ENGLISH VERB TENSES

PRESENT PAST FUTURE

I play tennis I played tennis I will play tennis
SIMPLE
I do my homework I did my homework I will do my homework

I am playing tennis I was playing tennis I will be playing tennis

CONTINUOUS I am doing my I was doing my I will be doing my

homework homework homework

I have played tennis I had played tennis I will have play tennis

PERFECT SIMPLE I have done my I had done my I will have done my

homework homework homework

I have been playing I had been playing I will have been playing
tennis tennis tennis
PERFECT
CONTINUOUS I have been doing my I had been doing my I will have been doing
homework homework my homework

VERBOS REGULARES
Verb Translate Verb Translate
Open Deliver
Accept Listen
Learn Expert
Dare Wait
Help Miss
Dance Smoke
Change Enjoy
Walk Like
Talk Jump
Arrive Follow
Close Point
Cook End
Rain Finish
Look Work
Snow Try
Need Climb
Stay Use
Consider Dress
Count Intend
Answer Wash
Wish Clean
Start Travel
Push Visit
Belong Live
Ask Turn
Practice Laugh
Want
Remember
Rent
Repeat
Resist

PRESENT SIMPLE

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I play I don’t play Do I play?
You play You don’t play Do You play?
He, She, It plays He, She, It doesn’t play Does He, She, It play?
We play We don’t play Do we play?
Your play Your don’t play Do your play?
They play They don’t play Do they play?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I am playing I am not playing Am I playing?
You are playing You aren’t playing Are you playing?
He, She, It is playing He, She, It isn’t playing Is He, She, It playing?
We are playing We aren’t playing Are We playing?
Your are playing Your aren’t playing Are you playing?
They are playing They aren’t playing Are they playing?

DIFERENCIAS:

PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

(Suj + Verb) (Suj + Verb to BE + Verb –ing)
Permanent Temporary
Habits and routines In progress now
Fact that are always true Events happening at the moment
General situations A particular situation
Frecuency Adverbs
 Always
 Usually
 Often
 Sometimes
 Rarely
 Never

EXERCISES:
 1. Complete the table with the time expressions and adverbs of frequency

Present simple Present continuous

Today, now, often, on Sundays, every year, tomorrow night, this morning,
at this moment, twice a week, usually, right now, rarely

2. Choose “-s” or “-es” or “ies” to change the verbs in the sentences below. Translate B,
F and J
a) Thomas really like to draw pictures in his free time
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
b) My father work in a big office downtown
a. –s
b. –es _________________________________________________________
c. –ies
c) My classmate always pass her English test with a high grade.
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
d) My friend study at a college near his home
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
e) David sometimes play tennis in the afternoon
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
f) Maria always try to help people when they have a problem
a. –s
b. –es _____________________________________________________
c. –ies
g) Troy usually watch football games on TV
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
h) Patrick has an interesting hobby. He fix old cars
 a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
i) My baby brother cry when he doesn’t see his mother
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
j) Sara go to school very early in the morning
a. –s
b. –es ____________________________________________________
c. –ies
k) I bring my lunch from home, bus William buy his luch at work
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies
l) John is a great student. He always do his homework after class
a. –s
b. –es
c. –ies

3. Put the verbs in the correct form of Present Simple. Translate B, F, G, H.

a) Anne (Work) __________________ in a language school.

b) My mother (Be) _______________ a teacher.
c) Raul (Teach) ___________________ English at school.
d) Your granddad (eat) ________________ some apple and orange.
e) The dog (run) __________________ on the park.
f) The students (Have) ________________ exam tomorrow.
g) My friends usually (Go) ___________________ to school by bus
h) I (Be) _____________ doing my homework

4. Complete the sentences in negative of Present Simple. Translate A, D, E.

a) The childrens (Be / not) _____________________ tired.
b) Carol (Have / not) ______________________ any brothers or sister.
c) I (Drink / not ) _________________ milk with biscuits.
d) My brother (Like / not) __________________ maths.
e) I (Be / not) _______________________ from England.

5. Fill the blanks to complete the sentence in Present Simple. Use the words in the box
below.

Read Do Have Sing

Does Watch Travel Drink
Walk Eat Don’t Doesn’t
 a. John __________ breakfast at six o’clock in the morning.
b. I often _________________ books in my free time.
c. ___________ you like to study English? Yes, I do.
d. My father always ______________ songs in the shower.
e. Does Julie work on Saturdays? No, she _____________
f. Would you like to ______________ to Hawaii on our next holidays?
g. I live close to my company, so I can ___________ to work.
h. Mr. Smith always ____________ tea in the afternoon.
i. My classmate _________________ his favorite TV show after class.
j. I’m sorry. I ____________ have time to talk to you now.
k. _______ your cousin have a job? Yes, she does.
l. I don’t ___________ a pen. Could I please borrow your pen?

