REVISION EXERCISES

A. Fill in the gaps with the Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple or Past
Continuous of the verbs in brackets.
1. My sister ____________________ (throw) away empty bottles every day. She
____________________ (not/recycle) them.
2. When we were in Chicago, we ____________________ (not/eat) any American
hamburgers.
3. Be quiet! I ____________________ (watch) a programme about the life cycle of
ketchup.
4. What time ____________________ (the lorry/leave) the supermarket yesterday
afternoon?
5. Yesterday mum ____________________ (cook) dinner when the phone
____________________ (ring).
6. How often ____________________ (your children/eat) junk food?

B. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct verb tense.

I come from a very large family and recently my parents decided they
____________________ (spend) long enough living in an overcrowded house in
Birmingham. “We ____________________ (move) to the country”, my father said one
evening. And so, for the last few days we ____________________ (try) to organize
ourselves in our new home. Yesterday, my three brothers and I ____________________
(start) painting the downstairs rooms. Unfortunately, while I ____________________ (mix)
the paint, one of my sisters ____________________ (open) the door. Nobody
____________________ (tell) her that we were in the room. So instead of painting the
walls, we ____________________ (spend) all morning cleaning the paint of the floor. But
worse things ____________________ (happen) since then. This morning when I
____________________ (wake up), water ____________________ (drip) through the
ceiling next to my bed. We ____________________ (spend) today so far repairing the roof.