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Grammar: present, past and perfect tenses

42 marks. Use Practice to check each answer as you go, or Exam to answer everything first. Section A has 12 multiple-choice questions (A, B or C). Section B has structured questions in the style of Paper 1 Part 2 and Paper 2: error correction, choosing and writing verb forms, a timeline and a short story.

Section A: multiple choice

12 marks
Read each sentence or short text. Choose the best answer A, B or C.
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Question 1

Water ______ at 100 °C.
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B
A scientific fact uses the present simple. Water is the subject (it), so boils.
For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard 2.1 Present simple: facts
Textbook p. 161
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Question 2

Who is that girl? I ______ her name.
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A
Remember is a stative verb (state of mind), so it is used in the present simple: I don't remember. "Am not remember" is also wrong because am cannot go with a base verb.
For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard 2.1 Stative verbs
Textbook p. 161
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Question 3

Text message
Hi Hana, sorry, I can't come to the match on Saturday. My cousin is staying with us this weekend and Mum wants me to show him around.
Zul
From the message, we know that Zul's cousin
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C
"Is staying ... this weekend" is a temporary situation (present continuous). A and B are permanent states, which would be "lives" and "has moved".
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard 2.1 Present continuous: temporary situations
Textbook p. 161
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Question 4

We ______ dinner when the doorbell rang.
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A
Having dinner was in progress when another action (the bell rang) interrupted it, so past continuous: were having.
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard 2.2 Past continuous: an interrupted action
Textbook p. 163
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Question 5

Sorry I did not answer your call. At 8 p.m. last night I ______ my homework.
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C
An action in progress at a specific time in the past (8 p.m. last night) uses the past continuous: was doing. Finished would mean the homework was complete.
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard 2.2 Past continuous: a specific time
Textbook p. 163
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Question 6

Which sentence means that Ali does not play football now?
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B
Used to + base verb is a past habit that is not true now. A means playing football is familiar to him now; C means it is becoming familiar.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard 2.3 Used to
Textbook p. 163
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Question 7

I have lived in a hot country all my life, so I ______ the heat.
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C
Be used to + noun means the heat is familiar to me now. Used to and would are about the past and need a verb after them, not a noun.
For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard 2.3 Be used to
Textbook p. 163
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Question 8

Which sentence is correct?
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B
Ago gives a finished time, so the past simple is used: He went. The present perfect cannot be used with ago.
For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard 2.4 Present perfect simple and past simple (ago)
Textbook p. 164
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Question 9

The dodo bird has been extinct ______ 1681.
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A
1681 is a point in time, so since. For is used with a length of time (about 50 years). Ago goes with the past simple.
For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard 2.4 For, since and ago
Textbook p. 164
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Question 10

Text message
Dina: Sorry, I'm late! I have been waiting for the bus for 40 minutes and it still hasn't come.
What is true?
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B
The present perfect continuous with for + a length of time says how long an action has been in progress up to now. "It still hasn't come" shows she is still waiting.
For the teacher: Analysing, medium difficulty, standard 2.4 Present perfect continuous: how long
Textbook p. 164
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Question 11

Which sentence shows that Zack finished his homework before his friend called?
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C
Had done (past perfect simple) is an action finished before another past action. A shows homework in progress at the time of the call. B means he did it after the call (the call was the reason).
For the teacher: Analysing, high difficulty, standard 2.5 Past perfect simple: the earlier action
Textbook p. 167
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Question 12

A pupil wrote: "The hikers collapsed because they walked for days." Which is the best correction?
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A
The long action (walking for days) went on before the collapse and caused it, so the past perfect continuous: had been walking. B and C use present tenses in a past story.
For the teacher: Evaluating, medium difficulty, standard 2.5 Past perfect continuous
Textbook p. 168

Section B: structured questions

30 marks
Answer all questions. Write the answer in the space, or choose the answer.
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Question 13

