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1. How much homework did you do last night?

How much homework did you do last night?2.Who did you travel with to school today?

How much homework did you do last night?2.Who did you travel with to school today?3. Where did you meet your best friend?

How much homework did you do last night?2.Who did you travel with to school today?3. Where did you meet your best friend?4. Who was your first English teacher?

How much homework did you do last night?2.Who did you travel with to school today?3. Where did you meet your best friend?4. Who was your first English teacher?İyi dersler 🙂

English Grammar Exercises for A2 – Past simple (negative and interrogative)

1. Complete the sentences with the correct negative past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

1 We ………………………….. (get) to the hotel in time for dinner.

2 Our team ………………………….. (win) the last match of the season.

3 It was a long film, but I ………………………….. (feel) bored.

4 They ………………………….. (spend) all their money on holiday.

5 My aunt ………………………….. (be) at the family wedding last weekend.

6 Our teacher ………………………….. (give) us a lot of homework.

7 It ………………………….. (rain) at all last month.

8 I enjoyed the film, but I ………………………….. (can) understand all of the dialogue.

Answer

1 didn’t get 2 didn’t win 3 didn’t feel 4 didn’t spend

5 wasn’t 6 didn’t give 7 didn’t rain 8 couldn’t

2. Complete the first part of each sentence with the correct past simple negative form.

1 I didn’t go skiing last winter, I went snowboarding.

2 Einstein ………………………….. in 1965, he died in 1955.

3 The holidays ………………………….. yesterday, they began last week.

4 My grandparents ………………………….. born in Russia, they were born in Germany.

5 I ………………………….. ‘thirteen’, I said ‘thirty’.

6 We ………………………….. the first half of the match, but we saw the second half.

7 At the age of five, I ………………………….. ride a bike, but I could ski.

8 It ………………………….. warm yesterday, but it was sunny.

Answer

2 didn’t die 3 didn’t begin 4 weren’t born

5 didn’t say 6 didn’t see 7 couldn’t

8 wasn’t

3. Make these sentences true for you. Use the past simple affirmative or negative form of the verbs in brackets.

1 I ………………………….. (can) swim when I was five.

2 Last weekend, I ………………………….. (do) a lot of homework.

3 Five years ago, I ………………………….. (be) a student at this school.

4 Ten years ago, I ………………………….. (live) in a different town.

5 I ………………………….. (make) my own breakfast this morning.

6 I ………………………….. (choose) the clothes I’m wearing now.

7 Last night, I ………………………….. (go) out with my friends.

8 When I was six, I ………………………….. (study) English.

Answer

1 could / couldn’t 2 did / didn’t do 3 was / wasn’t

4 lived / didn’t live 5 made / didn’t make

6 chose / didn’t choose 7 went / didn’t go

8 studied / didn’t study

4. Complete the dialogue with the question words below.

how often what when where which who why

Mia Hi, Henry. 1…………………………… did you do at the weekend?

Henry I went to the beach on Saturday.

Mia That’s nice! 2…………………………… did you go with?

Henry Matt and Alex.

Mia Alex West? 3…………………………… do you see him?

Henry Only two or three times a year. He doesn’t live near here any more.

Mia 4…………………………… does he live now?

Henry In London.

Mia Does he? 5…………………………… part of London?

Henry I’m not sure. North London, I think.

Mia 6…………………………… did he move?

Henry I think his mum got a new job. Anyway, 7…………………………… did you last see him?

Mia Oh, about two years ago.

Answer

1 What 2 Who 3 how often 4 Where 5 Which

6 Why 7 when

5. Put the words in order to make questions. Then write answers that are true for you.

Answer

1 how much homework did you do last night?

2 Who did you travel to school with today?

3 Where did you meet your best friend?

4 Who was your first English teacher?

Students’ own answers

6. Read the sentences. Then write questions for the given answers.

1 Jack gave his old bike to his sister.

Q: What did Jack give his sister?

