Tenses exercise

1. ESO-4 English Department
Revision of tenses ESO-3 CPI Tino Grandío
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Choose the right tense: present simple, present continuous, past simple and past continuous.
1. What’s she doing? She’s watching (watch) TV.
2. Although Nirvana _____________________ (be) very popular in the US, they
___________________ (not / become) a reference worldwide until Kurt Cobain died in the
early 1990s.
3. We _______________________ (hear) him say that every day.
4. What _______________________ (you / want) now? I want to see that video.
5. Lewis ______________________ (made) a documentary about life in his region last year but
he _____________________ (not / send) it to any competition.
6. Listen! She __________________ (sing) an old Spanish song. It’s beautiful!
7. I ___________________ (not / read) a really interesting book at the moment.
8. When we ______________________ (arrive) home last night, Peter was playing video
games.
9. How often _______________________ (you /play) tennis? About twice a week.
10. He _________________ (write) a letter to his sister and he _________________ (tell) her
about his new job.
11. Over 5,000 visitors ___________________ (go) to that museum last year.
12. What_____________________ (he / do) now? He __________________ (play) the piano.
13. Last year I _____________________ (not / study) Japanese because I
___________________ (not / have) much spare time.
14. We _____________________ (see) your mother while she was shopping in that new
shopping centre.
15. My mother ________________________ (phone / usually) her sister every Thursday. She
never ____________________ (phone) her on Saturdays.
16. What are you doing? I __________________ (answer) your question.
17. He’s in the kitchen at the moment because he _________________ (cook) dinner.
18. Last night I ____________________ (not / phone) her because you were doing your
homework.
19. Where’s your daughter? I think she ________________________ (try) to repair the hard
disk of her laptop.
20. What time _______________________ (you / arrive) last night? After midnight?
21. Where’s Jane? She ___________________ (talk) to her sister on the phone.
22. Gina, my cousin, ___________________ (live) in London from 2013 to 2017.
23. You can’t say that. I ______________________ (not /tell) your sister you were there.
24. At the moment we _________________ (learn) French before our holiday there.
25. I __________________ (try) to lift this box, but it’s very hard.
26. They ____________________ (come) to school from Monday to Friday but they
________________________ (not / come) at the weekend.
27. Both Shakespeare and Cervantes__________________________ (die) in 1616, over 400
years ago.
28. A tsunami ______________________________ (destroy) many villages in Indonesia in 2004.