Exercise 8: Put the verb in brackets into the present simple or past simple
1. “Romeo and Juliet” ______________ (write) by Shakespeare
2. These pictures ________________ (take) during our last Christmas
3. All the reports ________________ (type) by secretary
4. The garbage ________________ (collect) every day.
5. The email ________________ (send) to you two hours ago.
6. When ________________ your mother ________________ (get up) in the morning?
7. I ________________ (not/ know) how to drive a car.
8. Tom always ________________ (eat) breakfast. Yesterday he ________________ (not to eat) breakfast because he ________________ (get up) late.
9. He never ________________ (shout) at his students. He ________________ (be) a wonderful teacher, I remember.
10. Who ________________ (ring) you up an hour ago?
11. I ________________ (have) dinner with my family yesterday.
12. She ________________ (know) all the works of Chopin. She ________________ (enjoy) listening to his waltz last night.
13. Queen Elizabeth II ________________ (be) born in 1926. She ________________ (become) Queen of England in 1952.
14. - ________________ you always ________________ (get up) at seven o’clock?
- No, sometimes I ________________ (get) up at half past seven.
15. Her friends ________________ (be) ready at five o’clock.
16. I ________________ coffee every morning. (drink)
17. He ________________ work at 7:30 yesterday. (leave)
18. The small cat ________________ with me last night. (sleep)
19. She ________________ her homework two days ago. (do)
20. They ________________ funny books every class. (read)
21. The girls always ________________ the guitar. (play)
22. We ________________ to Colombia last year. (go)
23. Yesterday it ________________ (be) a wonderful day because we ________________ (go) to the mountains. We usually ________________ (go) to the beach but yesterday we ________________ (not)
24. My sister always ________________ (ride) a bike to go to school but today she ________________ (take) the bus because she ________________ (be) late.
25. I ________________ (not have) breakfast this morning because I ________________ (have) a terrible stomachache but right now I ________________ (feel) much better.
26. My father ________________ (not work) in a hospital, he ________________ (work) in a school. He ________________ (be) a teacher and last week he ________________ (have) a spelling contest and all his students’ parents ________________ (be) invited and they ________________ (like) it so much.
