Test 1: Present and Past Tenses PDF

ESL D / Summer Virtual / Song Name: ______________________ PART 1. Present Perfect Simple and Progressive Complete the sentences with the correct form of the present perfect tense. (5 points) 1. The post office is not far from here. I _________________ there many times before. (...

ESL D / Summer Virtual / Song Name: ______________________ PART 1. Present Perfect Simple and Progressive Complete the sentences with the correct form of the present perfect tense. (5 points) 1. The post office is not far from here. I _________________ there many times before. (BE) 2. You can go home now. You _______________________ emails for over three hours. You must be very tired. (WRITE) 3. I _______________________ him at least four times but he _______________________ the phone. (CALL, NOT ANSWER) 4. Bobby is so dirty because he _______________________ outside the whole afternoon. (PLAY) 5. The president _______________________ for his speech the whole morning. He still isn't finished. (PREPARE) Part 2. Present Tense Simple and Continuous Complete the sentences using the correct form of the present tense. (5 points) 6. In Britain women normally ____________________ hats. (NOT WEAR) 7. The sun __________________ in the east and __________________ in the west (RISE, SET) 8. Who ____________________ that terrible noise outside? – It’s Dad. He ____________________ the lawn. (MAKE, MOW) 9. I ____________________ this weekend near the coast. I ____________________ there nearly every weekend. (SPEND, GO) 10.She ____________________ thirty cigarettes a day but at the moment she ____________________ to stop. (SMOKE, TRY) Part 3. ​Letter to Janet Fill in the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use past or present perfect tense – simple or progressive. (20 points) Dear Janet, I hope you’re OK. Unfortunately, I’m not. The doctor _____________________ (COME) yesterday. He _______________________ (NOT LIKE) my cough. I ________________________ (LIE) in bed since Tuesday, and I can’t stand it anymore. I _______________________ (NEVER BE) ill like this before - don’t know what’s the matter with me. And the weather’s terrible, too. It ____________________________ (RAIN) the whole week and I can’t even have a cup of tea in the morning to cheer myself up, because the milkman _____________________ (NOT COME) this morning. Don’t know why - I’m pretty sure I _____________________ (PAY) his bill. Alice _____________________ (GET) married last week, so now all Mary’s kids _____________________ (LEAVE) home. She won’t know what to do with herself, will she? Lucy Millmann is moving to Doncaster next month. Since Fred _____________________ (DIE) of a heart attack she _____________________ (BE) all alone. I’m sorry she’s going. We _____________________ (BE) neighbours for over twenty years and she ________________________ (ALWAYS , BE) friendly and helpful to me. Jessica, my cleaning lady, _____________________ (LEAVE) a few days ago. I’m glad. I _____________________ (NOT TRUST) her since she _____________________ (BREAK) all those plates and _____________________ (SAY) it _____________________ (BE) the cat. The village _____________________ (NOT CHANGE) very much. A new family _____________________ (TAKE) over the grocery store recently. They seem quite nice. I hope they are more efficient than the last shopkeeper. So that’s about it. Please write to me when there’s something new. Love, Patricia Part 4. Put each verb into their correct past form. (20 points) Last summer I __________________ (CYCLE) in the rain along a country road in France with my best friend Tom. We __________________ (DECIDE) to go on a cycling holiday in northern France. Neither of us __________________ (BE) to France before, but we __________________ (LEARN) a little bit of French at school and we __________________ (MANAGE) to brush up on the basics. Now we __________________ (WONDER) if we __________________ (MAKE) the right decision. We __________________ (PLAN) our route carefully for months, but we __________________ (FORGET) one important factor: the weather. It __________________ (RAIN) heavily since our arrival and that night we __________________ (END UP) sleeping in the waiting room at a railway station. When we __________________ (RIDE) down a steep hill the next morning my bike __________________ (SKID) on the wet road and I __________________ (FALL) off. I __________________ (REALISE) immediately that I __________________ (BREAK) my left arm and after a visit to the hospital I __________________ (CATCH) the next train to Calais for the ferry home. Unfortunately, my parents _______________________ (NOT EXPECT) me home for a fortnight, and __________________ (GO) away on holiday. So, I __________________ (SPEND) a miserable couple of weeks alone, reading books about cycling in bad weather.