The document provides a grammar exercise where students must choose the correct verb tense - present simple, present continuous, past simple or past continuous - to complete 27 sentences. The tenses test a variety of situations including actions occurring now, regularly occurring actions, unfinished past actions and completed past actions. The student must demonstrate their understanding of when to use each verb tense in English.

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.