2 Sam had dinner early because he was hungry.

A: He was hungry.

3 Mason and Tyler went to London together.

A: He went with Tyler.

4 Grace listened to three Lady Gaga CDs.

Answer

2 Why did Samuel have dinner early?

3 Who did mason go to London with?

4 how many Lady Gaga CDs did Grace listen to?

7. Complete the dialogues with the correct negative or interrogative past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

1 A 1……………………… (you / go) to the cinema last night?

B No, I 2……………………… (go) in the end. I got home from work so late that there 3……………………… (be) enough time.

2 A They announced the winners of the art competition yesterday. 4……………………… (you / win) a prize?

B No, I 5……………………… (win) anything, but I 6……………………… (expect) to. I’m not very good at art.

3 A 7……………………… (David / tell) you his news when you spoke to him yesterday?

B No, he 8……………………… (say) much – just hello and goodbye.

A Well, he 9……………………… (pass) his exams. Maybe he 10……………………… (want) you to know.

Answer

1 Did you go; didn’t go; wasn’t

2 Did you win; didn’t win; didn’t expect

3 Did David tell; didn’t say; passed; didn’t want

1)If … (you / do) your homework last night, you‟d know the answer to this question?

1)If … (you / do) your homework last night, you‟d know the answer to this question!

2)We …… (not / stand) by the side of the road at the moment trying to get a lift if … (we / bring) a spare tyre with us.

3)If I … (not / stay up) so late last night, I …(not / feel) so tired this morning!

4)……… (I / be) in terrible trouble right now if you … (not / help) me.

5)If I had a video recorder, … (I / record) the match last night.

6)…… (I / ask) for Andy‟s phone number when I met him if I … (not / already / have) a boyfriend!

7)If Cody…(not / live) so far away, he… (not / be) so late to the barbecue yesterday.

8)Trace … (not / need) extra lessons last month if she … (be) as good at maths as you are.

9)…… (you / got) a job when you left school if the university … (not / offer) you a place?

10)If you … (have) as much money as she does, … (you / retire) by

1. you had done2.

Would not stand, if we had brought3.

Hadn’t stayed up, wouldn’t feel4.

I would be, hadn’t helped5.

Would have recorded6.

Would have asked, hadn’t already have7.

Hadn’t lived ; he wouldn’t have been8.

Wouldn’t have needed, had been9.

Would have got, hadn’t offered10.

Had, would you retire.

Измените по образцу?

Измените по образцу.

I did not go out yesterday.

I (not to have) English last term / I (not play) computer games.

She (not go) to the party.

We (not watch) TV.

Измените по образцу What did you do in the evening?

When you (to have) breakfast yesterday?

What you (read) in the evening?

Where she (go) yesterday?

Помогите пожалуйста?

(travel / visit) If you.

The gate, the dog.

(not close / run) If you.

(feel / have) If she.

The time off work, she.

(gets / travel) If my boss.

(not like / not get).

Open the brackets and use the verb in the right tense?

Open the brackets and use the verb in the right tense.

1) We (to pass) the examination if we study hard.

2) If you (to go) to see this film, you will have a good time.

3) If he (play) sport, he will live longer.

4) She (not to be) an architect if she doesn’t go to university.

5) They (to ring) us if we give them our phone number.

6) If we (not to solve) the problem, we won’t get the prize.

7) If we (not to go) now, we (to miss) the bus.

8) You (to be) tired if you (not to sleep).

9) If the Spanish team (to get) to the final match, they (to be) the World Champions.

10) If you (to help) me, I (to give) you a lot of money.

If you (finish) in time you wouldn’t have been late?

If you (finish) in time you wouldn’t have been late.

The day(be) fine if they hadn’t argued.

If we( recucle) the litter the environment (be) cleaner.

If you (not, come) so early they (not, get up).

What you (do) if you (win) a lottery?

If i (be) you i never (ask) him for help.

