Verb tenses
REVIEW TENSES
I. The present simple and present continuous tense.
1. The often (play) ……………..football after school.
2. During the English lessons we often (speak) ……….english to our teacher and friends.
3. My son (do) ……. his homework after dinner. He (do) …………it now.
4. What you (read) ………………....when you have some free time?
I (read) …………….short stories or novels. I (read) ………….a short story now.
5. Nam (do) ………..his morning exercises regularly. He (do) ……………them in the garden now.
6. You (understand) …………the use of the present simple tense now?
Yes, I (do) …….an exercise on it at the moment and I (think) ……….that I (understand) …….it now.
7. What you (do) ……….after school? We often (play) ………….football. And what about you?
We often (read) ………….books in the school library.
8. How your father (go) …………to work? He often (go) ………to work by motorbike.
9. She often (return) …………..to her home village when she (have) ………….much spare time.
10. Where Nam (be) ………now? He (be) …….in the garden. He (water) …………….the flowers.
11. Mr. Green always (go) …………………..to work by bus.
12. It (not rain) ………………..in the dry season.
13. They (have) …………..lunch in the cafeteria now.
14. My little sister (drink) ……….milk everyday.
15. The doctor sometimes (return) …………………home late.
16. He (write) ……………a long novel at present?
17. Look! The bus (come)………………
18. the earth (move) ………………around the sun.
19. Something (smell) ………………..good in the kitchen now.
20. They often (thank) …………….me for what I do for them.
21. Hurry! The bus (come)………………I (not want) ………………….to miss it.
22. Listen! Somebody (sing) ………………………
23. How often you (read) ………………a newspaper?
24. The sun always (rise) ……………..in the east. Look!, it (rise) ………………..now.
25. I (hear) ………….you. I know what you (say) ……………

19. When I (come) …………to her house, she (work) ……………in the garden. She (tell) …………me
that she usually (do) ………….the gardening when she (have) ……………free time.
20. She (eake) …………up and (look) …………through the window. It (rain) …………..hard.
21. They (have) ………….tea when the doorbell (ring) ………………..
22. Father (smoke) ……………his pipe while mother (read) ………….a magazine.
23. While he (mow) ……………..the lawn, it (start) ………………..to rain.
24. He (have) …………..breakfast when the toaster (blow) ……………..up.
25. When I (come) ……….into the office, my boss (wait) …………..for me.
26. When we (see) ………….Brian, he (drive) …………….a taxi.
27. Father (wait) ……………in the car while mother (do) ………….the shopping.
28. When he (arrive) …………….., we (have) ……………….dinner.
29. While they (play) ………………chess, we (go) ………………….shopping
30. They (have) ………………….a party while he (sleep) ………………….
31. He (take) ……………….a photo when I (feed) …………….the ducks.
32. They (play) ……………..football when the lights in the stadium (go) …………….out.
33. While George and John (clean) …………their room, she (do) …………..the ironing.
34. Sam (do) ………..the ironing when Jack (phone) ……………her up.
35. We (wait) ……….at Victoria station when the train (arrive) ………………..
36. when I (arrive) ……………..at his house, he still (sleep) ……………
37. She (water) ………….the flowers in her garden while her next door neighbour (chat) …………with
her over the fence.
38. As we (cross) ……………the street, we (see) ………………an accident.
39. She (hear) ………..a noise and (get) ……out of bed when the door (open) …………….
40. The children (play) ……………video games when their mother (come) ……………….back.
41. Who (be) ……….the man that you (talk) …………to? I (see) ……….him at the gate when I (come)
…………in
42. We (wait) …………for the bus when he (pass)……….. by in his car and (offer) …………us a lift.
43. I (be) ………….very tired because I (work) ……………..all day yesterday.
44. When the students (hear) …………..the bell, they (get) ………….up and (leave) ………………..
III. Present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous.

11. Today is Thursday, and she (be) …………late twice this week. She (be) ………..late yesterday and on
Monday.
12. He (live) ………………in the same house since 1999.
13. He (feel) ………….extremely ill when he went to hospital, but he (feel) ……….much better since he
(come) …………out of hospital a month ago.
14. John (dig) …………..in the garden all afternoon. Why you (not help) ………………him?
15. We (not see) …………..him since he (get) …………….married.
16. It (rain) ……….for two hours and the ground is too we to play tennis.
17. He (move) …………to Ho Chi minh city last year and I (not meet) ……..him since then.
18. We (not decide) …………….what to do with the money yet.
19. My father (work) ……………….as a teacher for thirty years .
20. She (be) ……………promoted three times since she (work) ……………..here.
21. We (study) ………………a very hard lesson yesterday.
22. I (read) …………..that novel by Hemingway several times.
23. We (study) ……………almost every lesson in this book so far.
24. My wife and I (travel) ……………..to Mexico by air last summer.
25. I (have) …………a little trouble with my car last week.
26. What (you) ……………..do yesterday?
27. How long you (learn) ………………English?
28. Tom never (be) ……………….in Hanoi.
29. The plane (stop) …………at a small town. It then (take) ………..off immediatelly.
30. She (be) ………….so happy when she (hear) …………….the news that she (cry) ……………..
V. The past simple and past perfect tense
1. What places of interest you (visit) …………..before you (return) …………………home?
2. When I (come) ………….to his house yesterday, his mother (tell) ……………me that he (go)
………… to the cinema with his friends two hours before.
3. He (go) ………….to England after he (study) …………English for two years.
4. Before they (go) …………..very far, they (find) …………..that they (lose) …………their way.
5. When their father (get) ………….home from work, they (tell) …………him that they already (cook)
………….the dinner.

1. Mrs. Green (take)………………. Alice to the dentist many times.
2. My sister always (wash) ……………….her hands before meals.
3. Hurry up! The train (come)…………………… in.
4. I hope it (not rain) ………………when we start early tomorrow.
5. Hw (sleep) ………………so he didn’t understand what you said to him.
6. Will you wait a minute while I (look) ………………..through the text?
7. You must tell me what you (do) ……………….since I last saw you.
8. An econamic crisis often (follow)…………………. the war.
9. You (witness)………………….. many things by the time you die.
10. So far you (make) ………………….no mistakes on this exercise.
11. What you (do)……………….. at 7 pm yesterday?
12. We didn’t recognize him. He (change)………………… a lot.
13. He discovered to his harrar that he (eat) …………………a lot.
14. Where you (spend) ………………your holiday last year?
15. He (do) ………………..nothing before he saw me.
16. All of them (sing) …………………..when I came.
17. She constanly (invite) …………………..me to lunch and dinner with her once or twice a year.
18. Why didn’t you listen while I (speak)…………………… to you.
19. They had sold all the books when we (get)…………………. there.
20. Where are you? I’m upstairs. I (have)……………………. a bath.
21. I usually (go) ……………..to school by bus.
22. Yesterday morning I (get)…………………. up at 6.30.
23. We (need) …………………some money so we (sell)……………… our car.
24. She ever (be) ………………..to Span?
25. What Peter (do) …………………now?
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Verb tenses
26. Please don’t make so much noise. I (study)………………………….
27. Water (boil) …………………..at 100 degree celcus.