Teacher: Tran Thi Huong
Le Quy Don High School
Optional lesson plans
School year: 2020-2021
Exercises on tense of verbs
Exercises on tense of verbs
Exercise 1: Use the correct from of the verbs in brackets.
1. Last week I (drive) to the office every day.
2. How long (be) it before he reached the station.
3. How many lessons (you have) before you passed your test ?
4. How ( you manage) to stop in time when that car shot out in front of you ?
5. He ran over the cat as it (run) across the road.
drove
had been
had you had
did you manage
was running
Exercise 1: Use the correct from of the verbs in brackets.
6. The front type burst just as he (turn) the corner.
7. The car was stolen because he (forget) to lock it.
8. I waited at the traffic lights for ten minutes before they
(change) green.
9. The breakdown service arrived five minutes after he (phone).
10. The car stopped for the children who (wait) to cross the road.
Exercises on tense of verbs
was turning
had forgotten
changed
had phoned
were waiting
Exercise2: Rewrite the sentences, beginning the given words.
1. I haven`t been to an Indian restaurant for ages.
- It`s ages…………………
2. How long have Helen and Robert been married ?
-When…………….
3. When you phone me, it was my lunch time.
- When……………………….
4. I haven`t had a Chinese meal for ages.
- It`s ages……………………
5. David went home before we arrived.
- When……………………………
6. I`ve only recently started wearing glasses.
- I didn`t………………………
7. The train left and then I arrived the station.
- When I………………..
Exercises on tense of verbs
since I went to an Indian restaurant.
did Helen and Robert get married ?
you phoned me, I was having lunch.
since I had a Chinese meal.
we arrived David had already gone home.
wear glasses until recently.
arrived the station, the train had left
Exercise 3 : Put the verb in brackets into correct tenses :
1. Minh (write)______________ his report last night.
2. After Marry (wash)____________ his clothes, he began to study.
3. Tam (go)_______ to France last year.
4. Ly (call)_______ his employer yesterday.
5. Jane sent a letter to his university after she (receive) ____________ her scholarship check.
Exercises on tense of verbs
had washed
wrote
went
called
had received
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