PRACTICE ON SIMPLE PAST, PAST CONTINUOUS,

PRESENT PERFECT
I. Use past continuous.
1. At this time yesterday, I (prepare) …………………………for my son's birthday party.
2. I (drive)…………………………… my car very fast when you called me.
3. I (chat) ………………………… with my friends while my teacher (teach)
………………………… the lesson yesterday.
4. My father (watch) …………………………TV when I got home.
5. What you (do) ………………………… at 8 pm yesterday?
6. They (not go) ………………………… to school when I met them yesterday.
7. My sister (read) …………………………books while my brother (play)
………………………… football yesterday afternoon.
II. Use past continuous or past simple.
1. I ……………….……….TV at home from 7 to 9 last night. (watch)
2. When the phone ……………………., we ………………………dinner. (ring/ have)
3. What ……………….you ……………………at this time yesterday? (do)
- I ………………………..(sleep)
4. ………………………your mother ………………….between 11 and 11.30 yesterday?
(cook)
– No. She ………………………………the dishes. (wash)
5. While Lan …………………………. her homework, her brother
…………………………chess with his friend. (do/play)
6. While the man …………………………….to the beach, he ……………... an accident.
(ride/ see)
7. Where ……………………they …………………a week ago? (camp)
- They ……………………..up their tents in the park. (put)
8. At this time last Sunday, we ………………………games on the beach. We
…………………………. trash there. (not play/ collect)
III. Choose the best answer.
1. Alice (saw/ was seeing) the accident when she was catching the bus.
2. What (were you doing/ did you do) when I called?
3. I wish we often (visit/ visited) my friends.
4. She wishes it (isn’t raining/ wasn’t raining) now.
5. While people were talking to each other, he (read/ was reading) his book.
6. My sister (was eating/ ate) hamburgers every weekend last month.
7. While we (were running/ ran) in the park, Mary fell over.
8. (Did you find/ Were you finding) your keys yesterday?
9. Who (was she dancing/ did she dance) with at the party last night?
10. They (were watching/ watched) football on TV at 7 p.m. yesterday.
IV. Choose the best answer among A, B, C, or D.
1. When I last saw him, he _____ in London.
A. has lived B. is living C. was living D. has been living
2. We _______ Dorothy last Saturday.
A. don’t see B. haven’t seen C. didn’t see D. hadn’t seen
3. The train ______ half an hour ago.
A. has been leaving B. left C. has left D. had left
4. Look! Jack ______ the door.
A. has just painted B. paint C. will have painted D. is painting
5. My sister ________ for you all the yesterday morning.
A. is looking B. was looking C. has been looking D. looked
6. My sister wishes she ________ to the party tonight.
A. can go B. will go C. could go D. am going
7. I ______ Texas State University now.
A. am attending B. attend C. was attending D. attended
8. Christopher Columbus _______ American more than 500 years ago.
A. discovered B. has discovered C. had discovered D. was discovering
9. We wish we ________ do too much homework now.
A. don’t have to B. didn’t have to C. have to D. had to
10. He fell down when he ______ towards the church.
A. run B. runs C. was running D. had run
V. Use present perfect.
1. There is no more cheese. I (eat)……………. it all, I’m afraid.
2. The bill isn’t right. They (make)………….. a mistake.
3. It’ll soon get warm in here. I (turn)……….. the heating on.
4. ………they (pay)…….. money for your mother?
5. Wait for few minutes, please! I (finish)……………. my dinner.
6. ………you ever (eat)………….. Sushi?
7. He (be)…………. at his computer for seven hours.
8. She (not/have) ……………any fun a long time.
9. ……….she (eat)………………. at the Royal Hotel yet?
10. I (buy)…………. a new carpet. Come and look at it.
11. She (write)………….. three poems about her fatherland.
12. We (finish) ……………………three English courses.
VI. Put the verbs in bracket into the past simple or the present perfect
1. I ______ (not/play) tennis since I was at school but I _____ (be) very good at it back then.
2. A: ______ you ________ (choose) a dress for the party yet?
B: Yes, I ______ (buy) one yesterday.
3. I think our teacher ______ (forget) about the test! He ___________ (not/ say) anything
about it in the last season!
4. A: ____________ (you/ sell) your house yet?
B: Yes, some people _______ (see) it last month and ________ (buy) it.
5. They __________ (lose) their cat. It ___________ (run) away last week.
6. __________ Helen ever __________ (try) sushi?
7. __________ you __________ (go) to the wedding last night?
8. I __________ never __________ (be) to Paris
9. This year I __________ (travel) to Athens 3 times so far.
10. Paul and Judith __________ (be) married since 1998.
11. __________ you __________ (finish) your homework yet?
12. Last night aunt Betty __________ (come) by. She __________ (tell) us that this
summer they are going to Hawaii.
13. I __________ (visit) many different countries so far. Last summer I __________ (go) to
Italy and 3 years ago I __________ (be) in Spain. I __________ (not/ visit) Germany yet.
14. When __________ you __________ (come) to Greece? - I __________ (come) in 2007.
15. __________ you __________ (watch) the film E.T. yesterday?
16. They __________ already __________ (leave) the train station
17. How long __________ you __________ (know) Jonathan?
18. I __________ (meet) him in 2009, so I __________ (know) him for 3 years
19. What __________ (happen) to Lucy last night?
20. __________ you __________ (read) “Harry Potter” when you were on holidays?
VII. Complete the second sentence using the word in brackets so that it has the same
meaning as the first one.
1. He last wrote to her in February. (NOT)
He _______________________________________________________________
2. I left Japan ten years ago. (SINCE)
It ________________________________________________________________
3. Tom has been drinking milk since he was thirteen. (WHEN)
Tom ______________________________________________________________
4. My father started washing his car in the morning. (SINCE)
My father __________________________________________________________
5. Tom has run this restaurant for three years. (SET)
Tom ______________________________________________________________
6. Tom has been collecting stamps since he was a kid. (WHEN)
Tom ______________________________________________________________
7. He began playing basketball one year ago
He has_____________________________________________________________
8. The children started riding bicycles when they were 5 years old.
They have _________________________________________________________
9. This is the first time I have eaten out at a 5-star restaurant.
I haven’t __________________________________________________________
10. I last met my best friend when she went to study abroad.
I have _____________________________________________________________
11. It is two years since we last went on a picnic together.
We haven’t _________________________________________________________