Grammar: All English Tenses
This task may take you a bit longer than 20 minutes but to do a revision like this along with the explanation is quite time-consuming.
- Check out the chart with the tenses and watch the videos with explanations. You will open the videos by clicking on the button with the name of the tense.
- Now try the exercises from yesterday again.
If you don’t have enough time, then work for 20 – 30 minutes and see what you manage to finish. Then you can get back to it during one of the free days.
It is ok if you remember the correct answers from day 3. This is exactly what your brain needs to create templates for fast use of a language.
Exercise 1
Exercise: Tenses Revision – Choose the right answer to complete the sentence.
- When Lucie into her car, she remembered she the stove on.
- I hope the weather over the weekend because it bad for weeks now.
- We our meal on the train as it over a beautiful lake.
- Please, call me as soon as you in New York.
- him? He was supposed to be here twenty minutes ago.
- Stop making fun of Anna or else I your mom.
- She stopped talking because nobody .
- If you start baking bread now, do you think you by 5 pm?
- We for nearly an hour when we realised that we were totally lost.
- I’m under a lot of stress right now, but this time next month I wine on a beach in Greece.
Exercise 2
Exercise: Tenses Revision – Complete the sentences using the right form of the words in brackets.
Example: I was watching (watch) the Olympics when you arrived.
- Look, she ’s cleaning is cleaning cleaned (clean) the windows. Nobody has cleaned (clean) them for over a month.
- I’m so sorry that I had (have) to leave your party early. I was really enjoying (really enjoy) myself.
- I have been trying (try) to call you the whole week! Where have you been (you / be)?
- After dinner, I will watch ’ll watch watched ’m going to watch (watch) the news.
- Ben is (be) our manager at the moment. He has been (be) here for three years.
- She didn’t feel wasn’t feeling (not / feel) well yesterday because she had eaten (eat) too much.
- While I was working (work) in the garden. I hurt (hurt) by back. I went (go) to the doctor who told me that I would have to rest for a few days.
- Have you ever travelled (you / ever / travel) to Georgia? I hear it’s a beautiful country.
- We were having dinner (have / dinner) when we heard (hear) the bad news.
- By the time I get to Paris I will have travelled will have been travelling (travel) for 9 days.
- At the moment we are having (have) a long spell of rain. It has been raining (rain) constantly for the last week.
- A: “I’m really hungry.” B: “I ’m going to give will be giving ’m giving ’ll give (give) you a snack.
- Shall we have Are we going to have (we / have) coffee with our dessert?
- We had been driving (drive) for three hours when the car broke (break) down.
- I haven’t won (not / win) a competition yet this year.
- Since she started travelling, she use used were using has been using (use) social media to share photos of her adventures.
- Living in a foreign country was strange at first, but we got (get) used to it.
- The whole family arrived (arrive) a few days ago and are staying will be staying are going to stay will stay (stay) with us until next week Friday.
- I thought I saw Jane, but when I turned (turn) around, she had disappeared (disappear).
- Why do you look so tired? Did you clean Have you been cleaning (clean) the house?
Exercise 3
Exercise: Review Tenses – Choose the right answer to answer the questions.
- How long have you known each other?
- What time does the train arrive?
- How do you usually get to work?
- What were you doing yesterday afternoon?
- Who is playing the guitar upstairs?
Podívejte se na tabulku s přehledem časů. Kliknutím na tlačítko se jménem času spustíte video s vysvětlením. Některá tlačítka vedou ke stejným videím, např. Present Simple a Present Continuous, Past Simple and Past Continuous atd. Je to proto, že videa většinou časy porovnávají, abyste pochopili rozdíly v použití.
Tense | + | - | ? | Hint |
I play tennis every week. | I don't play tennis every week. | Do you play tennis every week? | usually, always, normally, every week | |
I am playing tennis now. | I'm not playing tennis now. | Are you playing tennis now? | now, at the moment, today | |
I played tennis yesterday. | I didn't play tennis yesterday. | Did you play tennis yesterday? | yesterday, last week, in 1980 | |
I was playing tennis when he came. | I wasn't playing when he came. | Were you playing when he came? | yesterday at 4 p.m., this time yesterday, while | |
I have played tennis too before. | I haven't played tennis yet. | Have you played tennis this week? | already, yet, before, ... times | |
I have been playing tennis since 2PM. | I haven't been playing for long. | How long have you been playing tennis? | How long?, since, for | |
Before he came, I had played tennis. | Before he came, I hadn't played. | Had you played before he came? | before something else | |
When you came I had been playing for three hours. | When you came I hadn't been playing for long. | How long had you been playing when I came? | How long before something else | |
I used to play tennis. | I didn't use to play tennis. | Did you use to play tennis? | in the past but not now | |
I will play tennis tomorrow. | I won't play tennis tomorrow. | Will you play tennis tomorrow? | spontaneous reaction, offer, promise etc | |
I'm going to play tennis. | I'm not going to play tennis. | Are you going to play tennis? | plan, it looks like it | |
I'm playing tennis tonight. | I'm not playing tennis tonight. | Are you playing tennis? | arrangement with some |
