NEWTON 5 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL

ACADEMIC YEAR 2023 – 2024

ENGLISH FOR GIFTED STUDENTS – Grade 4
PRESENT SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS, PAST SIMPLE

Name: ____________________________________ Class: _______

A. PRESENT SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS, PAST SIMPLE

Make sentences with each form of Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple
Tense and write the Signal words of those tenses.
Present Simple Present Continuous Past Simple

Affirmative

Negative

Interrogative

Signal words

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B. Exercise
I. Use the correct form of verbs in Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple
Tense in brackets.
1. In all the world, there __________ (be) only 14 mountains that __________ (reach)
above 8,000 meters.
2. He sometimes __________ (come) to see his parents.
3. When I __________ (come), she __________ (leave) for Dalat ten minutes ago.
4. My grandfather never __________ (fly) in an airplane, and he has no intention of ever
doing so.
5. Last night we __________ (watch) TV and __________ (sing) English songs together.
6. ____________ (she/practice) sports in a club every day? Yes, she ____________.
7. Listen! My baby sister __________ (sing) her favourite song. She __________ (like)
to sing a lot. Last week, she __________ (take) part in a big concert and __________
(feel) proud of it.
8. We __________ (usually, drink) coffee in the morning. But now I ____________
(have) tea.
9. What __________ (he, draw) last Sunday?
10. Don’t turn TV on. The boys __________ (learn) the poem by heart.
11. Yesterday, Tony __________ (do) exercises, __________ (get) dress, and
__________ (have) breakfast.
12. Wait! Where __________ (you, go)?
- I __________ (go) to the shop to buy some milk.
13. My friend __________ (always, have) breakfast before school. He __________ (not,
like) to eat somewhere else.
14. He __________ (not, write) his home task at the moment. I __________ (think) he
__________ (play) on the computer.
15. Little Kate __________ (see) an elephant two days ago and __________ (be) very
surprised.

II. Choose the best answer among A, B, C, or D.

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1. When I saw him, he _____ in the park.
A. has walked B. is walking C. was walking D. has been walking
2. We _______ Dorothy last Saturday.
A. don’t see B. haven’t seen C. didn’t see D. hadn’t seen
3. The train ______ half an hour ago.
A. has been leaving B. left C. has left D. had left
4. I ______ Texas State University now.
A. am attending B. attend C. was attending D. attended
5. Christopher Columbus _______ American more than 500 years ago.
A. discovered B. has discovered C. had discovered D. had been discovering
6. He fell down when he ______ towards the church.
A. run B. runs C. was running D. had run
7. John ______ a book when I saw him.
A. is reading B. read C. was reading D. reading
8. I couldn’t cut the grass because the lawn mower ______ a few days previously.
A. broke down B. has been broken
C. had broken down D. breaks down
9. The man got out of the car, ________ round to the back and opened the book.
A. walking B. walked C. walks D. walk
10. Henry _______ into the restaurant when the writer was having dinner.
A. was going B. went C. has gone D. did go
11. Turn off the gas. Don’t you see the kettle ________?
A. boil B. boils C. is boiling D. boiled
12. Tom and Mary ______ for Vietnam tomorrow.
A. leave B. are leaving C. leaving D. are left
13. He always ________ for a walk in the evening.
A. go B. is going C. goes D. going
14. Her brother ______ in Canada at present.
A. working B. works C. is working D. work

15. Her father ______ when she was a small girl.

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 A. dies B. died C. has died D. had died
III. Choose the underlined part in each sentence (A, B, C, or D ) that needs
correcting
1. Jimmy threw the ball high in the air, and Betty catching it when it came down.
A B C D
2. Where is she? I waited for her.
A B C D
3. Every morning, the sun shines in my bedroom window and waking me up.
A B C D
4. When my cat heard a noise in the bushes, she stopped moving and listen intently.
A B C D
5. Her brother was working in Canada at present.
A B C D
6. Someone was knocking at the door when I was doing the washing up.
A B C D
7. He always went for a walk in the evening.
A B C D
8. I don’t usually go to the cinema, but yesterday I go to see a film.
A B C D
9. Can I talk to you? – No, you can’t. I had a bath.
A B C D
10. Last week Mark told me that he got very bored with his present job and is looking for
A B C D
a new one.

IV. Use these given words to make sentences.

1. What / you / normally do / at the moment / ? /
________________________________________________________.
2. You / have / a good weekend / last month / ? /
________________________________________________________.
3. At the moment, / Katy / sit / top / volcano / and / talk / lava / . /

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 ________________________________________________________.
4. My uncle / repair / car / and / I / do / homework / yesterday / . /
________________________________________________________.
5. He / always / bring / present / when / he / visit / me / . /
________________________________________________________.
6. She / meet interesting people, / see wonderful sights, / and / enjoy herself / last
night / . /
________________________________________________________.
7. Why / you / believe / him? / He / never / tell / truth. / He / always / tell lie / . /
________________________________________________________.
8. My mother / teach / me / how / ride a bike / now / . /
________________________________________________________.
9. Tom / not / run / fast / in the last Olympic Games.
________________________________________________________.
10. Rachel / New York / right now. / she / stay / Part Hotel?
________________________________________________________.

V. For each blank, write the correct form of word.

The History of Cars
Cars have a long and interesting history. It __________ (be) difficult to believe when the first
car __________ (be) made. Most people agree that it __________ (be) made by Karl Benz in
1885. Then in the early twentieth century, cars __________ (become) widely
available.
One of the first cars that it was possible for ordinary working people to buy was the Model T
Ford, __________ (make) by Henry Ford in the USA. Henry Ford __________ (find) a way
of making a large number of cars quickly and cheaply, and this changed the way that people
__________ (think) about how to __________ (manufacture) things. By 1927, Ford
__________ (have) 11 million cars.
Today, car-making __________ (give) jobs to millions of workers. But the world
__________ (change), and the future of cars __________ (be) far from clear.

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