6. Fill in the blanks below to complete the sentences en Present Continuous. Use the
words in the above boxes.
a. Sam (have lunch) ___________________ at the cafeteria tomorrow.
b. _______ you (travel) _____________ to Dubai next week? Yes, I __________
c. Mrs. Perkins (give) ____________________ her students a test in a few days.
d. Hurry! The train (leave) _____________________ in ten minutes.
e. I (get up) __________________ very early tomorrow morning, at five o’clock.
f. ___________ John (come) _____________ to the party? No, he _________
g. I (go) ______________________ to a shopping small this weekend.
h. No, we (go out) ___________________ on Friday. We are staying home.
i. Tomorrow is Saturday! I (sleep) _______________________ late!
j. I (play) _______________________ football tomorrow afternoon at 2.30.
k. Sally, turn off the TV! We (eat) __________________________ dinner soon.
l. No, we (have) ________________________ a meeting today. It’s at three
o’clock tomorrow.

7. Fill in the blanks below to complete the sentence in Present Continuous. Use the
words in the above boxes.

a. We / watch / TV ____________________________________________
b. Your classmate / study _____________________________? Yes, he _____
c. Steven / make / dinner __________________________________
d. Why / you / laugh ______________________________________?
e. I / read / a funny book ______________________________________
f. The children / play / a game _________________________________
g. It /not rain __________________________________ now.
h. They / eat / lunch _________________________________? No, they _______
i. Birds /sing _______________________________
j. I / do / my homework _______________________________________
k. He / not sleep _____________________________________________
l. My friend and I / talk / to the teacher _______________________________
m. Alice / swim / at the beach ______________________________?
8. Choose Present Simple or Present Continuous and complete the sentences with the
correct verb form.

a) I (not speak) __________ English. I (speak) _______________ Spanish.

b) My friend Alex (study) _______________ Math. He (like) _______________ numbers.
c) You usually (not eat) _________________ fish, but in this moment you (eat)
___________________ chicken.
d) My mother (wath) _______________ a movie. She (love) _______________ cinema.
e) My sister and I (play) _________________ tennis. We (have) ______________ rackets.
f) Alice (go) ___________ to the church every Sunday.

9. Complete the sentences with Present Simple or Present Continuous.

a. What is that noise? Peter _____________________ the guitar.
b. We ____________________(go) to the cinema this Friday.
c. Maria ______________________(Study) at home every day.
d. The days _______________________ (Be) longer in summer.
e. She often ______________________(talk) to herself.
f. She _______________________ (have) a shower at the moment
g. Right now, she ____________________(run) down the hill.
h. These plants ______________________ (grow) very slowly.
i. My cat ____________________ (not drink) milk.
j. My sister _________________ (not want) any animals at home.
k. Most people ______________________ (not like) to visit a dentist.
l. In his job he usually ___________________ (eat)
m. Look at his woman, she _____________________ (wear) a nice T-shirt.
n. I never ________________ (go) out in the evening.
o. Where is Juan? He _________________ (work) in the office.
10. Complete this questions to score your knowledge of Present Simple and Present
Continuous grammar.
a) I’m hungry and Brian is hungry. ____ you hungry?
a. Is
b. Are
c. Do
b) His sister likes to _____ at a beach near our home.
a. Swims
b. Swim
c. Swimming
c) Thomas and Ashley ______ outside in the yard now.
a. Are playing
b. Is playing
c. plays
d) My friend and I ______ at the National History Museum.
a. Are
b. Am
 c. Is
e) What ____ you like to do in your free time?
a. Does
b. Are
c. Do
f) They _________ very much time to finish their work.
a. Don’t have
b. Doesn’t have
c. Don’t has
g) They ______ eating their dinner right now because their food is too hot.
a. Not
b. Don’t
c. Arent
h) My sister ___________ to the new shopping mall this afternoon.
a. Wants to go
b. Want to goes
c. Want to go
i) This is Carlos. ______ my friend and my classmate.
a. His
b. He
c. He’s
j) _____ they students? Yes, they _____.
a. Do / do
b. Are / are
c. Is / do
k) It is very noisy upstairs! What ______?
a. Are they doing
b. Do they doing
c. Do they do
l) I can’t talk to you right now because I _____
a. Am study
b. Are studing
c. Study
m) He usually goes for a walk at this time, but he ______ for a walk now.
a. Doesn’t’ go
b. Not go
c. Isn’t going
n) My brother _____ a doctor. He ______ at a hospital.
a. Is / working
b. Is / works
c. Does / is work
o) Are they working in this moment? No, they _____
a. Aren’t
b. Don’t
c. Isn’t
p) Do you _____ travel anywhere on your summer holidays?
a. Likes
b. Like
c. Like to
q) ______ right now? Yes, he is
a. He sleeps
b. Is he sleeping
c. He sleeping
r) Maria ______ to school every morning by bus.
a. Goes
b. Is go
c. Going
s) I ______ dinner because e ordered pizza a few minutes ago.
a. Am not making
b. Don’t make
c. Not make
t) _____ you okay? ______ you want to see a doctor?
a. Are / do
b. Do / are
c. Do / do
u) Selma and Catherine ______ very good students. They study very hard.
a. Am
b. Is
c. Are
v) Do you have a job? No, I ________
a. Not
b. Don’t
c. Am not
w) Who ________ in the car?
a. Does
b. Are
c. Is

