A. Change the verbs/be in the brackets in the correct orders of SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
Activity 1
Great Wall of China
Great Wall of China (1).…….(be) the longest structure ever built. Its total length-including loops and branches-is about 4,500 miles (7,240 kilometers), and it was erected entirely by hand. The main line (2) ……………..(stretch) about 2,500 miles (4,020 kilometers) across northern China. The eastern end of the main line is at Shanhaiguan, a town near Qinhuangdao on the coast of the Bo Gulf. In the west, the main line ends in the Lop Nur region of the Xinjiang province.
Description. Parts of the Great Wall have crumbled through the years. However, much of it (3)…………(remain), and some sections have been restored. One of the most visited sections of the Great Wall, on Mount Badaling, near Beijing, (4)…………..(rise) to about 35 feet (11 meters) high. This section (5) …………….(be) about 25 feet (7.6 meters) wide at its base and nearly 20 feet (6 meters) at the top. Watchtowers stand about 100 to 200 yards (91 to 180 meters) apart along the wall. The towers, about 40 feet (12 meters) high, once served as lookout posts.
In the east, the wall (6) …………(wind) through the mountainous Mongolian Border Uplands. This part of the wall (7) ………..(have) a foundation of granite blocks. It (8) ……….(have) sides of stone or brick, and the inside of the wall is filled with earth. The top is paved with bricks set in mortar. The bricks form a road that was used by the workers who built the wall and by the soldiers who defended it.
Farther west, the Great Wall (9) ……………..(run) through hilly areas and along the borders of deserts. Stone and brick were scarce in these hilly and desert areas, and so the workers used earth to build this section of the wall. They moistened the earth and pounded it to make it solid.
(Adapted from : world book 2004)
B. Linking verbs
Great Wall of China is the longest structure ever built
The word “ is “ is called relating verb/linking verb. It functions to give information about the things,
place or person we describe
A. Examples of Relating verbs
Be ( is, am, are, was, were) seem taste
Have feel appear
Look become grow
The date tree grows taller and taller
The Jakarta was built in 1700’s
Activity 2
Fill in the blank with the suitable relating verbs from the box above.
1. The rose ____________ red and white.
2. The radio __________ produced in 2001.
3. The coffee ____________ bitter.
4. The old widow _________lonely
5. My town _________ a big city now. It grew from a little village till a big city.
6. The little boy ____________taller and taller now.
7. The little girl __________tired. She walks in tottery
8. The jasmine flowers _________ fragrant
C. Passive construction.
From the text in activity 5 we have sentence such as:
……and it was erected entirely by hand
The top is paved with bricks set in mortar
The bricks form a road that was used by the workers who ….
The underlined is called passive sentence. The passive sentence in English is composed by two elements: the appropriate form of the verb “to be + the past participle of the verb being discussed. The rules is as the following
Subject Verb “to be” Past participle
Simple present
The great wall is painted every month
Present continuous
The great wall Is being painted at present
Simple past
The great wall was painted two days ago
Past continuous
The great wall Was being painted last week
Present perfect
The great wall Has been painted for a week
Past perfect
The great wall Had been painted before the US president arrived
Future
The great wall Will be painted next month
Activity 3
Change verbs in the bracket into passive form
Big Ben, the name (1) ………….(give) by the people of London to the bell, clock, and clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster in London. The tower, also called St. Stephen's Tower, stands 316 feet (96 meters) tall.
The clock weighs about 51/2 tons (5 metric tons). Each of the four clock faces is 23 feet (7 meters) in diameter. Each hour hand is 9 feet (2.7 meters) long, and each minute hand is 14 feet (4.3 meters) long. The numbers are 2 feet (0.6 meter) high. The bell (2)………….( can, hear) at a distance of 9 miles (14 kilometers).
The tower (3) ……………(complete) in 1858, after an 1834 fire destroyed most of the original Palace of Westminster. The name Big Ben at first referred to the bell in the tower. Some historians believe the bell (4) …………..( name) after Sir Benjamin Hall, commissioner of works when the tower (5) …………(build).
(adapted from : world book 2004)
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