This document contains an English language lesson about tenses and auxiliary verbs. It provides examples of sentences using different tenses like present simple, past simple, and present perfect. It also defines common auxiliary verbs like do, be, and have and provides examples of their uses in forming sentences and questions. It includes several jokes that students are meant to complete by selecting the correct auxiliary verb form.

1. GRAĐEVINSKA TEHNIČKA ŠKOLA
Beograd
PREDMET: ENGLESKI JEZIK
NASTAVNA JEDINICA: TENSES AND AUXILIARY VERBS
PREDMETNI NASTAVNIK: VESNA MARKOVIĆ

2. TENSES AND AUXILIARY
VERBS
Vremena i pomoćni
glagoli

3. Can you guess the tense?

4. He likes chewing gum.
Present Simple

5. They are swimming in the sea.
Present Continuous

6. I saw colorful fish
in the lake yesterday.
Past Simple

7. I was jogging in the park
when somebody stopped me.
Past continuous

8. I have eaten 10 apples today!
Present Perfect

9. I will come before midnight.
Future Simple

10. AUXILIARY VERBS
Do you know any?

11. DO
BE
HAVE
They are used to form
tenses and to show forms
such as questions and
negatives.

12. Use do, does, don't or doesn't
to complete the jokes:
What type of car ………your dad
drive?
• I ……….know the name, but it
starts with a "P".
• That's strange, our car starts
with a key.

13. …………. you ever have
problems making up your
mind?
• Well, yes and no.

14. Dad, ……….a dishwasher wash
dishes?
• Yes, Billy. That's right.
• And ………. a bus driver drive
buses?
• Yes.
• And ……….. a weightlifter lift
weights?
• Yes. Why all the questions?
• Well,……….. shoplifters lift
shops?

15. Mum, ……………God go to the
bathroom?
• No, son, why …………..you ask?
• Well, every morning dad goes to
the bathroom, knocks on the
door and shouts,
• "Oh God! Are you still in there?"

16. Complete the jokes by using
was, were, wasn't or weren't:
You …….. cheating at cards
tonight.
• But how did you know that I
…….. cheating?
• Because you ……. playing with
the cards I gave you.

17. Two cannibals …… walking along
the road when they saw a long
line of people at a bus stop.
One said to the other, "Oh, look,
do you fancy a barbeque?"

18. • Two very drunk men ……. trying
to find their way home, but they
were lost. They ….. staggering
along a railway line. "This is a
very long staircase," said the
first one. "My legs are killing
me!"
• The second drunk …… holding
his back. "And the handrail is so
low my back is killing me!

19. • A young man …… standing on a
bus. He ……… chewing gum.
An old man ……. sitting opposite
him. After five minutes the old
man shouted at him, "It's no
good talking to me. I'm deaf."