Active Tenses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Past 

Simple

Past 

Continuous

Present Perfect

Past

Perfect

altijd, nooit, regelmatig

komt voor iets anders in vt

duurde even in vt

'aan het" doen

NU 'aan het" doen

gebeurde in vt, duidelijk wanneer

begonnen in vt, nu nog., weet niet wanneer.

I have jumped

I jumped

I jump, he jumps

I am jumping

I was jumping

I had jumped

Fill in the correct tense:
Please shut up, I _____ (to try) to read this.

Fill in the correct tense:
My brother never _______ (to go) to school by bike.

Fill in the right tenses. Divide them by a slash (... / ...).

I _____ (to ride) my bike when I _____ (to fall) off.

Fill in the right tenses:
I ____ (to read) a book while my dad ___ (to listen) to music.

Fill in the correct tense:
We _____ (to live) here for 10 years.

Fill in the correct tense:
A few years ago we ______ (to go) on holiday to Spain.

Fill in the right tense:
Before we went to the party, we ______ (to go) out to dinner.

Turn these events into a sentence starting with ' After'.
Don't use the specific times given.
8 am I woke up
9 am I showered

Indicate the tense of the verb:

My dad always falls asleep on the couch.

1. present perfect
2. present simple
3. past perfect
4. past simple

Indicate the tense of the verb:

I haven't seen her since that day.

1. present perfect
2. present simple
3. past perfect
4. past simple

Fill in the correct form:
I ______ (not + to see) her here recently.

1. don't see
2. didn't see
3. haven't seen
4. didn't saw

Fill in the correct form:
Shh be quiet! The baby _____ (to sleep).

1. is sleeping
2. sleeps
3. slept
4. has slept

Indicate the tenses of the verbs:

She was running really fast when she fell on her face.

1. past simple, past pefect
2. present perfect, past simple
3. past continuous, past simple
4. past perfect, past simple

Fill in the correct form:
After the car ________ (to hit) her, she still walked all the way to a hospital.

1. hit
2. was hitting
3. has hit
4. had hit

Fill in the correct forms:
While I _______ (to watch) TV, my mum ______ (to knit) a sweater.

1. watched, was knitting
2. was watching, knitted
3. was watching, was knitting
4. had watched, was knitting

Differentiation Assignment

The other assignments you'll be doing are ranked based on level of difficulty. By taking the following quiz (and by looking at how you did on the initial assignment), please determine whether you want to do the assignments on one of the following levels:

• PURPLE: I definitely need extra practice.
• BLUE: standard, my knowledge is okay but I would like to practise more.
• ORANGE: I'd like a challenge.

Let's try again!

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Past 

Simple

Past 

Continuous

Present Perfect

Past

Perfect

altijd, nooit, regelmatig

komt voor iets anders in vt

duurde even in vt

'aan het" doen

NU 'aan het" doen

gebeurde in vt, duidelijk wanneer

begonnen in vt, nu nog., weet niet wanneer.

I have jumped

I jumped

I jump, he jumps

I am jumping

I was jumping

I had jumped