Read the text. Each underlined word is wrong. Write the correct word for each.
A night with the fireflies
Last Saturday, my family (1) go to Kuala Selangor to see the fireflies. We (2) was sitting in a small boat when the first lights appeared in the trees. My little sister had never (3) see anything so beautiful. Our guide told us that the fireflies (4) has lived on that river for hundreds of years. By the time we got back to the jetty, it (5) were already midnight. We were all very sleepy because we (6) have been up since five o'clock that morning.
[1 mark] (1)go
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[1 mark] (2)was
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[1 mark] (3)see
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[1 mark] (4)has
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[1 mark] (5)were
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[1 mark] (6)have
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For the teacher: Analysing, low difficulty, standard Paper 1 Part 2: error correction (tenses and agreement)
Textbook p. 92
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Question 14

Choose the correct form to complete each sentence.
[1 mark] (a)Listen! The school band ______ our school song.
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is playing
"Listen!" signals an action in progress now.
[1 mark] (b)Look at Susan's smile! She ______ a great time at her cousin's house.
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is having
Have meaning experience is an action verb, so it can be continuous. "Look!" shows it is happening now. Have meaning own would stay simple.
[1 mark] (c)I ______ you are right about the answer.
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think
Think = have an opinion is stative, so present simple.
[1 mark] (d)The train to Ipoh ______ at 9.15 every morning.
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leaves
A timetabled, regular event uses the present simple.
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard 2.1 Present simple or present continuous
Textbook p. 161
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Question 15

Write the correct form of the verb in brackets.
[1 mark] (a)Hanis ______ (cycle) to school when she saw an accident.
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[1 mark] (b)My grandmother ______ (tell) us a story every night when we were small. (Use used to or would.)
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[1 mark] (c)At first the noise bothered me, but I soon ______ (get) used to it.
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[1 mark] (d)What ______ you ______ (do) at 9 p.m. last night?
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For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard 2.2 and 2.3 Past tenses and used to
Textbook p. 163
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Question 16

Write the correct form of the verb in brackets: the present perfect simple, the present perfect continuous or the past simple.
[1 mark] (a)The scientist ______ (study) coral reefs for twenty years and she is still studying them.
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[1 mark] (b)My cousin ______ (visit) Sabah three times.
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[1 mark] (c)Lena ______ (join) the school choir two years ago.
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[1 mark] (d)My eyes hurt because I ______ (read) since breakfast.
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For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard 2.4 Present perfect simple, continuous and past simple
Textbook p. 164
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Question 17

Look at the timelines.
Four timelines. Waiting from 7.10 to 7.40 when the bus arrives. The bus left at 7.10 and Farid arrived at 7.20. Studying from 2.00 p.m. until now, 5.00 p.m. Cooking from 6.00 to 6.45 and the phone rang at 6.30.
Timelines
[1 mark] (a)How many minutes had Hana been waiting when the bus arrived?
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[1 mark] (b)How many minutes before Farid arrived had the bus left?
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[1 mark] (c)Lin has been studying since 2.00 p.m. For how many hours has she been studying at 5.00 p.m.?
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[1 mark] (d)Mum was cooking when the phone rang. Name the tense of was cooking and say why it is used.
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For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard 2.4 and 2.5 Reading a timeline
Textbook p. 167
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Question 18

Danial wrote three sentences in his story about his childhood. Each has one tense mistake.
Danial's sentences
(1) I would be very shy when I was a child.
(2) I have moved to Selangor in 2019.
(3) I have been knowing my best friend since Form 1.
[1 mark] (a)Write sentence (1) correctly.
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[1 mark] (b)Write sentence (2) correctly.
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[1 mark] (c)Write sentence (3) correctly.
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[1 mark] (d)Explain why would cannot be used in sentence (1).
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For the teacher: Evaluating, medium difficulty, standard 2.3 to 2.5 Error analysis
Textbook p. 164
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Question 19

Write the start of a story. It begins: Nobody knew where they were. Write four sentences (about 40 words) and use one example each of the past continuous, the past simple and the past perfect.
[4 marks] (a)Your four sentences
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Nobody knew where they were. It was raining and the mist was falling over the trees. They walked for an hour and then stopped at a stream. They had lost the map when they crossed the river.
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For the teacher: Creating, high difficulty, standard 2.6 Narrative tenses (writing)
Textbook p. 92