11. Chosee the correct answer.

a) What are you cooking? It smells / is smelling wonderful

b) What time do you usually go / are you usually going to the bed?
c) Be quiet! The baby sleeps / is sleeping.
d) In most spanish school, the student don’t wear / arent wearing uniforms.
e) Turn off the TV. The children don’t watch / aren’t watching it.
f) You don’t need an umbrella this morning. It doesn’t rain / isnt’t raining.
g) He is vegetarian. He doesn’t eat / isnt eating meat.
h) Right now, the president meets / is meeting some important people.

12. Complete the text.

1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

9. 10. 11.

13. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Simple or
Present Continuous.
a) My mother _______________ (washes) her car every weekend.
b) I _________________ (do) an English grammar exercise at this moment.
c) The British sometimes __________________ (eat) fish and chips for dinner
d) My friends and I ____________________ (go) shopping tomorrow.
e) On Saturdays, I ___________________ (not get up) untill 12.00h.
f) Our teacher is ill. She _______________________ (not work) today.

14. Choose the correct answer.

a. I have / am having a great time on this holiday.
b. She is Italian. She come / is coming from Pisa.
c. Are you enjoying / do you enjoy your meal? Yes, it is very good.
d. This semester, I study / am studying Latin
e. Do you come / are you coming to see us next month?
f. It worries / is worrying me a lot at the moment
g. I get / am getting up at seven o’clock on weekdays

15. Correct the grammar mistake below. The firs one is done for you. There are 12 more.
 1. My family and 2. 3. 4.
I are relaxing
5. 6. 7. 8.

9. 16. 17. 18.

19. Write the questions for the answers below. Pay attention to the words in bold.
a) _______________________________________________________?

Yes, he loves chocolate.

b) Where __________________________________________________?

They live in Paris.

c) What____________________________________________________?

The children are playing tennis.

d) Why _____________________________________________________?

I’m wearing a coat because it is cold outside.

e) What time_________________________________________________?

She finished school at 3.30.

REPASO VERBS
 1. Choose the correct answer.
a) Mike ______ the newspaper now
a. Is reading
b. Read
c. Reads
b) The company manager _____ late every evening.
a. Is working
b. Work
c. Works
c) What _____ at the moment?
a. Do you do
b. You are doing
c. Are you doing
d) My friends _________ early in the holidays.
a. Aren’t getting up
b. Don’t get up
c. Doesn’t get up
e) This cheese ______ fresh.
a. Doesn’t smell
b. Isn’t smelling
c. Don’t smell
f) Shh! I ____ to the news.
a. Listen
b. Am listening
c. Listens
g) I never _____ boots in the spring
a. Wear
b. Am wearing
c. Don’t wear
h) I ____ what you are talking about.
a. Am not understanding
b. Don’t understand
c. Doesn’t understand

2. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Simple or
Present Continuous.
a. _______ you _______________ (think) it will rain today?
b. It’s beautiful day so we _______________________ (walk) to work.
c. Jake is very honest. He never __________________ (Tell) lies.
d. My best friend _____________________ (not live) in my neighbourhood.
e. I can’t help you now. I ___________________ (study) for a test.
f. Jane ______________________ (not belive) Joe really loves her.

PAST SIMPLE

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

 I played I didn’t play Did I play?
You played You didn’t play Did You play?
He, She, It played He, She, It didn’t play Did He, She, It play?
We played We didn’t play Did we play?
Your played Your didn’t play Did your play?
They played They didn’t play Did they play?
PARA El PASADO SIMPLE UTILIZAMOS LA 2º COLUMNA DE LOS VERBOS IRREGULARES

*Cuando se utiliza la forma negativa o interrogativa en el pasado, el verbo de después se

conjuga en presente. Ej: I didn’t play

PAST CONTINUOUS

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I was playing I wasn’t playing Was I playing?
You were playing You weren’t playing Were you playing?
He, She, It was playing He, She, It wasn’t playing Was He, She, It playing?
We were playing We weren’t playing Were We playing?
Your were playing Your weren’t playing Were you playing?
They were playing They weren’t playing Were they playing?
PARA El PASADO SIMPLE UTILIZAMOS LA 2º COLUMNA DE LOS VERBOS IRREGULARES

