12904 mixed verb tenses

A - Put the verb in brackets in the correct tense:

1.

It’s

eleven

o’clock

now.

Terry

_______________

(get

up).

2. Mrs. Royston ______________ (work) in a shop from Monday to Friday.
3. We ___________ (go) to the cinema. Would you like to come?
4.

Sue?

Where

are

you?

–

I______________

(have)

a

shower.

5. Why don’t you go out? I can’t. It ____________________ (rain). It always
____________

on

Saturdays.

6. Mr. Moore ___________ (travel) to London every day, but today he ____________
(travel)
7.

to

Excuse

8.

Tom

9.

They

10.
11.

me,

America.

_____________________

_________________

(have)

_________________
Listen!

She’s

She

shower

(not/watch)

Somebody

tired.

a

(you/speak)
at

television

the

(want)

moment.

very

________________

__________________

English?
often.

(sing).
to

go

home.

12. Excuse me. but you ____________ (sit) in my place. Oh, I’m sorry.
13. I’m sorry, I _____________________ (not/understand). Please speak more slowly.
14.

Please

15.

don’t

How

make

so

many

much

languages

noise.

I

______________

____________

(study).

(Tom/speak)?

16. This machine _____________________ (not/work). It hasn’t worked for years.
17. Hurry! The bus ____________________ (come). I___________________
(not/want)

to

miss

it.

18. I ___________ (be) at a party. I usually __________ (enjoy) parties but I
___________
19.

When

(not
we

/

____________

(go)

enjoy)
out,

it

this

one.

________________

(rain).

20. I wasn’t hungry last night. I _________________ (not/eat) anything.
21.

________________

(you/watch)

(phone)

television

when

I

______________

you?

22. I______________ (get) up early this morning. I ________________ (wash),
____________

(dress)

and

then

I_____________

(have)

breakfast.

23. Tom _____________ (take) a photograph of me while I______________ (not/look).

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24. We ______________ (not/go) out because it _________________ (rain).
25. I ____________ (see) Carol at the party. She _____________ (wear) a really
beautiful dress.

B) Put the verb in brackets in the correct tense:
I usually____________ (watch) TV for about 3 hours a day and right now I
____________ (watch) some cartoons. My brother ____________ (not / like) cartoons
so I can only __________ (watch) half of my programme and then we have to change

channels so that he _____________ (can) watch half of his favourite programme,
wrestling. Yuk, I hate it!
So, when we__________ (change) channels I __________probably
_____________ (go) to my bedroom and do my homework. I ____________ (must)
write a report about our school trip to the zoo last weekend. We __________ (go) there
with our teachers last Saturday and we _____________ (see) lots of strange animals. I
___________

(enjoy)

it

very

much

as

I__________

(like)

animals.

Have you ever been to the zoo? Some people ___________ (think) zoos are cruel places
but I ____________ (disagree). All the animals, which I ____________ (see) last
Saturday _____________ (seem) to be happy.

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