Past Simple and Present Perfect Simple

Set 1

I a great film yesterday. (see)

2. a cheap laptop? (you ever buy)

3. Sue the flu last winter. (have)

4. A few days ago we to his uncle. (drive)

5. They bingo Wednesday afternoon. (play)

6. He the bus to get there. (already take)

7. Last week my rabbit away. (run)

8. We a lot last Sunday. (do)

9. to India? (she ever be)

10. I him last Monday. (meet)

11. She yet. (not wake up)

12. I her since last Thursday. (not meet)

13. Bob well last night. (sleep)

14. I a letter from her two days ago. (get)

15. They in Germany. (already arrive)

Set 2

1. I in Seattle for five years. (live)

2. Someone my bike! Now I'll have to walk home. (steal)

3. When Bob was young he in London. (live)

4. I would like to visit Berlin sometime. Unfortunately, I there. (never be)

5. Tim to Scotland last year. (go)

6. I'm afraid I'm not hungry anymore. I . (already eat)

7. They don't live here any more. They two years ago. (leave)

8. Ann, reading the newspaper yet? (you finish)

9. We football yesterday afternoon. (play)

10. The weather very good last week. (not be)

11. Where are the girls? They yet. (not arrive)

12. Her friend is an actor. He in many movies. (play)

13. We our vacation in Florida last summer. (spend)

14. His grandfather in April last year. (die)

15. I'm ready to go shopping. I my homework. (just finish)

Set 3

1. Sam a new cell phone a few months ago. (buy)

2. I didn't know that he bought a new cell phone. Yes, he it for a few months
now. (have)

3. Last year we to Scotland for our holidays. (go)

4. You look relaxed! Yes, I on vacation. (just been)

5. I can't join you now. I my homework yet. (not do)

6. I all my homework yesterday afternoon. (do)

7. I very well the last nights. (not sleep)

8. Are you tired? Yes, I a hard day. (have)

9. Here is the news. There an accident on the M1 near Nottingham. (be)

10. I my keys. Did you take them with you this morning? (lose)

11. Tom in Sydney all his life. (live)

12. How long out last night? You look tired. (you stay)

13. an accident? No, never. (you ever have)

14. My sister is going to Italy in the summer. That's why she to learn Italian.
(start)

15. I a cold last year. (not have)

Set 4

1. (you call) her yet? Yes, I (phone) her at six, but she (not
answer) so far.

2. First we (have) dinner at our favourite restaurant, and then we (go) to

the cinema.

3. When (they meet) for the first time?

4. This (be) the best movie I (ever see).

5. They (not give) me any money since March.

6. She (write) a letter to her parents some days ago.

7. Carol (just pass) her English exam.

8. My brother (be) ill several times this year.

9. (you already pack) your suitcase?

10. your uncle? (you recently meet) Yes, I (talk) to him last Monday when

I (see) him at the shopping centre.

11. (she do) her homework yet? Yes, she (do) it yesterday.

12. She is bleeding because she (cut) her finger.

13. (they visit) the Taj Mahal when they (stay) in India?

14. He (go) to Brazil, but now he (come) back again.

15. Dan (buy) his car last March and (sell) it yesterday.
 Set 5

1. It very dry this month but it a lot last week. (be / rain)

2. Last July, I to visit my relatives in Barcelona. (go)

3. I think I her once before. (meet)

4. I there last year but I there lately. (be / be)

5. I cannot contact her because she me her email address. (not give)

6. I love this movie. It's the third time I it. (watch)

7. her today's paper article? (you read)

8. We our suitcases yesterday evening. (pack)

9. They home from their summer vacation. (just come)

10. I think he won't be able to work because he his leg last Friday. (break)

11. In 2012, they their house in the country and to a flat in the city.
(sell / move)

12. She as a lawyer since I her eight years ago. (work / meet)

13. They since last Monday. (phone)

14. the late night show yesterday? (you watch)

15. We at the hotel at about eight, and our friends two hours later.
(arrive / meet)

Set 6

PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST TENSE

Fill in the present perfect simple, the past simple or the past progressive/continuous.

1. she ever in a foreign country? (live)

2. While we TV, the lights out. (watch / go)

3. My mother in the living room when someone into our garage. (sit / break)

4. He at the airport. (already arrive)

5. Someone poison into the glass while we in the kitchen. (put / talk)

6. I to the radio when the fire .(listen / break out)

7. you tennis last weekend? (play)

8. I the window because it to rain.(close / start)

9. First she the lawn and then she shopping.(cut / go)

10. He to school for a week. (not be)

 11. She while I in the sun.(surf / lie)

12. In the middle of the night the phone . (ring)

13. I her since her birthday. (not meet)

14. They back yesterday at nine in the evening. (come)

15. I the housework when you at work. (do / be)

Present Perfect Simple For or Since

Fill in with for or since

Set 1

1. I haven't been to Italy July 2005.

2. She has lived in Paris January.

3. Jim has studied three hours. Now he is tired.

4. My friend has been ill a long time.

5. It has been raining more than four days.

6. I haven't seen him Eastern.

7. He hasn't had a holiday last summer.

8. He hasn't done any work a month.

9. We have had this car 1998.

10. We have been here two hours.

11. She hasn't written Christmas.

12. Carol hasn't eaten meat ages.

13. We have been working in his office three years.

14. It has been snowing yesterday morning.

15. I haven't spoken to her our quarrel.

Set 2

1. Nobody has seen him last Friday.

2. It has been foggy some days.
3. He has been fishing six o'clock.
4. They've been living in France eight years.
5. The pilots have been on strike two months.
6. We've had terrible weather Saturday.
7. I've known Tom 1990.
8. We have been waiting for the bus half an hour.
9. She hasn't lost a match April.
10. Things have changed she's become headmaster.
11. The police have been looking for him a month.
12. Our dog has been ill two days.
13. I've been looking for this book a long time.
14. I've been working I got up.
15. The kettle has been boiling ten minutes.