What you (do) if the computer hadn’t worked?

If (be) better if you didn’t go there.

CONDITIONAL || ||| помогите пож.

1 Write the correct form of the verb in brackets?

1 Write the correct form of the verb in brackets.

1) If we buy a car, we (not have to) travel by train.

2) If you go to a party, I’m sure you (have) a good time.

3) When you (run) fast, you get tired.

4) I’ll wash the dishes if you (cook) dinner.

5) I take my umbrella whenever it (rain).

6) If you (not study), you may fall the test.

7) If she (not sleep) enough, she (get) tired.

8) I (invite) all my friends if I have a party.

9) I (buy) you a present if I have enough money.

10) Cars (not pollute) the air if people Ответ (invent) new fuel.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets?

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. if you___ (do) that again, i ____ (tell) the others.

2. you ___(get) wet if you ___(not take) an umbrella.

3. if i ___ (get) the job, i ___ (tell) you at once.

4. you ____ (not get) a job if you ____ (not look) for one.

5. ___(you call) me if the train ___ (be) late?

6. it ___(not work) if you ____(not switch) it on.

Помогите, пожалуйста))Раскройте скобки, употребив нужную форму глагола в придаточных условных предложениях?

Раскройте скобки, употребив нужную форму глагола в придаточных условных предложениях.

1. Не would bring you this magazine if you (to ask) him.

2. Everybody would have understood him if he (to speak) English.

3. You could have bought a ticket if you (to come) to the station earlier.

4. If it not (to be) so late I´ll phone him.

5. You would understand the main idea if you (to read) the issue carefully.

6. If it not (to be) so expensive I´ll buy this magazine.

8. You could have seen this picture if you (to visit) this exhibition last week.

10. You could have seen this picture if you (to visit) this exhibition last week.

White (fly) to London, she (visit) Big Ben.

4. You (miss) the bus if you (not to hurry).

5. The child (not / be) healthy if you (not / give) him much fruit.

Ебят кто знает инглиш помогите?

Ебят кто знает инглиш помогите.

Вот задание : Make sentences with wish / if only for these situations.

Вот сами предложения : You are not very good at singing.

You argued with your parents last night.

You do not have any friends abroad.

You ears are too big.

You did ot pay attention in the math lesson.

You d not understand your maths homerwork.

Помогите сложить предложения?

Помогите сложить предложения!

1)we / wait for you / if / you / be / late

2)if / you / be / hungry / I / make you a sandwich

3)if / Jack / not / practise / they / not / play well

5)I / help you with your Maths / if / you / not / understand it.

1) we were waiting for the train on the platform. 2)we ussuslly have a breakfast at 9 o’clock. 7) lf they ho to Kyiv, they will visit many musseums. 8) l will dance if they played my favourite song 9)Go to the kitchen.

Ex 2 1. D 2. E 3. B 4. A 5. F 6. C Ex 3 2. Shorter 3. Bigger 4. Older / Elder 5. Younger 6. More comfortable.

1. Kazakhstan, Astana. 2. very big country 3. Many 4. Kazakh.

1) Great Britain / London 2) busy city 3)8 million 4) english.

1 1) If it (is not) too cold, I (not put) on my coat. 2) I (will write) the composition if you (do not disturb) me. 3) His vocabulary (will increase) greatly if he ( reads) fifty pages. 4) You (will go) to the Philarmonic much more often if you re..

1) used to go swimming 2) was dancing 3) were you laughing 4) used to drink 5) rode 6) was writing 7) was raining 8) used to play 9) Sang 10) was cleaning.

Are is are aren’t are isn’t is aren’t are isn’t is is.

1)I spend the time of my life right 2)The wall is very dense 3)The mouth of the river is its end 4)We make our way through the storm 5)We will win and get the main winning.

Do our kids have too much homework?

by: Marian Wilde | Updated: January 14, 2022

Many students and their parents are frazzled by the amount of homework being piled on in the schools. Yet researchers say that American students have just the right amount of homework.

