ADDITIONAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE: PRE-INTERMEDIATE

Complete the sentences with the verb in the right tense (present simple/continuous, past
simple/continuous, going to future, will future.

1. Take your umbrella, it ___________________ (rain).

2. He ____________________ (sleep) when the doorbell ___________________ (ring).
3. We ___________________ (eat) dinner at 8pm last night.
4. She ___________________ (take) a salsa dancing class every Tuesday.
5. I'm sorry, I ___________________ (not / understand).
6. Yesterday I ___________________ (go) to the post office, ___________________ (buy)
some fruit at the supermarket and ___________________ (read) a book in the park in the
afternoon.
7. We ___________________ (watch) TV when we ___________________ (hear) a loud
noise.
8. Julie ___________________ (be) in the garden when Laurence __________________
(arrive).
9. A: What ___________________ (you / do) at 3pm yesterday?
B: I ___________________ (clean) my house.
10. Last year I ___________________ (visit) Paris and Rome.
11. What ___________________ (Susie / do) tomorrow?
12. John ___________________ (not / work) on Sundays.
13. They ___________________ (have) dinner when the police ___________________
(come) to the door.
14. What ___________________ (you / eat) at the moment?
15. He ___________________ (work) in the garden when he ___________________ (find)
the money.
16. We ________________ (go) to see our grandmother tomorrow.
17. I ___________________ (go) to the Zoo tomorrow. ___________________ (You ever
be) there? Yes, I _____________ (be) there last Sunday. I _____________ (go) nearly every
weekend.
18. What ___________________ (you look for)? I _____________ (lose) my purse near here
and I want to find it before it _____________ (get) dark