Tenses and time expressions - grammar lesson 5

Tenses and time expressions – polar test

Level: Pre-intermediate / A2

Put the verb in brackets into the correct tense – Present simple, Present Continuous or future (going to or will). If there is no verb, use if, when, or as soon as.

British explorer Robin Drake says the first international polar expedition ¹                          (start) next week. They ²                                    (try) to reach the North Pole on a 65-day, 480-mile journey. ³                                   Drake ⁴                                      (succeed), he ⁵                                     (be) the first man to walk to both the North and South poles.

Drake ⁶                                    (go) on the Icewalk Expedition with navigator Alan Winterson. ⁷                           they ⁸                                       (arrive) in Thule, in northern Greenland, walkers from Russia, the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada and Italy ⁹                          (join) them. ¹⁰                                     they ¹¹                                      (get) to their base camp, Eueka, inside the Arctic Circle, they ¹²                                           (have to) build huts to protect them from temperatures as low as -55 Celsius.

‘We ¹³                                      (do) a lot of experiments to see how much pollution there is in the area,’ said Robin. ‘The results ¹⁴                                      (help) us to understand the effects of pollution on the planet, including the greenhouse effect.’ ¹⁵                          the weather ¹⁶                         (be) good enough, they ¹⁷                                          (make) a film of the expedition. Robin said,’ ¹⁸                                we ¹⁹                           (get) back home, we ²⁰                            (show) it to people all over the world.’

Adapted from New Headway Pre-intermediate, OUP

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British explorer Robin Drake says the first international polar expedition ¹IS GOING TO START next week. They ²ARE GOING TO TRY to reach the North Pole on a 65-day, 480-mile journey. ³ IF Drake ⁴ SUCCEEDS, he ⁵ WILL BE the first man to walk to both the North and South poles.

Drake ⁶IS GOING on the Icewalk Expedition with navigator Alan Winterson. ⁷WHEN/AS SOON AS they ⁸ARRIVE in Thule, in northern Greenland, walkers from Russia, the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada and Italy ⁹WILL JOIN them. ¹⁰WHEN/AS SOON AS they ¹¹GET to their base camp, Eueka, inside the Arctic Circle, they ¹²WILL HAVE TO BUILD huts to protect them from temperatures as low as -55 Celsius.

‘We ¹³ARE GOING TO DO a lot of experiments to see how much pollution there is in the area,’ said Robin. ‘The results ¹⁴WILL HELP us to understand the effects of pollution on the planet, including the greenhouse effect.’ ¹⁵IF the weather ¹⁶IS good enough, they ¹⁷WILL/ARE GOING TO MAKE a film of the expedition. Robin said,’ ¹⁸AS SOON AS       we ¹⁹GET back home, we ²⁰WILL SHOW it to people all over the world.’