English Tenses Exercise 1

Which tense is used to talk about general truths and habits?

• future simple

• present continuous

• present simple

• past simple

Which tense is used to talk about completed actions in the past?

• past simple

• future perfect

• past continuous

• present simple

Which tense is used to talk about actions happening at the moment of speaking?

• past continuous

• future continuous

• present simple

• present continuous

Which tense is used to talk about actions that started in the past and continue into the present?

• simple past

• present perfect

• future perfect

• past perfect

Which tense is used to talk about actions that happened before another action in the past?

• past perfect tense

• past progressive tense

• past simple tense

• past continuous tense

Fill in the blank: He ___________ (play) football every Sunday.

• play

• playing

• plays

• played

Fill in the blank: She ___________ (visit) her grandparents last week.

• visiting

• visited

• will visit

• visits

Fill in the blank: They ___________ (watch) a movie right now.

• is watching

• watched

• were watching

• are watching

Fill in the blank: I ___________ (live) in this city for five years.

• have lived

• lived

• will live

• am living

Fill in the blank: By the time I arrived, they ___________ (already/leave).

• already arrived

• already left

• still leaving

• never left