DIFERENCIAS:

PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS

Describe actions and states in a completed Describe ac action in progress (continuing) in
period of time the past
(Ej: I enjoyed the film we saw yesterday) (Ej: while I was waiting the bus, I met Karen)
Describe habitual actions in the past Can describe several situations in progress at
(Ej: every day I got up early and went to the the same time
beach) (Ej: While James was cooking, John was
watching TV).
Time expressions: Time expressions:
 Ago  While
 For (two years) / once / since  When
 Last week
 On Sunday / September

1. Fill in the blanks below to complete the sentences in Past Simple.

a. I _____________ (wait) ten minutes for the bus.
b. He usually walks to work, but he __________________ (not / walk) to work
yesterday
c. I was really _____________ (surprise) when my friend ___________ (cook)
dinner
d. _______ you ___________ (order) your food? Yes, we ____________.
e. My friends ________________ (come) to Spain last month.
f. What time _______ you ___________ (arrive) at school this morning?
 g. Carla ___________ (eat) meet on Wednesday
h. Lorena _____________ (fell) asleep. She _______________ (not / go) to work.
i. What _____________ you _____________ (do) Last Saturday?
j. When I was a baby, I _____________ (cry) a lot.

2. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in bracket (using Past Simple).
Answer the question.

Yesterday ______________ (be) John and Dorothy’s

twenty-third wedding anniversary. They
___________________ (go) to the Continental
Restaurant for dinner. The restaurant is a very special
place for John and Dorothy because they
____________ (get) there on their first date, twenty
four years ago.
John and Dorothy ______________ (sit) at a quiet,
romantic table in the corner. They _________ (have)
two glasses of wine, and then they ______________ (order) dinner.
First Dorothy _______________ (want) a bowl of vegetable soup and John
__________ (prefer) a glass of tomato juice.
For the main course, Dorothy _______________ (request) baked chicken with rice, and
John ____________ (order) fish with potatoes.
For desert, Dorothy _______________ (demand) a piece of apple pie, and John
_________ (want) a bowl of strawberries.
John and Dorothy _____________ (enjoy) their dinner very much. The food
__________ (be) excellent and they __________ (have) a wonderful evening at the
Continental Restaurant. It __________ (be) a very special anniversary.

a. What was yesterday?

b. Where did John and Dorothy go?

c. What did they choose the Continental Restaurant?

d. Where did they sit at the restaurant?

e. What didi they have before dinner?

f. What did John order for dinner?

 g. What did Dorothy order for dinner?

h. How was the food?

i. How many glasses of wine did they drink?

3. Describe what did Marie have for breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner yesterday. Did
you like the food?

Marie ate breakfast at eight o’clock. She had toast with butter and…

4. Find and correct the mistake below in Past Simple or Past Continuous.
 a. They eat dinner at six o’clock yesterday.
b. Did Maria drove to work this morning?
c. I not finished my homework last night.
d. Was she buy a new car yesterday?
e. I go to Montreal two years ago
f. Who did you talked to?
g. Where was you stay in Washington?
h. I was read that book last year
i. I not see the movie last weekend?
j. What do you did last night?
k. Did you in class yesterday?

5. Choose the best answer in Past Simple or Past Continuous.

a) My family and I ____ in London when I was young.
a. Lived
b. Live
c. Was live
b) We ______ some sandwiches and fresh fruit to eat for lunch yesterday.
a. Buy
b. Buys
c. Bought
c) ______ you have a good time?
a. Did
b. Were
c. Was
d) He didn’t ______ me because I was behind the tree.
a. Saw
b. See
c. Sees
e) When did they _____ back to their country?
a. Flew
b. Flies
c. Fly
f) They ______ back to their country last week
a. Fly
b. Flies
c. Flew
g) Did you _______ lots of interesting photos on your holiday?
a. Took
b. Take
c. Takes
h) We had a grat time and we ________ lots of fun and exciting things
a. Did
b. Do
c. Was did
i) She didn’t answer the phone because she ____ at home
a. Didn’t
b. Weren’t
c. Wasn’t

6. Translate
a) Cuando Jack llegó, nosotros estábamos viendo la televisión
b) ¿Llovía cuando saliste fuera?
c) Estaba nevando cuando yo fui a la cama
d) El teléfono sonó a las 7, pero yo me estaba duchando (ducharse = have a shower)
e) Cuando abrimos la ventana, vimos que estaba lloviendo
f) Susana se durmió mientras Rafa tocaba el piano (dormirse = fall asleep)
g) Yo estaba leyendo un libro cuando Miguel se fue.

a. .
b. .
c. .
d. .
e. .
f. .
g. .