Exercise for Present Perfect and Past Simple

I have done/I did (A, B)

Put in the correct verb form.

·         Have done/did

I’ve done all the housework. The house is clean.

·         Have bought/bought

A young couple bought the house. But they didn’t live there long.

1.       Have arrived/arrived

Present Perfect and Past Simple

Present perfect or past simple?

A.      Introduction

Look at this:

Sam               : we’ve bought a new car.

Kay               : we bought it last week.

Now compare:

Sam and Kay have bought a new car. Sam uses the present perfect to tell us about the past and the present. They bought the car, and it’s theirs now.

They bought the car last week. Kay uses  the past simple to tell us about the past, a time which is finished.

Exercise 2 - Past Continuous and Simple

The past continuous (A)

Complete the conversation. Put in a past continuous form of the verb on the right.

Jeremy : I’m afraid I’ve broken this dish. Sue        : Oh no! What (1) ……………………………………………………………..? Jeremy : I (2) ………………………………………………………… it into the dining-room. I bumped into Emma. She (3) ………………………………… out just as I (4) ………………………………. In. Sue        : it was your fault. You (5) ………………………………. You (6) …………………………….. where you (7) ………..……………………….

1.       You do 2.       Take 3.       Come 4.       Go 5.       Dream 6.       Not look 7.       go

Exercise for Past Continuous and Simple

Use the SIMPLE PAST or the PAST PROGRESSIVE in the following.

1.       I am sitting in class right now. I  (sit) . . . was sitting . . . in class at this exact same time yesterday.

2.       I don’t want to go to the zoo today because it is raining.  The same thing happened yesterday. I (want, not) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to go to the zoo because it (rain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3.       I (call)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roger at nine last night, but he (be, not) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at home. He (study) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at the library.

Past Continuous and Simple

Past Continuous or Simple

A.      The past continuous

Look at this question  and answer:

Alice              : I rang yesterday, but you weren’t in. were you playing tennis?

Dave              : No, I was helping Bob. We were working on his car. I wasn’t playing yesterday.

The past continuous is the past tense of be + the ing-form:

I/He/She/It was working                                      you/we/they were working

I/He/She/It wasn’t working                                 you/we/they weren’t working

Was He/She/It working?                                     Were you/we/they working?

We use the past continuous to say that we were in the middle of an action.