HOMEWORK 1 : PAST SIMPLE VS PAST PERFECT

Form
Write down the correct form (pronoun + verb).

Simple Past

Past Perfect

they / work

I / see

she / tidy

he / run

you / buy

Choosing the correct form

Choose the correct tense (simple past or past perfect simple). 1. When I 2. I 3. Bob 4. I 5. As Vanessa us. at school, the lesson to New York last month. I us into his room because he very hungry because I the film before, she anything yet. to go to the cinema with . to the USA before. it for weeks.

Filling in the correct form

Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or past perfect simple). 1. William (live) 2. The blue car (cross) 3. When James (try) 4. After Joanna (finish) in Boston for six years before he (move) the street after the lights (turn) to ring us, we (leave / already) her presentation, we (ask) to New York. red. the house. our questions.

5. On her first day at the driving school, we (be) not) a car before.

very nervous because we (drive /

Text
Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or pas perfect simple). 1. It (be) I (start) 2. I (switch) 3. Then I (begin) paper. 4. But the notes (be) I (put) 5. I (turn) 6. And where (find / I) 7. I (leave) 8. Now that I (find) 9. First I (know / not) them. the whole house upside down. my notes? them in the sitting room, under a huge staple of papers and magazines. my notes, I (want) what to write but then I (have) to continue writing my essay. lots of ideas. a cold and rainy Sunday, so I (decide) writing a few days before. on the computer and (open) looking for my notes that I (handwrite) the document. on a sheet of to finish the essay that

not on my desk and I (can / not)

remember where

HOMEWORK 2: SIMPLE PAST VS PAST PERFECT

Form
Write down the correct form (pronoun + verb).

Simple Past

Past Perfect Simple

I / go

he / drive

they / put

you / feel

she / stop

Use
When do we use which tense? 1. 'Already' is a signal word for ... 2. 'before that day' is a signal word for ... 3. 'first' is a signal word for ... 4. 'up to then' is a signal word for ... 5. 'then' is a signal word for ...

Choosing the correct form

Choose the correct tense (simple past or past perfect simple). 1. We 2. Wendy 3. The gardener 4. I 5. She away the flowers that we the letter that she the trees that he into the taxi that my friend to wear the jumper that her mum . . for me. . .

Filling in the correct form

Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or past perfect simple). 1. Yesterday a boy (destroy) 2. Jimmy (tell) 3. We (find) 4. He (sing) 5. Cathrine (open) the snowman that we (build) us about the film that he (see) the mobile phone that Marwin (lose) a song that I (hear / never) the window that I (close / just) before. . . . .