The present simple and present continuous tense.. You understand …………the use of the present simple tense now?. The past simple and past continuous.. They do ………..their homework when thei
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I The present simple and present continuous tense.
1 The often (play) ……… football after school
2 During the English lessons we often (speak) ……….english to our teacher and friends
3 My son (do) …… his homework after dinner He (do) …………it now
4 What you (read) ……… when you have some free time?
I (read) ……….short stories or novels I (read) ………….a short story now
5 Nam (do) ……… his morning exercises regularly He (do) ………them in the garden now
6 You (understand) …………the use of the present simple tense now?
Yes, I (do) …….an exercise on it at the moment and I (think) ……….that I (understand) …….it now
7 What you (do) ……….after school? We often (play) ………….football And what about you?
We often (read) ………….books in the school library
8 How your father (go) …………to work? He often (go) ………to work by motorbike
9 She often (return) ………… to her home village when she (have) ………….much spare time
10 Where Nam (be) ………now? He (be) …….in the garden He (water) ……….the flowers
11 Mr Green always (go) ……… to work by bus
12 It (not rain) ……… in the dry season
13 They (have) ………… lunch in the cafeteria now
14 My little sister (drink) ……….milk everyday
15 The doctor sometimes (return) ………home late
16 He (write) ………a long novel at present?
17 Look! The bus (come)………
18 the earth (move) ………around the sun
19 Something (smell) ……… good in the kitchen now
20 They often (thank) ……….me for what I do for them
21 Hurry! The bus (come)………I (not want) ……….to miss it
22 Listen! Somebody (sing) ………
23 How often you (read) ………a newspaper?
24 The sun always (rise) ……… in the east Look!, it (rise) ……… now
25 I (hear) ………….you I know what you (say) ………
26 The concert (start) ………at 7:30 this evening
27 Ann, we (go) ………… to town You (come) ………….with us?
28 She (have) ………… coffee for breakfast every morning
29 I (see) ……….that you (wear) ……… your best clothes
30 She sometimes (buy) ………vegetables at this market
II The past simple and past continuous.
1 His uncle (teach) ………… English in our school five years ago
2 The old man (fall) ………as he (get) ……….into the bus
3 They (not go) ……… to the movies last Sunday
4 When I (see) ………… him, he (sit) ………asleep in a chair
5 You (find) ……….my fountain pen yesterday?
6 Where she (be) ………… at 5 o’clock this morning?
7 It (take) ……… me five minutes to walk to school last year
8 the light (go) ……….out when we (study) ……….our lesson
9 There (be) ……… a lot of noise at the fair yesterday
10 They (give) ……….me the letter a few minutes ago
11 When the football (start) ………? It (start) ……….ten minutes ago
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12 They (start) ……….to learn English when they (be) ……… only ten years old
