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Grammar Lesson: Tense Review

Personal Information Quiz

  1. When did you last see a film?
  2. How many times have you been abroad?
  3. What type of books do you like reading?
  4. When were you born?
  5. How long have you been learning English?
  6. Which classes are being taught in your school at this moment?
  7. What will the weather be like tomorrow?
  8. What were you doing at 7 o'clock yesterday evening?
  9. What are your parents doing?
  10. Where are your classes taught?

What are the names of the tenses used in the above questions?

  • Past Continuous
  • Present Simple Passive
  • Present Perfect
  • Future Intent
  • Present Perfect Continuous
  • Past Simple Passsive
  • Future Prediction
  • Present Simple
  • Present Continuous
  • Past Simple

Instructions: Please enter the correct auxilliary verb. Choose between: are, is, do, does, did, have, or will.

  1. He ____ playing the guitar at the moment.
  2. Jackie ____ been living in Paris for a few months.
  3. Which sports _____ he like?
  4. They _____ travelled all over the world.
  5. My shoes _____ made in Italy.
  6. Peter ____ going to fly to London next Thursday.
  7. Do you think the current government ____ change soon?
  8. Yamaha pianos ____ made in Japan.
  9. Jane ____ doing here homework when I came home last night.
  10. When ____ you arrive last night?

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