Name: ________________________________

Date: ________________________________

Part A:
Instructions: Answer each question in full sentences. Give an example for each.
1. When is Present Perfect Simple used? How is it formed? Give an example.

2. When is Present Perfect Continuous used? How is it formed? Give an example.

Part B: Situations
Instructions: Read the situations and write two sentences using the words in brackets
1. Tom started reading a book two hours ago. He is still reading it and now he is on page 53.
(read / for two hours) __________________________________________________________
(read/ 53 pages so far) __________________________________________________________
2. Linda is from Australia. She is travelling round Europe at the moment. She began her tour 3
months ago.
(travel/ for 3 months) ________________________________________________________________________
(visit/ six countries so far) ____________________________________________________________________
3. Jimmy is a tennis player. He began playing tennis when he was ten years old. This year he is national
champion again for the fourth time.
(win/ the national championship four times) ______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
(play/ tennis since he was ten) _________________________________________________________________
4. When they finished college, Mary and Sue stared making music together. They still make music.
(make/ ten songs since they finished college) _____________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
(make / music since they finished college)
_____________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

Part C: Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative Sentences Instructions: Complete each sentence by using the verb in the correct tense

1. Look! Someone ________________ (break) that window!

2. You look tired. ________________ (you/ work) hard?
3. __________________________________ (you/ ever / work) in a factory? No,
never.
4. Jane is away on holiday. Oh, where ________________________________
(she/ go)?
5. I ________________ (practise) the piano for 30 minutes.1
6. Bob ________________ (run) 10 km.
7. The children ________________ (be) on holiday for six
days.
8. The dog ________________ (bark) since midnight.
9. We ________________ (miss) the bus twice this week.
10. You ________________ (eat / not) up yet.
11. We ________________ (know / not) them for a long
time.
12. She ________________ (hang / not) up all the pictures yet.
13. How long _______________________________ (wait / she) for us?
14. How many times ________________________________ (tell / I) you?
15. How many months ________________________________ (take /
you) piano lessons?
16. ________________________________ (stay / you / ever) in a castle?
17. He ________________ (speak / not) on the phone for half an hour, just a couple of
minutes.
18. They ________________ (work / not) since 5 o'clock. They just started an hour ago.