13 She (play) ……….the piano when we (arrive) ………
14 What you (do) ……… at 8 o’clock yesterday when he (come) …………to see you?
Oh, I (write) ……….a letter to my eldest brother
15 They (do) ……… their homework when their mother (return) ………home
16 She (come) ……… into the room, (open) ………… the window, (turn) ………….on the light, and (begin) ………….to read a newspaper
17 It (rain) ………….hard when they (be) ………….on their way home As they (have) ………… no raincoats with them, they (be) ……… wet through
18 Her father (cook) ……… in the kitchen while her father (clean) ………… the sitting room
19 When I (come) …………to her house, she (work) ………in the garden She (tell) …………me that she usually (do) ………….the gardening when she (have) ………free time
20 She (eake) …………up and (look) …………through the window It (rain) ………… hard
21 They (have) ………….tea when the doorbell (ring) ………
22 Father (smoke) ………his pipe while mother (read) ………….a magazine
23 While he (mow) ……… the lawn, it (start) ……… to rain
24 He (have) ………… breakfast when the toaster (blow) ……… up
25 When I (come) ……….into the office, my boss (wait) ………… for me
26 When we (see) ………….Brian, he (drive) ……….a taxi
27 Father (wait) ………in the car while mother (do) ………….the shopping
28 When he (arrive) ……… , we (have) ……….dinner
29 While they (play) ………chess, we (go) ……….shopping
30 They (have) ……….a party while he (sleep) ………
31 He (take) ……….a photo when I (feed) ……….the ducks
32 They (play) ……… football when the lights in the stadium (go) ……….out
33 While George and John (clean) …………their room, she (do) ………… the ironing
34 Sam (do) ……… the ironing when Jack (phone) ………her up
35 We (wait) ……….at Victoria station when the train (arrive) ………
36 when I (arrive) ……… at his house, he still (sleep) ………
37 She (water) ………….the flowers in her garden while her next door neighbour (chat) …………with her over the fence
38 As we (cross) ………the street, we (see) ………an accident
39 She (hear) ……… a noise and (get) ……out of bed when the door (open) ………
40 The children (play) ………video games when their mother (come) ……….back
41 Who (be) ……….the man that you (talk) …………to? I (see) ……….him at the gate when I (come)
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42 We (wait) …………for the bus when he (pass)……… by in his car and (offer) …………us a lift
43 I (be) ………….very tired because I (work) ……… all day yesterday
44 When the students (hear) ………… the bell, they (get) ………….up and (leave) ………
III Present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous.
1 We often (go) ……… to bed early But yesterday we (go) ……….to bed very late
2 On my way home I often (meet) ………….many children who (go) ………… to school
3 The sun (rise) ………….in the east and (set) ………….in the west
4 When they (finish) ……….their work? They (finish) ……….two hours ago
5 What she still (do) ………when he mother (go) ………… to bed last night?
She still (write) ………….an essay on the Thames
6 What you (do) …………now? We (play) …………computer games
7 He often (buy) ………… present fot his daughter on her birthday Yesterday (be) ………….her 15th
birthday He (buy) ………her a big doll
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8 He (begin) …………to learn foreign languages when he (be) ………quite young
9 People know that Columbus (discover) ……… America nearly 500 years ago
10 They all (say) ……….that he (buy) ………… a new mortobike a few days ago
IV The past simple or the present perfect tense.
1 They just (come) ……….from London
2 “Gone with the wind” is the most interesting film we (see) …………resently
3 You (see) ……… Nam last Sunday? Oh, no I (not see) ………….him for many days now
4 Since when you (learn) …………English? I (learn) ………it since I (be) ………a girl of twelve
5 You (do) ………….your English exercises yet? Yes, we just (finish) ……….them
6 They (do) ……….morning exercises since they (get) ……… up
7 My brother (join) …………the army when he (be) ………… 18 He (serve) ………in the army for 3 years and then (go) ………… to university
8 How long you (live) ……….in this town? I (live) ………… in this town for ten years
9 My sister (finish) ……… school in 2007 and (be) ………….a student at the National University since then
10 How long you (stay) ……….here? Oh, I (stay) ………… for a week
11 Today is Thursday, and she (be) …………late twice this week She (be) ……… late yesterday and on Monday
12 He (live) ………in the same house since 1999
13 He (feel) ………….extremely ill when he went to hospital, but he (feel) ……….much better since he (come) …………out of hospital a month ago