“Kids today are overwhelmed!” a parent recently wrote in an email to GreatSchools.org “My first-grade son was required to research a significant person from history and write a paper of at least two pages about the person, with a bibliography. How can he be expected to do that by himself? He just started to learn to read and write a couple of months ago. Schools are pushing too hard and expecting too much from kids.”

Diane Garfield, a fifth grade teacher in San Francisco, concurs. “I believe that we’re stressing children out,” she says.

But hold on, it’s not just the kids who are stressed out. “Teachers nowadays assign these almost college-level projects with requirements that make my mouth fall open with disbelief,” says another frustrated parent. “It’s not just the kids who suffer!”

“How many people take home an average of two hours or more of work that must be completed for the next day?” asks Tonya Noonan Herring, a New Mexico mother of three, an attorney and a former high school English teacher. “Most of us, even attorneys, do not do this. Bottom line: students have too much homework and most of it is not productive or necessary.”

Homework studies

How do educational researchers weigh in on the issue? According to Brian Gill, a senior social scientist at the Rand Corporation, there is no evidence that kids are doing more homework than they did before.

“If you look at high school kids in the late ’90s, they’re not doing substantially more homework than kids did in the ’80s, ’70s, ’60s or the ’40s,” he says. “In fact, the trends through most of this time period are pretty flat. And most high school students in this country don’t do a lot of homework. The median appears to be about four hours a week.”

Education researchers like Gill base their conclusions, in part, on data gathered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests.

“It doesn’t suggest that most kids are doing a tremendous amount,” says Gill. “That’s not to say there aren’t any kids with too much homework. There surely are some. There’s enormous variation across communities. But it’s not a crisis in that it’s a very small proportion of kids who are spending an enormous amount of time on homework.”

Etta Kralovec, author of The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning, disagrees, saying NAEP data is not a reliable source of information. “Students take the NAEP test and one of the questions they have to fill out is, ‘How much homework did you do last night’ Anybody who knows schools knows that teachers by and large do not give homework the night before a national assessment. It just doesn’t happen. Teachers are very clear with kids that they need to get a good night’s sleep and they need to eat well to prepare for a test.

“So asking a kid how much homework they did the night before a national test and claiming that that data tells us anything about the general run of the mill experience of kids and homework over the school year is, I think, really dishonest.”

Further muddying the waters is a AP/AOL poll that suggests that most Americans feel that their children are getting the right amount of homework. It found that 57% of parents felt that their child was assigned about the right amount of homework, 23% thought there was too little and 19% thought there was too much.

One indisputable fact

One homework fact that educators do agree upon is that the young child today is doing more homework than ever before.

“Parents are correct in saying that they didn’t get homework in the early grades and that their kids do,” says Harris Cooper, professor of psychology and director of the education program at Duke University.

Gill quantifies the change this way: “There has been some increase in homework for the kids in kindergarten, first grade and second grade. But it’s been an increase from zero to 20 minutes a day. So that is something that’s fairly new in the last quarter century.”

The history of homework

In his research, Gill found that homework has always been controversial. “Around the turn of the 20th century, the Ladies’ Home Journal carried on a crusade against homework. They thought that kids were better off spending their time outside playing and looking at clouds. The most spectacular success this movement had was in the state of California, where in 1901 the legislature passed a law abolishing homework in grades K-8. That lasted about 15 years and then was quietly repealed. Then there was a lot of activism against homework again in the 1930s.”

The proponents of homework have remained consistent in their reasons for why homework is a beneficial practice, says Gill. “One, it extends the work in the classroom with additional time on task. Second, it develops habits of independent study. Third, it’s a form of communication between the school and the parents. It gives parents an idea of what their kids are doing in school.”

The anti-homework crowd has also been consistent in their reasons for wanting to abolish or reduce homework.

