• Make questions:
She started playing tennis when she was ten.
She's very good at maths.
She was sixty when she died.
She writes three books a year.
She washes her car twice a week.
They read two books last week.
Peter's flying to Paris next week.
It takes two hours to go from Santander to Llanes.
They went to Italy by plane.
• Put the words in the right order.
(a newspaper/reads/every day/ Jill)_____________________________________________________
(football/don't like/very much/ I)______________________________________________________
(lost/ I/ my watch/ last week)_________________________________________________________
(Tom/ the letter/ slowly/ read)_________________________________________________________
(London/ do you know/ ver well)______________________________________________________
(ate/ we/ very quickly/ our dinner)_____________________________________________________
(we/ at the concert/ some friends/met)___________________________________________________
• Complete these sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past simple.
Clean die enjoy finish happen live open play rain smoke start stay want watch
Yesterday evening I__________ tv.
I ____________my teeth three times yesterday.
Lucy____________20 cigarettes yesterday evening.
The concert last night ________________at 7:30 and _____________ at 10 o'clock.
The accident ______________ last Sunday afternoon.
When I was a child, I ___________ to be a doctor.
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Mozart __________ from 1756 to 1791.
We ______________ our holidays last year. We _________ at a very good hotel.
Today the weather is nice, but yesterday it ____________.
It was hot in the room, so I ______________ the window.
The weather was good yesterday afternoon, so we ____________ tennis.
William Shakespeare __________ in 1616.
• Complete these sentences with much,many and a lot (of).
We'll have to hurry. We haven't got __________ time.
Tom drinks________ milk−one litre a day.
She is very quiet person. She doesn't say ________.
I put __________ salt in the soup. Perhaps too _______.
The man was badly injured in the accident. He lost ___________ blood.
It's not a very lively town. There isn't __________to do.
This car is expensive to run. It uses _____________ petrol.
Don't disturb me. I've got ____________ work to do.
He's got so __________ money, he doesn't know what to do whit it.
He always puts _____________ salt on his food.
We didn't take _____________ photographs when we were on holiday.
• Put in for or since.
He has worked for his company ________ 1989.
He is in Cairo now. He has been there ________ last week.
Tom has played in the school football team _________ four months.
She Mill has been Jenny's class teacher _________ six months.
The Todds have lived in Willow Road __________ many years.
• Mary is 65 years old. She has had an interesting life. Write sentences about the things she has done.
Use the present perfect.
(she/ do/ many different jobs)_______________________________________________________
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(she/ travel/ to many places)________________________________________________________
(she/ do/ a lot of interesting things)___________________________________________________
(she/ write/ ten books)_____________________________________________________________
(she/ meet/a lot of interesting people)_________________________________________________
(she/ be/ married five times)________________________________________________________
• Put the verb into the correct form, present perfect or past simple.
Mr Clark __________(work) in a bank for 15 years. Then he gave it up.
Molly lives in Dublin. She___________ (live) there all her life.
Bob and Alice are married. They _______________ (be) married for 20 years.
When we were on holiday, the weather _____________(be) awful.
The weather ________________(be) very nice recently, don't you think?.
My grandfather died 30 years ago. I_____________(never/meet) him.
• You're asking Ann questions beginning have you ever...?. Write the questions.
(Paris?) Have you ever been to Paris?
(Play/ golf?)_________________________________________No, never.
(Australia?). Have ____________________________________Yes, many times.
(Lose/ your passport?) _________________________________No, never.
(Sleep/ in a park) _____________________________________Yes, once.
(Eat/ Chinese food?) ___________________________________No, never.
(New York?) ________________________________________Yes, a few times.
(win/ a lot of money?) _________________________________Yes, twice.
(break/ your leg?) _____________________________________Yes, once.
• Escribe el simple past, el infinitive, el past participe y el significado de los siguientes verbos.
Be was/were been ser/estar
Eat
Hit
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Drink
Jump
Go
Hide
Forget
Mean
Shut
Sleep
Lose
Know
Wake
Throw
Swim
Swear
Understand
Fight
Buy
Freeze
hear
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