Present and Past Tenses

What is the use of Past Simple here?

I went to the cinema yesterday.

• finished past action

• habit

• duration

When we arrived, the film __________

• started

• have started

• had started

What is the use of past perfect simple in the sentence?

I went out after I had done my homework.

• action happened before another past action

• two simultaneous actions

• duration of an action

• none

He _____________ the car for two hours.

• had been repairing

• is repairing

• repairs

• has been repairing

It _________ (rain) very hard at the moment.

What is the use of Present Continuous in this sentence?

Jeremy usually goes to school by bus, but today his dad is driving him.

• routine

• fixed arrangement in the near future

• right now

• temporary situation

Jeremy usually _______ (go) to school by bus, but today his dad is driving him.

What is the name of the underlined tense?

I went out after I had done my homework.

• Past Simple

• Present Perfect Simple

• Past Perfect Simple

• Past Continuous

What is the use of Past Continuous here?

I was doing my homework when the phone rang.

• short action interrupted longer action

• finished past action

• habit

• longer action interrupted by short action

What is the use of Past Simple here?

I was doing my homework when the phone rang

• longer action interrupted by the short action

• short action interrupted longer action

• finished action

• general information