Past simple

1. wrote 2 books last year.

2. My sister angered with me because I forgot to do my homework
3. My sister lost her dictionary because she left it on the train
4. When I was seven, my parents gave me a bicycle, I rode it everywhere
5. The storm happened end of January, it destroyed a few houses.
6. The number of primary school students increased in 2003 and then it declined the next year
7. The town council built a bridge across the river, it connected the town to the island.
8. Last year many people stopped the smoke when the price of cigarettes went up.

Present perfect and present perfect continuous

1. Local library has become more comfortable since they installed the air conditioner.
2. This is a device helps everyone find the key that they have just lost.
3. Since I started to use email I have been writing a traditional letter.
4. I have been living in this house since I was born.
5. In several recent years, new technologies have brought many benefits.
6. In several recent years, money has become more important as a way to satisfy people’s needs.
7. We have finished works, but they still haven’t paid the money for me
8. They have done several experiments and they think they have found the solution for this
problem.