Portfolio Task 2.7
How does the past perfect differ from present perfect? Include a timeline illustration in your answer.
Reflective Learning Journal Task 2.7
Look back at the unit and write as many sentences as possible using different tenses to express the future.
Questions to Unit Two
What are the names of these tenses:
He has been working all day
She is going to have a great time in Barbados
The police are looking for a tall, dark-haired man with a limp
What have you done?
The men went into the dark tunnel reluctantly
It will have been raining on and off for two months
The girl was driving too fast
They had argued all day
2) Is the word ‘table’ an example of:
a) a proper noun
b) a collective noun
c) a common noun
3) Is the word ‘from’:
a) a possessive pronoun
b) a preposition
c) an article
4) What is the past participle of the verb ‘to wash’?
5) Is the following:
“If I were you, I’d take the train, not the bus”
an example of:
a) first conditional
b) second conditional
c) third conditional
Give examples of the other conditionals.
6) What kind of adjective is ‘blue’?
7) What is the name given to verbs such as:
can/ will/ shall/ must/ought to/ etc
Give further examples and describe what the function of these words are and compare their uses.
8) Is ‘money’ a countable or uncountable noun? Make a short list of other examples of both types.
9) What is the comparative and superlative form of ‘sad’?
10) Name two types of objects found in sentences and give examples of each.
11) Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense and name the tenses you used:
Tom Wilson 1) .......(be) an explorer. He 2) ………….(be) to nearly every country in the world, but the most exciting time he 3) …………………………. (ever/have) was when he 4) …………………… (go) to the Congo jungle. A magazine 5)………………….. (ask)him to retrace the route of a famous explorer who 6) …………………. (disappear) in the1920's. As he 7)
……………….(follow) a small river he got separated from his guides. He8)
…………………………. (go on) alone, hoping he 9) ………………….. (find) them, but instead he 10) ………………… (encounter) a group of natives. He 11)
…............... (stay)with them for several days and 12) …………………….. (find out) that a very old woman13) ……………………(actually/meet) the famous explorer. She 14) …………… (know) how he 15) …………………………….(die).
Tom 16) ………………………….(become) very friendly with the natives and now he 17) …………………………… (plan) to go back and see them again. He is sure they 18) …………………………………..(welcome) him back.
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