This document provides a grammar practice exercise with questions about verb tenses and forms. It contains 9 exercises focusing on the present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, future, and questions. The exercises include completing sentences with the correct verb form, rewriting sentences using "used to", and finding sentences that could use "would" instead of "used to".

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Grammar practice – standard Unit 1
Tense review
1 Complete the sentences using the present simple, present
continuous or imperative form of the verbs in the box.
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1 I my grandparents in
Cantabria every year.
2 the window! It’s cold!
3 We house at the moment.
4 I to get to Manaus. Is there
another flight?
5 near the water! You might fall
in!
2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs
in brackets.
1 I (wait) here for two hours!
2 They (look) at travel books
about Brazil all morning.
5 Carol (not ever live) on her
own.
3 Complete the text using the past simple, past continuous or
past perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.
A few years ago I 1 (be) lucky enough to
visit Australia with my girlfriend. We 2 (hear)
that it was easy to hire a camper van so we
3 (decide) to drive up the east coast to
Queensland to see the Great Barrier Reef. While we
4 (travel), we 5 (live) in the
van and 6 (cook) on the beach. It was great
fun! However, one weekend we 7 (lose) our
credit cards and had no money until the banks opened
again. We 8 (park) the van and went to the
beach to discuss what we could do. Unfortunately, while
we 9 (sit) on the beach, the police
10 (take) away our van because it was
illegally parked! So we had no money and nowhere to live
until Monday morning!
4 Complete the sentences with the correct future form of the
verbs in brackets.
1 This time next week, we (live)
in the new house!
2 I (meet) Sam and John later
for coffee.
3 In 20 years’time, everybody
(have) electric cars.
4 That looks heavy. I (help) you.
5 By the end of this year, she
(travel) by plane 25 times.
5 Complete the text with the correct form of verbs from the
box.
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travel visit
They 1 the best thing about travel is the
journey rather than the arrival. But I 2 never
travelling before I 3 Indonesia.
I 4 the delays and waiting in airports and
stations to be very boring and tiring. But while I
5 around Java, my ideas 6 to
change. Everything 7 slowly there. You
8 entire mornings waiting for buses
and trains so you have to start enjoying the process of
travelling; otherwise you 9 crazy!
I 10 a much better attitude to travelling ever
since then.
6 Write yes/no questions in a suitable tense using the verbs in
brackets.
1 you / many travel books? (read)
2 you / this programme / at the moment? (watch)
3 you / Dublin / next weekend? (travel)
7 Complete the questions with suitable question words.
1 museum would you prefer to visit?
2 does the sightseeing tour last?
3 will the tickets cost?
8 Complete the sentences with the words from the box. Then
rewrite them using the correct form of used to.
used wasn’t went were weren’t worked
1 Children happy with simple toys.
2 Fewer people to university in those days.
3 Most people on Saturdays.
4 Everybody pens to write documents.
5 There so many unemployed people.
6 Travelling abroad so easy in the past.
9 Find four sentences from Exercise 1 that could use would
instead of used to and rewrite them below.
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