English Tenses

1. Watch the video from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom “Daisy and Poppy” and answer the questions below:

1. Where are Holly and her family going to get porridge from?

2. What did Nanny Plum teach the twins?

3. What is King Thistle afraid of?

4. Why did the flood happen again?

5. What were Nanny Plum’s first words?

6. How did Queen Thistle punish the twins?

7. What do King and Queen Thistle want Holly and her friends to do?

8. What does Fleur think about the twins?

9. What did Daisy do to Fleur?

10. Where are the twins not allowed to go?

11. What game are the children going to play?

12. How did the twins get Fleur’s wand and escape?

13. Why do Ben and Barnaby think they can find the twins?

14. Who helps the boys?

15. What does Mrs. Elf want to do when she sees Daisy and Poppy?

16. How did the children find the twins?

17. Why did Daisy and Poppy stop magicking?

18. Who wasn’t turned into animals?

19. Who broke the spells?

20. Does Wise Old Elf agree that no harm was done?

21. What did Wise Old Elf do after the girls turned Nanny into a frog?

22. Why does Queen Thistle think the twins have had a busy day?

23. What are the twins dreaming about?

2. Open the brackets and put the verbs into the correct form:

1. Nanny Plum ______ (teach) Daisy and Poppy a simple porridge spell.

2. Daisy and Poppy ______ (practice) so hard.

3. My friends ______ (come) round to play.

4. ___ you (want) to hold my wand?

5. I’m sure they ____ (not mean) to turn me into a kitten.

6. What’s that noise? It ____ (come) from over there.

7. Poppy, Daisy! What ______ you _____ (do)?

8. The little darlings ____ (get) really good at magic.

3. Name and explain the usage of tenses in these sentences:

1. Today, we’ll be having porridge for breakfast.

2. We will have this porridge cleared up in a flash.

3. Oh! I see your friends have brought a little kitten along.

4. That rabbit is wearing my dad’s hat.

5. Daisy and Poppy have been doing a bit of magicking.

6. I wonder what sweet little dreams they are having.

4. Correct the mistakes if any:

1. Daisy and Poppy practice their magic this morning.

2. When I was a baby the first words I had said was “Bang!”

3. I’m helping them count. I will be very good at counting.

4. I think we’ve found my little sisters.  

5. They were turning all the elves into rabbits.

6. Barnaby and Ben, had you seen the girls?

7. They turn us all into rabbits.

8. We won’t have needed any more magic today.

9. They had had a very busy day, Your Majesty.

5. Learn the words from the video HERE

6. Translate from Russian into English:

Articles. Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom.

Unit 59 – a/an  Тест

Unit 60 – flower/flowers (singular and plural) Тест

Unit 61 – a car/some money (countable/uncountable 1) Тест

Unit 62 – a car/some money (countable/uncountable 2) Тест

Unit 63 – a/an and the  Тест

Unit 64 – the  Тест

Unit 65 – go home/go to work/go to the cinema  Тест

Unit 66 – I like music I hate examinations  Тест

Unit 67 – the (names of places) Тест

1. Read the rules HERE and do the test HERE.

2. Watch the video from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 'The Royal Fairy Picnic' and answer the questions below:

 

1. What is the day perfect for?
2. Who loves picnics?
3. What is Nanny Plum going to make for pudding?
4. Does King Thistle want magic jelly for pudding?
5. What happened when they had jelly last year?
6. Who does Holly want to invite to the picnic?
7. Why can’t Holly invite Ben?
8. Why did King Thistle allow Holly to invite Ben?
9. What did Ben take with him?
10. Does Nanny Plum need help with the picnic basket?
11. Who did they meet on their way to the picnic spot?
12. Who can speak Ladybird language?
13. What does King Thistle think about Gaston?
14. Why is King Thistle surprised that Ben brought food to the picnic?
15. Why don’t they want to eat Ben’s food?
16. Where do the fairies get their food from?
17. Are the fairies happy with Ben’s choice of drinks?
18. What did Ben choose and why?
19. What drink did Gaston have?
20. Were the fairies happy with the portion of the jelly they got?
21. Why did the flood happen?
22. Can Nanny Plum use a stronger spell to stop the flood?
23. Why did King Thistle declare a Royal Emergency?
24. What happened to their food?
25. What happened to Ben’s food?
26. Has King Thistle ever eaten elf food before? Does he like it?

3. Fill in the gaps with articles:

1. This is ____ perfect day for ____ royal fairy picnic.

2. Come to _____ castle as quick as you can.

3. We’ve never had ____ elf on our royal picnic before.

4. It’s ____ magic basket.

5. I declare this ____ royal emergency.

6. Let’s sit and enjoy ____ view.

7. When you have _____ fairy picnic, always take ____ elf.

8. Ben, you can have anything you like in ____ whole wide world.

4. Explain the usage of articles in these sentences:

1. Mummy, can Ben come on the picnic?

2. Ben is an elf.

3. Nanny, try a stronger spell!

4. If you promise not to flood the entire kingdom with jelly like last year.

5. Ah, here we are - the royal picnic spot.

6. You mean you actually bring food with you to a picnic?

7. Ben, perhaps you would like to choose the drinks for the children.

8. I remember – the jelly flood.

9. I could use the stop magic spell.

5. Correct the mistakes (articles) if any:

1. I love the picnics.

2. We always have a magic jelly at the royal picnic.

3. I’ll put in a whole strawberry.

4. It’s a food for a picnic.

5. We can have the nice time without a picnic.

6. Oh, but a basket is empty! You’ve forgotten your food.

7. Magic basket, oh, so old, let’s have a fairy juice, sparkling and cold.

8. What do the ladybirds like to drink?

9. But, Nanny, you said fairies don’t eat the elf food.

6. Learn the words from the video HERE.

7. Translate from Russian into English:

8. Do an exercises on Articles HERE