ary Verbal Part I Subject in sngluar You Participle Subject in paral : 5. Tam singing. ‘They are playing, "Ff the blank with Present Contcwous Tens: The fst sentence ‘has been done for you, 41. The soup in the pot (bol) is boing now. See 2. John (wash) the car now. —____ 3. He (ook) for his purse now. — we 4. Paul (rush) into the staff room at this very moment, ———e 5. We (discuss) the Problem with Mr Chan now, sa 6. They (wait) for their friends at the cinema now. ——— 7. Mother (cook) while you (read) the book. —— tipi a 8. Oh! My hand (bleed) . es 9. Look! The hut (bum) . eee 10. While I (cross) ___ the road, I s0e him. 11, Peter (feed) the puppies now, a 12, Susan and Peter (quarrety hen the teacher comes in, —___(haw all 16 P. Named ee) Date;____— SIMPLE PAST TENSE, Notes: (@) Itis usualy ued with YESTERDAY, LAST NIGHT, AGO, LAST YEAR, THE DAY BEFORE ‘YESTERDAY. (0) Verb after WISH must bein past tense. e.g. IwishI KNEW the truth. Fill in the blanks with Past Tense. The fist sentence has been done for you. 1. They (play) _played 1 game yesterday aftemoon. 2 Peter (get) upat sx o'clock last Sunday morning 3. My sister (uy) ‘anew watch last week. 4. She (begin) tolear Japanese last month. 5. The lorry (run) ‘over the little gist while she was crossing the road. 6. They (have) 4 party lastnight, 7. Uist) + ‘my aunt two months ago. 8. thief oreak) {nto her house when she was out. 9. He wishes te (be) prince. 10. 1 (receive) 1 parcel yesterday. 11, David (start) collecting stamps three months ago, 12, While the choir was singing, we (enter) the elasroom.(NEAL eval TT Name: « ) Dee Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Present Tense or Present Continuous Tense, 1. The sun brightly now. (shine) 2. Birds usually sweetly. (sing) 3. Father to work every day. (drive) 4. Look! The leaves (fall) 5. listen! My sister some beautiful music now. (play) 61 Up at seven o'clock every day. (get) 7. Mary usually very well. (dance) 8. Tony often in a loud voice. (speak) 9. The wind strongly outside now. (blow) 10. The earth rot completely round in shape. (be) 11, Be quick! The school bus (come) 12 She now. (dance) 13, Joan © picture every day. (draw) 14, The dentist___our teeth every year. (examine) 15. They _ baseball at present. (play) 16.1 —— @ letter tomy grandfather at present. (write) 17, My brother fishing every Sunday morning. (go) 18, David is praying while May the book. (read) 19. The waterfall ______ down from the hill. (flow) 20. Look! A litle boy across the harbour. (swim) 21, Mother now, (knit) 22. They their tooth twice a day, (brush) 23, Pot __ the hill at present, (climb) : 24, They while the teacher is writing on the blackboard, (talk)Gaumal Tf Name: Date:__ Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Present Tense or Simple Post Tense. home at Six o'clock. (go) candles. (use) 1. Lalways 2. In olden days people —. 3, He always hard. (ry) 4, Once there an old woman. (live) 5. He seldom Us. (visit) : 6 Yesterday | a letter from him. (ge!) 7. 8. 9. 7. |____ my uncle last week. (visit) . sick. | need some medicine. (feel) . Mary our aunt last Monday. (meet) 10. Tom sometimes. football with me. (play) 11. The woman — ‘a cup of tea ten minutes ago. (drink) 12, A hunter is a man who animals. (catch) 13, The thief ___a ring two days ago. (steal) 14, Cats ____ mice. (chase) 15. Ancient people in caves. (live) 16. The sun ____.__ in the west. (se!) 17. Napoleon the Battle of Waterloo. (lose) 18.1 __ John once in the street. (meet) 19. A rolling stone ____no moss. (gather) 20.1 in that house two years ago, (live) 21, |_______a book from Ann last month. (borrow) 2. _ quiet! The teacher is coming. (keep) 23. Mary _____ her work before she left. (finish) 24. Yesterday Peter and Mary ______ lunch together. (have) ___ with a pair of chopsticks. (eat) with our legs. (run) in public. (sing) 25, Chinese usually 2, We - 27. \ never(Bina ats 14 Name: — Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Present Tense or Simple Past Tense. 