I. Put the verbs in brackets in the present simple or the present continuous tense. 1. I (have) ………………………….coffee for breakfast every day. 2. My brother (work) …………………………. in a shoe store this summer. 3. The student (look) ………………………….up that new word now. 4. She (go) ………………………….to school every day. 5. We (do) ………………………….this exercise at the moment. 6. Miss Helen (read) ………………………….a newspaper now. 7. It (rain) ………………………….very much in the summer. It (rain) ………………………….now. 8. Bad students never (work) ………………………….hard. 9. He generally (sing) ………………………….in English, but today he (sing) ………………………….in Spanish. 10. We seldom (eat) ………………………….before 6.30. 11. He (go) ………………………….to School every day. 12. She (come) ………………………….from Germany. 13. Daisy usually (go) ………………………….to work by car. 14. We (watch) ………………………….TV every night. 15. He (walk) ………………………….to work every day. 16. He (be) ………………………….in Ca Mau. 17. They (be) ………………………….students. 18. She (wash) ………………………….her clothes every Sunday. 19. She (study) ………………………….English every day. 20. He (want) ………………………….to become a teacher. 21. She usually (walk) ………………………….to school. 22. What time …………Mary usually (get) ………………………….up every morning? 23. She (not wash) ………………………….her clothes every weekend. 24. ………………………….they (be) teachers? 25. It (not be) often ………………………….cold in summer.
26. Tom usually (walk) ………………………….to school. 27. He (be) ………………………….a student. 28. I (be) ………………………….sixteen years old. 29. They (be) ………………………….very friendly. 30. He often (wash) ………………………….the car at weekends. 31. What time ……………….you often (get) ……………….up every morning? 32. ………………she (like) ………………………….English? 33. Every week she (go) ………………………….to visit her parents. 34. What time ……………your father usually (get) ………………………….up? 35. We (not go) …………………………. to school on Sundays. 36. We (not be) ………………………….very lazy. 37. The Earth (go) ………………………….around the Sun. 38. I (visit) ………………………….my parents very often. 39. ………………he (go) ………………………….to school every day? 40. ……………… she (come) ………………………….from Japanese? IV. Put the verbs in the past tense 1. My friends (be) …………………………. students last year. 2. The children (play) …………………………. in the park last weekend 3. …………………………. you (go) …………………………. to school last Sunday? 4. My mother (cook) …………………………. a good meal yesterday 5. What…………………………. your mother (do) …………………………. Last week? 6. She (brush) …………………………. her teeth yesterday morning. 7. My mother (buy) …………………………. a new bike two months ago. 8. My father (listen) …………………………. to the radio last night 9. Mr. Nam (not work) …………………………. last Sunday. 10. My mother (arrive) …………………………. home a hour ago 11. Mary (go) ………………………….shopping for me yesterday. 12. The policeman (drive) ………………………….away ten minutes ago. 13. The biscuit factory (close) ………………………….last year.
14. The headmaster (come) ………………………….to the school in 1985. 15. You (spend) ………………………….a lot of money last month. 16. I last (go) ………………………….to Spain in 1990. 17. The boy (finish) ………………………….their homework yesterday. 18. Rolf (buy) ………………………….the leather jacket last week. 19. I (have) ………………………….a little trouble with my car last week. 20. She (wash) ………………………….her clothes last night. 21. They (begin) ………………………….to study at this school 7 years ago. 22. She (lose) ………………………….her handbag on the train yesterday morning. 23. We (visit) ………………………….that city last year. 24. Peter and Daisy (be) ………………………….born in 1978. 25. ………………………….you (spend) ………………………….your holiday in Dalat last summer? 26. She (clean) ………………………….the bicycle yesterday. 27. They (start) ………………………….school in 1998. 28. My friend and I (go) ………………………….to the seaside last week. 29. We (spend) ………………………….hours on the beach last Sunday. 30. He (be) ………………………….in Hanoi last year. 31. His father (die) ………………………….in 1930. 32. Lincoln (work) ………………………….in this factory three years ago. 33. I (do) ………………………….my homework last night. 34. Miss White (write) ………………………….to her father last Monday. 35. My parents (buy) ………………………….the car last year. 36. Hoa (read) ………………………….the book yesterday. 37. He (listen) ………………………….to the radio last night. 38. We (watch) ………………………….a good program on TV last night. 39. Mary (go) ………………………….shopping for me yesterday. 40. I (be) ………………………….in Hanoi last month. 41. My parents (go) ………………………….to HCM city last week. 42. Yesterday we (have) ………………………….a meeting at our school.
43. Mary (meet) ………………………….her parents two week ago. 44. She (be) ………………………….born in 1992. 45. What you (do) ………………………….last night. 46. Last summer I (study) ………………………….English in Can Tho City. 47. She (not visit) ………………………….her son last week. 48. In 1997 there (be) ………………………….a terrible storm. 49. They (build) ………………………….the house twenty years ago. 50. John (do not) ………………………….come to my birthday party last Sunday.