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4 – Worksheet 3

Task 1: Fill in the blanks by following the instructions given in brackets.

1. I ................................ cricket after a long time yesterday. (past tense of play)
2. Shaheen ................................ all her homework already. (present perfect of finish)
3. By the time you reach the station, the train ................................ (future perfect of leave)
4. I ............................... back home when it began to rain. (past continuous of walk)
5. Saman ................................ the lead role in the play to be staged next Friday. (future
continuous of play)
6. I ................................ a lot of trouble with my car lately. (present perfect continuous of
have)
7. The doctor told her that she ................................ wrong medicines for about a year. (past
perfect continuous of take)
8. It ................................ to rain early in the morning and it went on till evening. (past perfect
of start)
9. There ................................ no need to tell her about this. (simple present of be)
10. He ................................ many plays but never published them. (simple past of write)
Task 2: Fill in the blanks with suitable tenses of the words given in brackets.
It ................................ (be) a cold morning in the month of December. It ..............................(snow)
continuously for the last two days. All the roads were blocked. But that morning, finally the snow
................................ (stop) falling and we could see a bit of sunshine. We kids, who ................................
(sit) inside the house for three days, were already getting restless. All we ............................... (want) to
do was to go outside and play in the thick lovely snow. But Mother had already given us a strict warning
against ............................. (step) outside the house. She said that if we went out, we ................................
(catch) a cold or get chilblains on our feet. So we had to content ourselves with ...............................
(look) out of the window and thinking about all the games we could play. We could see the kids of the
neighbourhood making a huge snowman and felt jealous of them. Then, all of a sudden the delicious
smell of freshly baked cookies ................................ (waft) into the room and, ................................
(forget) all about the snow and the snowman, we ran towards the kitchen.
Task 3: Fill the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in brackets.
1. This issue ................................ (arise/arose/arisen) because you did not listen to us.
2. He ................................ (drives/drove/driven) really fast on these roads because there is no traffic.
3. Has he (give/gave/given) back the money he was supposed to................................
(give/gave/given)?
4. Please find out if he ................................ (do/did/done) the work we asked him to
(do/done/did).
5. The graffiti artist ................................ (draw/drew/drawn) sketches all over the wall.
6. The fortune-teller said it was ................................ (foresee/foresaw/foreseen) that in the future she
would be very successful.
7. Whoever ................................ (break/broke/broken) the glass should replace it.
8. Have you ................................ (forget/forgot/forgotten) about the pact we made last year?
9. She ................................ (blow/blew/blown) out the candles in one ................................
(go/went/gone).
10. The seams in this sweater have been ................................ (interweave/interwove/interwoven) so
well.