quick on the feet!
9. I _____________________________ (to travel) anywhere since… I was born.
10. Five years ago, when I __________________ (to be) in Belgium, I ________________
(to meet) my cousin, Barry.
11. So, what _________ you _________ (to do) yesterday? You ______________________
(to be supposed to) come to the meeting, but nobody ________________ (to see) you there.
12. Since when ___________ you ____________ (to have) this car? I remember that only
two months ago you ___________________ (to buy) a motorcycle.
13. My brother _____________________ (to visit) a lot of countries in Europe, lately, but I
__________ never ___________ left my country because I do not like to travel.
14. I __________________ (to live) in this town for five years. We ________________ (to
move) here, five years ago, because my father ________________ (to get) a better job.
15. _____________ they _____________ (to arrive, not), yet?! Or, even better: __________
they ever ______________ (to be) on time? We all know the answer. Last Monday, for
example, they ______________ (to be) one hour late!

Exercise 216. Make dialogues like the one in the model, using the given clues. Write
them in your notebooks.
Model
Anna: ride a horse – ever? Anna: “Have you ever ridden a horse?

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 Carl: yes Carl: “Yes, I have. I have ridden a horse.”
Anna: when? Anna: “When did you ride a horse?”
Carl: ride when – be in France Carl: “I rode it when I was in France.”

The glue table. Sorry, the clue table. Anyway, you are stuck with it. (Did you get it?
Clue… got stuck… Because of the clue… Good! Now, make the dialogues using the
clues below.)
1. Anna: see Mark – lately? 9. Anna: be chased by a dinosaur – ever?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: when?
Carl: see him – two days ago. Carl: be chased by it – last night, in my
dream.
2. Anna: swim in a river – ever? 10. Anna: seen any pink elephants – lately?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: when
Carl: swim in a river when – be a child Carl: see two pink elephants when – I be
in the country of Pinkelephantia
3. Anna: finish reading that book – already? 11. Anna: draw anything – recently?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: what and when?
Carl: finish it – last weekend Carl: draw a dinosaur – yesterday.
4. Anna: catch a cold – recently? 12. Anna: do anything crazy – ever?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: what and when?
Carl: catch a cold when – be in Kiev. Carl: jump off a bridge – visit China
5. Anna: fall asleep in a strange place – ever? 13. Anna: eat anything weird – ever?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: what and when?
Carl: fall asleep when – ride the Carl: eat sunflower seeds boiled in milk
motorcycle (tip: use Past Continuous here) when – be in Taiwan
6. Anna: drive a Ferrari – ever? 14. Anna: hear something scary – ever?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: what and when?
Carl: drive a Ferrari when – my father Carl: hear a lion roaring when – be in
lend it to me. my bathroom!
7. Anna: win a medal – ever? 15. Anna: see something interesting – lately?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: what and when?
Carl: win a medal when – I be the only Carl: see a bear riding an ant when – be
participant in a game on Mars.
8. Anna: break a glass – ever? 16. Anna: talk to somebody famous – ever?
Carl: yes Carl: yes
Anna: when? Anna: who and when?
Carl: break a glass when – I try to crack Carl: talk to the man in the mirror –
open a coconut with it. wash my face this morning in the bathroom.

Exercise 217. There is much mistake on the text bellow. Underline their and right the
text once more times on yours notebook. (Lol…)

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 I has many friends who did and did not a lot of things in their lives. For example,
Sam has climbed Mount Everest last week, but he never ate pizza, for example. George
cooked fish many times in his life, but last year, when I have asked him to go fishing with
me, he has refused me! Evelyn did never ate pizza, but she cooked pizza so many times, this
year, for her brother. Nick played in six movies since the beginning of this decade, but he did
ever play in a commercial. I myself did never made so many mistakes in a text, so far!
Exercitii de formare a reflexelor

Exercise 193
1 – forgets; 2 – takes; 3 – gives; 4 – watches; 5 – play; 6 – do; 8 – walk;
Exercise 194
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10,– Does…?; 5, 6, 8,– Do…?

Exercise 195
Simply remove letter “s” from the verb: 1 – Mary does not (doesn’t) ride… 2 – My dog
does not chase… 3 – That bird does not sing… etc.

Exercise 196
1 – has, have; 2 – have, have; 3 – has, has, have; 4 – have, have; 5 – have, have;

Exercise 197.
1 – doesn’t have, don’t have; 2 – don’t have, don’t have; 3 – doesn.t have, doesn’t have,
don’t have; 4 – don’t have, don’t have; 5 – don’t have, don’t have; 6 – doesn’t have,
doesn’t have;

Exercise 198
1 – runs; 2 – eats, doesn’t like; 3 – play; 4 – drink, are; Now, the questions. Only for 2.
From 3 to 8, you are on your own!
2) Abigail – Who eats five red apples every day, in the kitchen? Eats – What does Abigail
do every day, in the kitchen? Five – How many apples does she eat every day, in the
kitchen? Red – What kind of apples does Abigail eat every day, in the kitchen? Apples –
What does Abigail eat every day, in the kitchen? Every day – How often does she eat five
red apples, in the kitchen? In the kitchen – Where does she eat five red apples every day?
because… - Why does she eat five red apples every day, in the kitchen? She – Who likes to
eat red apples? To eat – what does she like to do every day, in the kitchen? Five – What
does she like to eat every day, in the kitchen? Red – What kind of apples does she like to eat
every day, in the kitchen? Apples – What does she like to eat every day, in the kitchen?
Every day – How often does she like to eat five red apples, in the kitchen? In the kitchen –
Where does she like to eat five read apples? D’oh – What did the author of this book write
after the sentence with Abigail and the apples? (Just kidding! You do not really need to make
a questions for that.)

Exercise oss. 200

1 – walks 2 – drinks; 3 – are talking; 4 – jumps; 5 – feed; 6 – is singing, are keeping; 7 –
finishes; 8 – clean, do, turns;

Exercise 201
1 – every day; 2 – now; 3 – every day; 4 – every day; 5 – every day;

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Exercise 208
Seriously? Do you really need to check the answers for that? Simply write “didn’t”, followed
by the first form of the verbs before. Check the list of irregular verbs.

Exercise 209 (only the hard ones)

2 – Did he turn off the light and went to bed? 4 – Did anybody tell him to leave? 10 – Did a
dog bite him when he was a child? 11 – Did their team beat our team?

Exercise 210
1 – wrote; 2 – broke, rode; 3 – bought, gave; 4 – bought, let, ruined; (…and so on; come
on, check irregular verbs list.)

Exercise 211.
I wanted…I went… took… check… rode… saw… wanted… work… stop… crashed…
broke… broke…

Exercise 212
1 – c; 2 – c; 3 – b; 4 – c; 5 – a;

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