1 He fo get a driving licence a yeur ayo. (fall) 2. He always — his work before sun sets. (finish) 3. She often __ shopping on Saturday. (go) 4, Peter to church once a week. (go) ‘5. When the baby cried, mother__him « bottle of milk. (give) 6. Once upon a time, there ____an old man. (live) 7. In olden days the Chinese pigtails. (wear) 8. A thief into Tom's house last night. (break) 9. Milk___ white in colour. (be) 10. __ hard or you will fil. (work) 11, She camera yesterday. (buy) 12. The hen ‘an egg three days ago. (lay) 13, Sometimes we to school by bus. (go) 14, It seldom in winter. (rain) 15, He up early yesterday. (wake) 16. He never__in the examination. (foil) 17. Fother __ home a few minutes ago. (return) 18. She 4 thick coat yesterday. (borrow) 19. We __our clothes every day. (wash) 20. He ___ the work a few days ago. (complete) 21. The dog whenever it sas a stranger. (bark) 22. In the last period, Miss li_____ Betty not to make noise. (tell) 23. We usvally____ in a swimming pool. (swim) 24. To prevent food from turning bad, we__it in a refrigerator. (keep)Cineaa. ntl Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Present Tense or Simple Future Tense. 1. If you work hard, you the test. (pass) 2. The servant up early in the morning. (woke) 3, Oil - __ on water. (float) 4 _ my work next week. (finish) 5, Please _____ me your ticket. (show) 6. Unless you work hard, you —— the tests. (fail) Z cour hands before we eat. (wash) 8 the book in a few days. (complete) 9. Please _____ talking. (stop) here until you come back. (wait) 11. Please ___..__ up the picture for me. (hang) 12. Work hard or you _. (fail) 13, |_______ back tomorrow. (come) 14, My sister usually _10 school by bus. (go) 15, All frogs ___—. (croak) 16. Tomorrow __a holiday. (be) 17, _______ out! There’s a swarm of bees heading this way! (look) 18: The earth ____ round. (be) 19. Fresh air __ good for health. (be) 20. |____ my homework tomorrow. (do) 21. 1 shall pass the examination if | _— hard. (work) DAL it will rain soon. (think) 23. We ___. if we are invited. (go) 24. The naughty boy never his work. (do) 25. Lool The house _on fire. (be) ____ how to do the sum. (not know) __after my brother until my mother corres back. (look)(Bia tel Name: () Date: Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Present Perfect Tense. 1. Susan ust married. (get) 2. Tom already ____ his homework. (finish) 3. 1.am sorry. I think |___ ‘@ mistake. (make) 4. The game already. (start) 5.My dog not back yet. (come) 61 here since 1970. (live) 7, Peler________for Mary for two hours. (wait) 8. My fother for ten years. (not smoke) 9. The train already —. (arrive) 10. After|_____ my teeth, Ihave my breakfast. (brush) Wt the door yet. (not lock) 12 David__ already for permission from his teacher to leave earlier. (ask) 18. Ann ——_____just__________for help and the police will ‘come soon. (call) 14, The teacher —__ 15, John iust 16. The cat______alreocy____ the fish, (ect) 7 you . your clothes yer? (wash) Mt for you for fifteen minutes. (wait) 1 — the words before. (explain) — his shoes. (clean) (eae eee 19, iust___-_ him the secret. (tall 20. Peter_________ for ten years. (work) 21. Ann here since she was born. (live) 2, 23 1 my ring. (lose) Mary for England, (leave) — justFill in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Present Tense or Simple Future Tense. 1. They the macting nex! weak, (attend) 2. The teacher obedient pupils. (like) 3. A factory worker in a factory. (work) 4,|___ her if she is the leader. (obey) 5. Mary_______ to church every Sunday. (go) 6, He ________ 9 tea:party for us tomorrow. (prepare) 7. My parents often with me. (crave) 8 We ____ tomorrow. (arrive) 9. She _____primary school next year. (leave) 10. If you are naughty, | you. (scold) 11, He never a bus. (drive) 12,|___ collecting stamps. (like) 13, They ______ their hair cut soon. (have) 14, They _____ until the bus comes. (wait) 15, If he has money, he 10 USA. (go) 16. A teacher is @ person who _______.. (feach) 17. Mary shopping very much. (like) 18, Leave now or you the bus. (miss) 19. | often fishing with my uncle. (go) 20.1 the book to you later. (give) 21, ___ here until | come back. (wait) He ____ bak in the near future, (come) |____ him in an hour. (see) dangerous to run across the road. (be) him what he wants. (give) REBSDuna 1/3 Activity Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Present Perfect Tense. 