Worksheet - Tenses

Complete the sentences by using the Present Simple or the Present

Continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

1. I _____ (go) to school every Monday. Leonardo _____ (go) to school

twice a week.
2. My friend _____ (work) in a chocolate factory. She _____ (work) hard
at this very moment.
3. My father _____ (drink) a cup of tea every morning. He _____ (drink)
tea right now. Don`t disturb him!
4. (to be) _____ you home now? I _____ (want) to see you today.
5. My sister ______ (to be) in her room. She ____ (read) a very
interesting book.
6. Everybody ______ (know) she ____ (like) reading. She ____ (like,
not) music.
7. What ____ you ____ (talk) about? I ______ (believe, not) you.

Complete the sentences by using the Past Simple or the Past Continuous
form of the verbs in brackets.
1. I _____ (to be) at school yesterday and I ______(see) all my friends.
2. I _____(listen) music when my brother ______ (come) home .
3. ___ he _____ (read) the same book when you _____ (arrive) there?
4. As the students _____ (try) to understand the situation, one of them
_____ (identify) the problem.
5. Everybody ____ (know) what _____ (happen) in the campus last
summer. ____ you ____ (know, not)?
6. My parents _____ (live) there a long time ago. They ____ (move) to
London last year.
7. While my mother ____ (cook) dinner, I ___ (eat) an apple. My sister
____ (leave) the house. She ____ (go) to the cinema an hour ago.
Complete the sentences by using the Present Perfect Simple or the
Present Perfect Continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
1. Pupils ______ (learn) a lot of English since the end of the year.
2. My mother ________ (watter) the flowers. She has just finished her
work.
3. She _____ (behave) well since I met her. She is still behaving well.
4. Fred ________ (play) football all the afternoon. Tell him to come
home now.
5. _____ she ____ (see) him already? Yes, she ____(meet) him this
afternoon.
6. She _______(live) in the same house since 1989. She still lives there.
7. You _______ (try) to solve this problem for two hours now. Give it
up!

Complete the sentences by using the Past Perfect Simple or the Past
Perfect Continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

1. The pupils _______ (study) Russian before they came to England.

2. Ann _________ (look for) Mark all the morning. She finally saw him
in the library that afternoon.
3. When I got there I saw I ____ (leave) my friends behind.
4. By the time the rain started, we _____(clean) the garden.
5. Mary told us that her brother ___ just ____(go) to school.
6. The man _______(wait) for a long time before they brought his food.
8. Mary ____ (call) me all the morning. She finally got me that
afternoon.