“The first one is children’s health,” says Gill. “A hundred years ago, you had medical doctors testifying that heavy loads of books were causing children’s spines to be bent.”

The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems. There were also concerns about excessive amounts of stress.

“Although they didn’t use the term ‘stress,’” says Gill. “They worried about ‘nervous breakdowns.’”

“In the 1930s, there were lots of graduate students in education schools around the country who were doing experiments that claimed to show that homework had no academic value – that kids who got homework didn’t learn any more than kids who didn’t,” Gill continues. Also, a lot of the opposition to homework, in the first half of the 20th century, was motivated by a notion that it was a leftover from a 19th-century model of schooling, which was based on recitation, memorization and drill. Progressive educators were trying to replace that with something more creative, something more interesting to kids.”

The more-is-better movement

Garfield, the San Francisco fifth-grade teacher, says that when she started teaching 30 years ago, she didn’t give any homework. “Then parents started asking for it,” she says. “I got In junior high and high school there’s so much homework, they need to get prepared.” So I bought that one. I said, ‘OK, they need to be prepared.’ But they don’t need two hours.”

Cooper sees the trend toward more homework as symptomatic of high-achieving parents who want the best for their children. “Part of it, I think, is pressure from the parents with regard to their desire to have their kids be competitive for the best universities in the country. The communities in which homework is being piled on are generally affluent communities.”

Homework guidelines

What’s a parent to do, you ask? Fortunately, there are some sanity-saving homework guidelines.

Cooper points to “The 10-Minute Rule” formulated by the National PTA and the National Education Association, which suggests that kids should be doing about 10 minutes of homework per night per grade level. In other words, 10 minutes for first-graders, 20 for second-graders and so on.

Too much homework vs. the optimal amount

Cooper has found that the correlation between homework and achievement is generally supportive of these guidelines. “We found that for kids in elementary school there was hardly any relationship between how much homework young children did and how well they were doing in school, but in middle school the relationship is positive and increases until the kids were doing between an hour to two hours a night, which is right where the 10-minute rule says it’s going to be optimal.

“After that it didn’t go up anymore. Kids that reported doing more than two hours of homework a night in middle school weren’t doing any better in school than kids who were doing between an hour to two hours.”

Garfield has a very clear homework policy that she distributes to her parents at the beginning of each school year. “I give one subject a night. It’s what we were studying in class or preparation for the next day. It should be done within half an hour at most. I believe that children have many outside activities now and they also need to live fully as children. To have them work for six hours a day at school and then go home and work for hours at night does not seem right. It doesn’t allow them to have a childhood.”

International comparisons

How do American kids fare when compared to students in other countries? Professors Gerald LeTendre and David Baker of Pennsylvania State University conclude in their 2005 book, National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling, that American middle-schoolers do more homework than their peers in Japan, Korea or Taiwan, but less than their peers in Singapore and Hong Kong.

One of the surprising findings of their research was that more homework does not correlate with higher test scores. LeTendre notes: “That really flummoxes people because they say, ‘Doesn’t doing more homework mean getting better scores?’ The answer quite simply is no.”

Homework is a complicated thing

To be effective, homework must be used in a certain way, he says. “Let me give you an example. Most homework in the fourth grade in the U.S. is worksheets. Fill them out, turn them in, maybe the teacher will check them, maybe not. That is a very ineffective use of homework. An effective use of homework would be the teacher sitting down and thinking ‘Elizabeth has trouble with number placement, so I’m going to give her seven problems on number placement.’ Then the next day the teacher sits down with Elizabeth and she says, ‘Was this hard for you? Where did you have difficulty?’ Then she gives Elizabeth either more or less material. As you can imagine, that kind of homework rarely happens.”

Shotgun homework

“What typically happens is people give what we call ‘shotgun homework’: blanket drills, questions and problems from the book. On a national level that’s associated with less well-functioning school systems,” he says. “In a sense, you could sort of think of it as a sign of weaker teachers or less well-prepared teachers. Over time, we see that in elementary and middle schools more and more homework is being given, and that countries around the world are doing this in an attempt to increase their test scores, and that is basically a failing strategy.”