14 John (dig) ………… in the garden all afternoon Why you (not help) ………him?
15 We (not see) ………… him since he (get) ……….married
16 It (rain) ……….for two hours and the ground is too we to play tennis
17 He (move) …………to Ho Chi minh city last year and I (not meet) …… him since then
18 We (not decide) ……….what to do with the money yet
19 My father (work) ……….as a teacher for thirty years
20 She (be) ………promoted three times since she (work) ……… here
21 We (study) ………a very hard lesson yesterday
22 I (read) ………… that novel by Hemingway several times
23 We (study) ………almost every lesson in this book so far
24 My wife and I (travel) ……… to Mexico by air last summer
25 I (have) …………a little trouble with my car last week
26 What (you) ……… do yesterday?
27 How long you (learn) ………English?
28 Tom never (be) ……….in Hanoi
29 The plane (stop) …………at a small town It then (take) ……… off immediatelly
30 She (be) ………….so happy when she (hear) ……….the news that she (cry) ………
V The past simple and past perfect tense
1 What places of interest you (visit) ………… before you (return) ………home?
2 When I (come) ………….to his house yesterday, his mother (tell) ………me that he (go)
………… to the cinema with his friends two hours before
3 He (go) ………….to England after he (study) …………English for two years
4 Before they (go) ………… very far, they (find) ………… that they (lose) …………their way
5 When their father (get) ………….home from work, they (tell) …………him that they already (cook)
………….the dinner
6 He (forget) ………….what I (tell) ………… him I (remind) ………him many times, but he still (not bring) …………what I (want)………
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7 He (ask) …………me whether I (see) ……… his pen on the table I (tell) ………….him that I (not see) ………….it around
8 If I (wait) ………only a little while longer, I would have met her I (not see) ……….her since
we last (meet) ………….two years ago
9 They (go) ……… home after they (finish) ……… their work
10 When we (come) ……… to the stadium, the match (already, begin)
11 They told me they (not eat) ……….such kind of food before
12 After they (go), I (sit) ……….down and (rest)………
13 After taking a bath, he (go) ……….to bed
14 What (be) ………he when he (be) ………….young?
15 It was the first time I ever (see) ……….such a beautiful girl
VI Future simple tense or past tense
1 Miss Snow (type) ……….ten letters before lunch time yesterday
2 The train (start) ………before we arrived at the station
3 There (be) ……… English class in this room tomorrow evening
4 The film already (begin ………when we go to the cinema
5 He (say) ……… that he (see) ……… that man before
6 I (take) ……….my brother to the zoo tomorrow
7 Mr Brown died after he (be) ……….ill for a long time
8 You (stay) ……….at home tonight?
9 By December 1st last year, he (work)……… in the bank for 5 years
10 I (be) ……….twenty years old next June
VII Give the correct form of the verb
1 Mrs Green (take)……… Alice to the dentist many times
2 My sister always (wash) ……….her hands before meals
3 Hurry up! The train (come)……… in
4 I hope it (not rain) ………when we start early tomorrow
5 Hw (sleep) ………so he didn’t understand what you said to him
6 Will you wait a minute while I (look) ……… through the text?
7 You must tell me what you (do) ……….since I last saw you
8 An econamic crisis often (follow)……… the war
9 You (witness)……… many things by the time you die
10 So far you (make) ……….no mistakes on this exercise
11 What you (do)……… at 7 pm yesterday?
12 We didn’t recognize him He (change)……… a lot
13 He discovered to his harrar that he (eat) ………a lot
14 Where you (spend) ………your holiday last year?
15 He (do) ……… nothing before he saw me
16 All of them (sing) ……… when I came
17 She constanly (invite) ……… me to lunch and dinner with her once or twice a year
18 Why didn’t you listen while I (speak)……… to you
19 They had sold all the books when we (get)……… there
20 Where are you? I’m upstairs I (have)……… a bath
21 I usually (go) ……… to school by bus
22 Yesterday morning I (get)……… up at 6.30
23 We (need) ………some money so we (sell)……… our car
24 She ever (be) ……… to Span?
25 What Peter (do) ………now?
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26 Please don’t make so much noise I (study)………
27 Water (boil) ……… at 100 degree celcus
28 Now Ron (phone) ………Jill again It (be) ……… the third time he (phone)…… her this evening
29 It (rain)……… now It (begin)……… raining 2 years ago
So it (rain) ……… for two hours
30 You (hear)……… from Tom?
31 It (rain)……….? She always (ask)……… me
32 New York (be)……… one of the largest cities of the world
33 This house (cost)……… 3500 pounds in 1980
34 You (go) ……… out last night?
35 While Tom (play)……… tennis, Ann (take) ……… a shower
36 It (not see)……… his dog
37 Make (play) ……… chess How long he (play)……… ?
38 “You (speak) ……….English?” she asked
39 When they (work)……… in the garden, the phone (ring)………
40 After they (have)……… their breakfast, they (go)……… shopping yesterday
41 I’m busy at the moment I (redecorate) ……….the sitting room