1. Peter —__ _ home already. (return) 2. My aunt - in Hong Kong since 1930, (live) 3, you ever __ 0 Japan? (be) 4, Nobody _—— since the headmaster entered the classroom. (speak) Rose ______ English for five years. (study) The wind ______ blowing but the rain is still falling. (stop) ' —— not ___ my work yet. (do) the meaning of the word already. (forget) —— you ever __ him? (se0) 1____ never _—_ him before. (see) 11, Before the police arrive, the thief —_ Mary Seexnoe (escape) 12.1 not___ you for @ long time. (see) 13, Stopl You your watch. (drop) 14, She not__. yet. (arrive) 15.1 just my homework. (finish) 16. He _ here for several years. (live) 17. You feel sleepy because you _________ too much wine. (drink) 18, Peter very hard recently. (work) 19. Mary here since two o'clock. (be) 20. —— you ever _ to Macau before? (be) 21. We for Mary for half an hour. (wait) 22.We__________ our work, so we can go home. (finish) 23, Peter is the best boy!________ (ever, meet) 24.We_________ English for five years. (study) 25. Mary her dinner. (already, have) 26, The dog is ill because _______ too much, (ear) 27. Nobody _____to the sun. (ever, be)Bouse 1 ¥ Name: Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Present Tense or Present Perfect Tense. __ our work, s0 we cargo hore, (do) 2. Mother always —___to the market by bus. (ge 3 for you for half an hour, (wait) 4 __ a hot month. (be) 5. hore since 1960. (live) 6 _ ist his work, (finish) 7 8. 9. «a polar bear before. (see) __ or you will miss the train. (hurry) your work yer? (finish) (return) __..on the bench. There is wel paint on it. (not sit) ____ him before. (meet) _ never - 13. You should not be so sad though you... (fail) 14, Ships ____ on the sea. (sail) 15, We our teeth every morning. (brush) 16. He his teeth overy day. (brush) 17. A horse . fost. (run) with her before. (quarrel) __ to schoo! every day. (walk) ____ good furniture, (make) 18.1 19, Peter _ 20, He is a skilful carpenter and at down what you said. (write) 22. My daughter ____ asleep. (Fol!) 23. Please the book that | have lent you. (return) (mile) __. (work) 24, When Lam happy, 25, do not understand how a car 26, Mary in the choir before. (sing) 27. you ___—_ the toy car yet? (buy)(EeRAL Encl TK P, Name: () Date Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Present Tense or Present Perfect Tense. ue my dinner already. (eat) 2. Mother ——_ our clothes every morning, (wash) at never — him before. (meet) 4t here for ten years. (live) ao: 5. Tom eating very much. (like) They French before. (study) 7. He in the bookshop since last year. (work) 8 My sister dogs. (not like) 9. She already writing. (stort) 10. Before she goes home, she her work. (do) — your hand if you want to ask a 11, Please —__ question. (raise) 12, He his homework well. (do) 13. He ‘a book yet. (not write) 14, We never in winter. (swirn) 15. They off for the journey already. (set) 16. She always Up at six. (woke) 17, Today _____a hot day. (be} 18, We the dishes. (just wash) 19. Please talking. (stop) Do. for six months. (not rain) 2. your hands before you eat. (wash) 22. He his exercise. (just finish) 23 in the street. (not run) 24. ___in your exercise if you have finished it. (hond)Date: (Bia ist 116 Fill in the blanks with verbs in the Past Continuous Tense. 1, While Peter_____his homework, the telephone rang. (do) 2. He fell into the river while he. long the bank. (walk) aie __ my lunch at this time yesterday. (hove) 4, John ___ television while May ____ to the rodio. (waich, listen) 5. Mary ___ when the music suddenly stopped. (dance) 6. Amonkey______up that tree at this time yeserday. (climb) TAs _— my face when the doorbell rang. (wash) 8 We ______ happily at the music contest. (sing) 9. The men __.______ here when I saw them. (work) 10. The lights went off while we our dinner. (have) 1. Mary ___ her book for the whole of yesterday. (read) 12 The ship ______ quickly. (sink) 13, Tom to the teacher. (speak) 14, The man ____ here when | saw him. (stand) football when his mother called him. (play) some books while Mother was cooking, (read) when we saw her. (cry) when it rained. (play) 4 letter when he came. (write) when the thief broke into her nouse. (sleep) ‘at this time yesterday. (teach) 22. While he ______a newspaper, the bell rang. (read) 23, He __— in England at this time last year. (study) 24, When |__ _— along the road, | met John. (walk)Cina oils TT Name: ) Date: Fil in the blanks with verbs in the Simple Past Tense or Past Continuous Tense. 