This document provides a grammar review exercise covering various verb tenses including present simple, present continuous, imperative, past simple, past continuous, past perfect, future, and questions. The exercise contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions testing the use of these verb tenses in different contexts like describing routines, ongoing actions, past experiences, future plans, and asking questions. The goal is to reinforce the understanding and appropriate usage of various verb tenses in the English language.

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Tense review
1 Complete the sentences with the present simple, present
continuous or imperative form of the verbs in brackets.
1 I (see) my grandparents in
Cantabria every year.
2 (close) the window! It’s cold!
3 We (move) house at the
moment.
4 I (try) to get to Manaus. Is
there another flight?
5 (not go) near the water! You
might fall in!
2 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 I ’ve waited / ’ve been waiting here for two hours!
2 They ’ve looked / ’ve been looking at travel books about Brazil
all morning.
3 Carol hasn’t ever lived / hasn’t ever been living on her own.
3 Complete the sentences with the past simple, past
continuous or past perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.
1 I (visit) Australia some years
before I (go) to university.
2 While we (sit) on the beach,
it (start) to rain.
3 Dave (decide) to drive to
Ayer’s Rock because he
(hear) it was beautiful.
4 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 Very few people used to / use to have the internet in those
days.
2 The Brazilian Amazon wouldn’t / didn’t use to be a holiday
destination.
3 Hotels would / wouldn’t to look after their customers.
4 When I was a kid, we would / would to climb trees.
5 You did use to / Did you use to travel by train?
5 Choose the best future tense answers to complete the
sentences.
1 This time next week, we will be living / are living in the new
house!
2 I am meeting / will meet Sam and John at 5 pm for coffee.
3 In 20 years’time, everybody is going to have / will have
electric cars.
4 Look at the sky. It will be raining / is going to rain for sure.
5 That looks heavy. I will help / am helping you.
6 I will take / will be taking my books back to the library
tomorrow.
7 By the end of this year, she’s going to travel / will have
travelled by plane 24 times.
6 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets using
the most appropriate tense.
1 I (work) hard all morning.
2 It (rain) when we started the
journey.
3 Sally (work) as a flight
attendant.
4 He (never, go) to New York.
5 There (not be) any road travel
in the next century.
6 (answer) the phone! My
hands are wet!
7 (you, see) today’s newspaper?
7 Put the words in the correct order to make yes/no questions.
1 many / you / books / read / Do / ?
2 this / at / you / moment / watching / Are / programme /
the / ?
3 to / weekend / travelling / you / Dublin / be / Will / next / ?
8 Complete the questions using the question words from the
box.
How long How much Which
1 museum would you prefer to visit?
2 does the sightseeing tour last?
3 will the tickets cost?
9 Rewrite the sentences with used to or didn’t use to.
1 Children were happy with simple toys.
2 Fewer people went to university in those days.
3 Most people worked on Saturdays.
4 Everybody used pens to write documents when in the
office.
5 There weren’t so many unemployed people.
6 Travelling abroad wasn’t so easy in the past.
10 Rewrite these sentences from Exercise 9 using would.
1 Fewer people went to university in those days.
2 Most people worked on Saturdays.
3 Everybody used pens to write documents when in the
office.
Unit 1Grammar practice – reinforcement