Arbeitsblatt: present perfect oder past simple

Test past tenses: present perfect and past simple name: 63 57 50 43 37 30 – – – – – – 66 62 56 49 42 36 6 5 5 4 4 3 total: 66 1. Present perfect: Fill the gaps with the verbs in brackets. a) They (talk) to her friend. b) You(take) the kids to the swimming pool. c) Lisa (swim) in the river. d) (leave) the bus. e) My father (cook) meal. f) Bob (eat) burger. g) We (love) the new songwriter. h) She (live) in England. i) Mr. Dawson (help) his daughter. j) (think) about my marks (Noten). 10 2. Present perfect: Complete the sentences and underline the signalwords. The Browns (start) working in the garden. Mr. Brown already (cut) the grass but they (not prepare) the flowerbeds. They (not have) the time. they (buy) any plants? Yes, but Mrs. Brown (not plant) them yet. Mr. Brown is tired. He just (sit) down. 3. Make sentences as required (vorgeschrieben). a) past simple (-): finish I homework my yesterday. 10 b) present perfect (?): ever a you fever get c) past simple (?): he his brush teeth d) present perfect (): tea just we drink our 4. Present perfect or past simple? Correct the mistakes if necessary. 6 Example: They buuckt flight. booked a) Have you ever eat Chinese food? b) Jack hasnt talk to her last year. c) She has moved to another city in 2005. d) Until now, Mr. Brown worked in this office. e) They havent sent the invitations yet. f) The lesson has started 10 minutes ago. 6 5. Present perfect or past simple? Put the verbs in brackets in the correct time. a) Mother: want to prepare dinner. you (wash) the dishes yet? Daughter: (wash) the dishes yesterday. b) Mother: you already (do) your homework? Daughter: No, just (come) home from school. c) Mother: You (come) home from school two hours ago. Daughter: Well, but my friend Lucy (call) and then (fall) asleep. 7 6. Present perfect or past simple: Complete the sentences with the suitable (passenden) signalwords (sig.) and put the verbs in brackets in the correct time. a) (be) (sig.) very fit, and (sig.)(have) an illness. b) However, couple of weeks (sig.) (catch) flew. c) The doctors (not find) medicine (sig.) 6 7. Present perfect or past simple: Complete the sentences with the correct verb and time. make be drive visit see go meet invite a) We the zoo last Tuesday. b) you Jack today? Yes. think him before lunch. c) Last week some 3000 kilometer. d) three model airplanes this morning. e) We to the beach almost every day this summer so far. f) They us for Christmas. 7 8. Present perfect or past simple: Put the verbs into the correct time to complete the text. All my life (like) playing with model train sets. think originally (get) it from my father. Ever since he was boy he (love) building model railways. During my early years (be) happy to play with my clockwork train for hours, but as (grow) older, switched to electric. Of course lot (change) since those days. One brand (Marke) (switch) too late to plastic trains. As consequence the brand (go) bankrupt in 1972. They (have) even more troubles after that, but after change of management in 1981, the brand (come) back to life. For nearly twenty years now, it(be) public company, and in the last few years they even (buy) some other famous names in the toy market, that (be) famous for long time for their plastic model airplane kits. Finally, the brand (become) famous again. 14