1. When Mary along the road, she met Tom. (walk) 2. Many things had happened since we last __. (meet) 3. Yesterday | «a letter to him. (send) 4, Tom ___ boat last week. (buy) 5. It was @ holiday and we — for a swim. (go) 6. As I left home for school, the sun ___. (chine) 7.Tim me last Sunday. (visit) 8, The man got what he __. (want) 9. My father «a newspaper when the bell rang. (read) 10. They Hands when they met. (shake) Wt him ten minutes ago. (see) 12. While | Mary __. (read , write) 13, When Peter______a bath, the telephone rong. (have) 141 the match yesterday. (win) 15. While you _—, they hard. (play, work) 16.1 home at 10:30 p.m. last evening, (drive) V7 He Iman armchair when his mother returned home. (sit 18, She hurt herself when she (cook) 19. | was reading when you ______ the room. (enter) 20. Joan and | dinner together last night. (have) 21, My sister told us stories as we —___ by the fire. (sit) 21 afraid when | heard the news. (be) 2. Tell me what happened when the thief __into your house yesterday. (break) 24,1 _____ fo rain when we were walking-along the road. (begin) 25. My grandfather ____to sit in that armchair. (use)Name: (aa. ts ‘A’ Fill in the blanks. Use the simple past, past continuous and past perfect tense. ex When the shop manager returned from his holidays, he _ [find] that his shop was in a mess. What a. S _— [happen]? ‘Some burglars 3,_ [break] into his shop. ‘The burglars 4, _ [construct] a tunnel under the shop and 5,__ __ [reach] the warehouse. The safe 6. [be] in the manager's room. [enter] the manager's room [rob] the money but suddenly the door _ [close]. They 10. [leave] their sets of tools outside the room! The manager 11. [discover] them this moming. They 12. (be) tired, > cold and angry. The police say they 13. (be) the most wanted group of burglars in Hong Kong.(Dons! = 7/8 Name: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. . Hong Kong clean. (keep) 1 2. Hurry upl The bus (come) 3. Sam _ to Europe next week. (go) 4, Once upon a time, there _______a greedy man, (be) 5, David up late this morning. (wake) él while Johnny —__.. (read, sing) 7. Jenny her homework already. (Finish) 8, Look! The house _____ on fire. (be) 9. In the past | 0 walk to school. (use) 10.-The telephone rang while Peter __.. (study) nit very soon. (rain) 12, Father ___not___ his work yet. (finish) 18, The sun _.__ now, (shine) 14, |____ at that time yesterday. (read) 15, Aunt Winnie back in a few days. (come) 16. Mv. Chan always ______his lunch at one o'clock. (has) 17. Mrs. Lee birth to a baby last year. (give) 18. Tony for Singapore next month, (leave) 19. Go away! The bridge _____. (fall) 20 Aldog eee (carl) 21. listen! There some sirange noise. (be) 22. Last night the queen _ her crown. (wear) 23. Please wait for me. |____ back ina minute. (come) 24. |____the car already. (repair) 25, Rebecca _" just __ her lunch. (finish) 26. Mr.lee here for a few months. (live) mA my grandmother in the hospital this morning. (visitGouna 7/f _—— ea, oars alah Date:, Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets. When | ___ long the road, | saw an accident. (walk) 1 21 for my shoes now. (look) 3 _ him next week. (visi) 4. She to sing. like) 5 -_ just her dinnet. (finish) 6 10 play with their parenis. (ike) 7. We _—a party for him tonight. (held) 8 ii ny had gone away before the policeman ___ (rive 9. While |______, Tong was reading. (cook) {an interesting book now. (rece) their chickens'now. (feed) at 100°C. (boil) 13, When they , @ fire broke out. (sleep) 14, Babies milk. (drink) 15. He with his friend at this time last night. (talk) 16, Pay attention while }______. (teach) 17. She in the room. (sing) she ____., he was dancing. (write) 19. Do you understand what |__ 2 (sav) 20, When he entered the room, Mary the piano, (ley) 21, Columbus ______ America in 1492. (discover) 22.1 very sad because | had lost my ring. (feel) 23. While |________to the radio, he was doing his work.