6179 present perfect simple or continuous

Name: ________________________________

Date: ________________________________

Part A: Theory – 6 marks
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 – 8 marks
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)
_____________________________________

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Part C: Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative Sentences - 18 marks
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.
Part D: Text – 18 marks
Instructions: Mrs. Ellis is writing to her son, Thomas, who is a student. Write the most suitable present perfect
form (simple or continuous) using the words in brackets.
Dear Thomas,
It be) 1. __It has been __ several weeks since we last had a letter
from you. (we hope) 2. _________ _______________ to hear from you. Why
(not you write) 3. _______________ to us? You know how much your letters
(always mean) 4. _______________ to us.
(I send) 5. _______________ a parcel you with some food and warm

clothes. Your father (save) 6. _______________ the weekly sports magazines
you like to read, and (we put) 7. _______________ these in the parcel too.
Life (go on) 8. _______________ as usual here. Mr. Jones next door,
who (not enjoy) 9. _______ _______________ good health recently, (have to )
10. _______________ go into the hospital. (He have) 11. _______________ an
operation and will be home again soon. Meanwhile, his cat (come)12._______
_______________ to us for food and milk. I think (we manage) 13.__________
_______________ to look after it quite well.
(You see) 14. _______________ anything of Mark Andrews? Apparently
(he leave) 15.______________ school now and is at the same college as you.
(We get) 16. _______________ news of him regularly from his mother. But,
of course he’s two years younger than you. (He not say) 17. _____________
_______________ if (he meet) 18. _______________ you or not.
By now your first exams will be over. We hope (you do) 19. _________
_______________ well in them.
Write back soon.
Lots of love,
Mom


Total Marks: 50 marks