REVISION TEST TENSES: PRES. SIMPLE, PRES. CONT.
, PAST SIMPLE
NAME: ___________________________________________
1) Read the senteces and complete with PRESENT SIMPLE or PRESENT CONTINUOUS
1. Listen! Sandra __________________(play) music!
2. On Sundays, I always __________________ (play) football with my friends.
3. I __________________(not/like) carrots.
4. She __________________ (hate) westerns.
5. Can you help Peter? He __________________(do) his homework.
6. What __________________ (you/watch) on TV? Is it interesting?
7. When I __________________ (go) back home, I will phone my girlfriend.
8. We usually __________________ (take) a taxi to go to work.
9. They __________________ (not/travel) a lot.
10. She __________________ (not/come). She is looking after her little sister.
11. The water __________________ (to boil). Can you turn it off ?
12. Let's go out. It __________________ (not/ rain) now.
13. My parents __________________ (to live) in London. They have lived there all their life.
14. I've lost my pen again. 'Not again ! ' You always __________________ (to lose) your pen.
15. 'You __________________ (to work) hard today.' 'Yes, I have a lot to do.'
2) Write sentences in the PAST SIMPLE
a. Mike / throw / the car keys / and Tina / catch / them
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b. What / you/ do/ last weekend?
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c. We / buy / Elena some perfume / for her birthday
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d. We all /feel ill/ after the meal
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e. Where / your father / live/ when / he / be/ a child?
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f. He /not understand French very well / the first time he / go / to/ Paris
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REVISION TEST TENSES: PRES. SIMPLE, PRES. CONT., PAST SIMPLE
NAME: ___________________________________________
3) Complete the sentences. Use PAST SIMPLE
a. He didnt leave at 10 yesterday. He .. At 11.
b. This morning we didnt have enough coffee, so I.. some more.
c. When she was a student, she didnt go to Oxford, she .. to
Cambridge.
d. I didnt fly direct to Chicago. I .. via London.
e. I didnt get the job I wanted. I .. A better one!
f. It didnt cost very much. It only .. $10.
g. While I was there, I .. Pierre but I didnt see Jean.
h. It didnt take very long. It only .. half an hour.
i. We didnt sell our house last month. We .. it two months ago.
j. She gave me the address but she .. me the phone number.
4) Make simple past questions with what, who, when and where:
a. ___________________________________________________ ? He saw somebody.
b. ___________________________________________________ ? John went to a party.
c. ___________________________________________________ ? Bill bought a car.
d. __________________________________________ ? Alice went to the cinema last Sunday.
e. ___________________________________________________ ? Mary broke a cup.
f. ___________________________________________________ ? Mike stayed at home.
5) Write five things that you didn't do yesterday.
a. ___________________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________________
d. ___________________________________________________________________
e. ___________________________________________________________________
6) Write five things that you did two years ago
a. ___________________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________________
d. ___________________________________________________________________
e. ___________________________________________________________________
