This document provides examples of verbs used in different tenses, including the present simple, present continuous, past simple, and past continuous. It includes exercises for learners to practice conjugating verbs into the appropriate tense based on time frames and contextual clues. Key tenses featured are the present simple to indicate habitual actions, past simple for completed actions, present continuous for ongoing actions, and past continuous for ongoing actions that were interrupted by other events.

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1. Two and two (make) ……..
four.
2. Leaves (fall) …….. in Autumn.
3. The earth (go) …….. around the
sun.
4. The sun (rise) …….. in the east.
5. He (work) …….. in a bank.
6. She (get) …….. at five o’clock
every day.
7. Now she (get) …….. up.
8. It (rain) …….. a lot in Summer.
9. Look! It (rain) …….. .
10. Bees (make) …….. honey.
11. Look! The bees (make) ……..
honey.
12. She (sing) …….. in a church.
13. Listen! She (sing) …….. .
14. He reads a newspaper while he
(wait) …….. for the bus.
15. Hello, I (be) …….. Jane. I
(be) …….. 13 years old. I (go)
…….. Changi High School.
16. He sometimes (smoke) ……..
but he (not, drink) …….. alcohol.
17. He usually (teach) ……..

2. English at a school but at the
moment he (not, teach) ……..
18. Watch out! A car (come) …...
19. Thomas (brush) …….. his
teeth several times a day. Look!
He (brush) …….. his teeth.
20. Sheep (produce) …….. wools.
Look! They (get) …….. wools
from the sheep.
21. He usually (sing) …….. while
he (work) …….. hard.
22. 3+4 (be) …….. greater than 6.
23. Hens often (lay) …….. eggs
but cows (bear) …….. babies.
24. The sun (shine) …….. a lot in
Summer. Look! The sun (shine)
…….. .
25. Roses (smell) …….. sweet.
26. Coffee (taste) …….. bitter.
27. I (be) …….. a boy and I (like)
…….. actions.
28. Water (run) …….. downhill.
29. Listen! The water (run) ……..
.
30. He never (smoke) …….. : he
hates it.

3. 31. There (be) …….. a lot of green
grass in Spring and there (be)
…….. a lot of snow in Winter.
32. He (like) …….. computers.
33. She (be) …….. very kind.
34. She (sell) …….. mobile phones
in a mall.
35. Smell! Something (burn)
…….. around here.
Exercise 1: Put the verbs in the
Past simple.
1. Yesterday he (go) …….. to
Hanoi.
2. Yesterday he (not, do) …….. it.
3. Yesterday (you, do) …….. it?
4. Last year I (work) …….. in
China.
5. Last year I (not, work) …….. in
Vietnam.
6. Last year (you, work) …….. in
Vietnam?
7. She (be) …….. born in 1990.
8. She (not, be) …….. born in
2000.
9. (she, be) …….. born in 2011?

4. 10. (she, not, be) …….. born in
2010?
Exercise 2: Put the verbs in the
Past continuous.
1. He (work) …….. in the garden.
2. He (not, work) …….. in the
field.
3. (he, work) …….. on farm?
Exercise 3: Put the verbs in the
Past simple or Past continuous.
1. He (live) …….. in Ho Chi Minh
City 5 years ago.
2. Pasteur (find) …….. out
bacteria.
3. Yesterday he (visit) ……..
London.
4. Yesterday at 9 A.M. he (visit)
…….. London.
5. In 1975, there (be) …….. an
important event.
6. Once up on a time a tiger (live)
…….. in a forest.
7. One day the tiger (come) ……..

5. to a farmer.
8. He escaped while they (talk)
…….. to somebody.
9. In the old times, people in Egypt
(build) …….. the pyramids.
10. Columbus (discover) ……..
America.
Mixed Tenses: Put the verbs in the
Present Simple, the Present
Continuous, the Past Simple, or the
Past Continuous
1. Penguins (lay) ……..eggs.
2. Light (travel) …….. at about
300,000 kilometers an hour.
3. Look! The penguins (swim)
…….. in the sea.
4. He usually (sing) …….. in a
choir. Listen! He (sing) …….. in
the concert hall.
5. Shakespeare (write) ……..
Hamlet.
6. Newton (discover) ……..
gravity.
7. At the moment the scientists
(study) …….. something.

6. 8. In 1969 Neil Armstrong (land)
…….. on the moon.
9. Yesterday there (be) …….. a
bank robbery in Central London.
10. In 1010, King Ly Thai To
(move) …….. the Capital to a new
place.
11. Grasshoppers (eat) …….. a lot
of plants and trees.
12. In 1912 when the Titanic
(cross) …….. the Atlantic Ocean ,
it (hit) …….. an iceberg and (sink)
…….. .
13. He (work) …….. in the garden
at 10 A.M. yesterday.
14. Uncle Ho (be) …….. born in
1889.
15. They (build) …….. Vinh Trang
Pagoda in 1849.
16. I (think) …….. . Therefore, I
(be) …….. . (René Descartes)
17. Men (propose) …….. but god
(impose) …….. .