Additional resources

Books

The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning by Etta Kralovec and John Buell, Beacon Press, 2001.

The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents by Harris M. Cooper, Corwin Press, 2001.

Seven Steps to Homework Success: A Family Guide to Solving Common Homework Problems by Sydney Zentall and Sam Goldstein, Specialty Press, 1998.

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6.1. Choose the correct form of the underlined verb to be and translate
the sentences into Russian.
1. It is / are 10 o’clock. Is / are your aunt late again? →
2. How is / are you? I am not / aren’t very well today. →
3. We is / are interested in modern music. →
4. I was / were depressed last Sunday. The weather was / were terrible. →
5. The neighbours wasn’t / weren’t happy because our children was / were too
noisy yesterday. →

6.2. Choose the correct form of the underlined verb to have and translate
the sentences into Russian.
1. I am going to the dentist. I have / has toothache. →
2. I have / had too many toys in my childhood. →
3. They don’t have / doesn’t have any children. →
4. How much money do he have / does he have? →
5. Tom has / have a pen but we has / have no paper.→

7. Choose the correct form of the underlined verbs in the present simple
tense and translate the sentences into Russian
1. I like / likes films. I often go / goes to the cinema. →
2. Jeans are expensive. They cost / costs a lot of money. →
3. His job is very interesting. He meet / meets a lot of people every day. →
4. Sue drink / drinks green tea but she don’t drink / doesn’t drink coffee. →
5. I don’t know / doesn’t know much about politics. →
6. They usually go / goes to work by car but sometimes they walk / walks. →
7. Do it rain / Does it rain a lot where you live? →
8. How often do you wash / does you wash your hair? →

9. Choose the correct form of the underlined verbs in the present continuous
tense and translate the sentences into Russian
1. Excuse me, but you sitting / are sitting in my place. →
2. Mr Smith is cleaning / are cleaning his yard now. →
3. At the moment I am not do / am not doing my homework.→
4. Oh, Boys and girls making / are making a lot of noise. →
5. What is she do / is she doing at the moment? →
6. What are they talk / are they talking about? →
7. Listen! Somebody is singing / are singing. →
8. Does he driving / is he driving a bus now? →

6.1. Choose the correct form of the underlined verb to be and translate
the sentences into Russian.
1. It is 10 o’clock. Is your aunt late again? →
2. How are you? I am not very well today. →
3. We are interested in modern music. →
4. I was depressed last Sunday. The weather was terrible. →
5. The neighbours weren’t happy because our children were too
noisy yesterday. →

6.2. Choose the correct form of the underlined verb to have and translate
the sentences into Russian.
1. I am going to the dentist. I have a toothache. →
2. I had too many toys in my childhood. →
3. They don’t have any children. →
4. How much money does he have? →
5. Tom has a pen but we have no paper.→

7. Choose the correct form of the underlined verbs in the present simple
tense and translate the sentences into Russian
1. I like films. I often go to the cinema. →
2. Jeans are expensive. They cost a lot of money. →
3. His job is very interesting. He meets a lot of people every day. →
4. Sue drinks green tea but she doesn’t drink coffee. →
5. I don’t know much about politics. →
6. They usually go to work by car but sometimes they walk. →
7. Does it rain a lot where you live? →
8. How often do you wash your hair? →

9. Choose the correct form of the underlined verbs in the present continuous
tense and translate the sentences into Russian
1. Excuse me, but you are sitting in my place. →
2. Mr Smith is cleaning his yard now. →
3. At the moment I am not doing my homework.→
4. Oh, Boys and girls are making a lot of noise. →
5. What is she doing at the moment? →
6. What are they talking about? →
7. Listen! Somebody is singing. →
8. Is he driving a bus now? →