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This document contains revision notes and exercises on verb tenses for a student. It covers the present tense, present continuous tense, and past tense. For each tense, it provides examples of how to conjugate verbs for different subjects (I, you, he/she/it, etc.) and includes common time markers used with each tense. The exercises section has 24 sentences for the student to complete using the appropriate verb tenses.

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F1 Eng 31

This document contains revision notes and exercises on verb tenses for a student. It covers the present tense, present continuous tense, and past tense. For each tense, it provides examples of how to conjugate verbs for different subjects (I, you, he/she/it, etc.) and includes common time markers used with each tense. The exercises section has 24 sentences for the student to complete using the appropriate verb tenses.

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S.K.H. ST.

SIMON’S LUI MING CHOI SECONDARY SCHOOL


F.1 English
Revision notes and exercises for the school suspension
Name: _______________________ Class: __________ ( ) Date: ____________________
Tenses
1. Present tense

He / she / it à verb + s/es


I / we / you / they à verb no change

Question: (1) Verb to be: Is / Am / Are

e.g. Are you hungry?

(2) Action verbs: Do (I / you / we / they)


Does ( He / she / it )

e.g. Do you like English?


Does she like eating chocolate?
** Time markers **

every day every morning every week every year


once a week twice a month three times a year
always usually often sometimes seldom never

2. Present Continuous tense

I à am à verb + ing
He / she / it à is à verb + ing
We / you / they à are à verb + ing

Question: Is / Am / Are à verb (ing)

e.g. Is it raining outside?


** Time markers **

now at the moment at present still


listen look while **when

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3. Past tense

He / she / it / I / we / you / they à verb + d/ed/ change the whole verb

Question: (1) Verb to be: Was / Were

e.g. Was you a member of the Drama club?

(2) Action verbs: Did


e.g. Did you eat the hamburger yesterday?

** Time markers **

yesterday last night last Monday last week last summer


last year ten minutes ago two days ago in the past
in 1980 once upon a time this morning

Exercises

A. Use the present tense of the given words to complete the following sentences.

1. Simon usually _____________ (leave) home at 7 o’clock.


2. Jason sometimes _____________ (go) to school on foot.
3. I _____________ (attend) Japanese lesson once a week.
4. My mother and my father always _____________ (cook) a lot of delicious food for us.
5. I _____________ (play) tennis with my father every week.
6. _____________ you _____________ (drink) milk every morning?

B. Use the present continuous tense of the given words to complete the following sentences.
1. My father _______________________ (take) a shower in the bathroom now.
2. When the bell is ringing, David _______________________ (do) his homework in the living room.
3. Mary and Susan _______________________ (cook) the dinner for us in the kitchen at the moment.
4. Look! The bird _______________________ (fly) in the blue sky.
5. I _______________________ (read) comics in at present.
6. My little brother _______________________ (play) football in the playground while my elder sister
_______________________ (sleep) in the bedroom.

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C. Use the past tense of the given words to complete the following sentences.
1. The police _____________ (catch) the thieves in Tsim Sha Taui yesterday.
2. Last Tuesday, I __________________ (lose) my key in the playground.
3. This morning, I ___________________ (wake) up at 7:00 a.m.
4. Once upon a time, a dog ate a magic chocolate and it ___________________ (become) a monster..
5. My mother ___________________ (fly) to Paris for a conference yesterday night.
6. Peter gets very poor examination result because he _____________________ (not do) any revision
yesterday.

D. Use the appropriate tenses of the given words to complete the following sentences.
1. I ___________________ (write) an email to Ann two days ago.
2. She ___________________ (call) him this afternoon but he was out.
3. I ____________________ (wait) for my litter brother at the moment.
4. Jack ___________________ (fall) off his bicycle yesterday and hurt his knees.
5. Cherry ___________________ (be) never absent from school.
6. “He had a bad cold yesterday. _________she __________ (see) a doctor?” No, he didn’t.
7. We ___________________ (not take) the MTR every morning.
8. At present, my classmates ___________________ (clean) the classroom.
9. She ___________________ (be) busy. She ___________________ (not go) with us last night.
10. The weather was bad this morning. We ___________________ (not play) football.
11. My parents ___________________ (not work) on Sundays.
12. Listen! Someone ____________________ (scream) outside.
13. Peter ___________________ (take) a shower every day.
14. I ___________________ (feel) tired so I went to bed early last night.
15. They ___________________ (not be) twelve years old.
16. My sister _____________________ (take) a bath while my brother ____________________ (do) his
homework.
17. _________they __________ (go) to China often? Yes, they do.
18. Rabbits always ___________________ (run) faster than turtles.
19. _________ he __________ (hurt) himself? No, he did not get hurt.
20. ____________ the children _______________ (play) football now?
21. _________he __________ (he / work) long hours? Yes, he works from 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.
22. It ___________________ (not be) clean.
23. _________ (be) the weather bad last Sunday? No, it ___________________ (be) a sunny day.
24. Ann ___________________ (not like) to go shopping.

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