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English test: Past Simple and Present Perfect

Test 1. Past Simple and Present Perfect

Complete the sentences with the correct future form. Don't use contractions. If after pushing the button "Check out", your answer is red, it means you make mistake. If you notice a mistake please write down below in the comments.

1.

I in sales. How about you?

Yes, I

2,

Ivan is my best employee. He here for almost ten years.

Really? I thought he last year!

3.

When your current job?

I in 2003.

4.

How long Fabio?

A long time. We in 1999, and we friends ever since.

5.

Leticia a promotion last week. She's a supervisor now.

That's great! She here for a long time. She deserves it.

6. I in the US since 2005. I working as soon as I arrived. My first job in a restaurant. I as a dishwasher. Then I another position as a server. I English in the evening, and I during the day. However, I to find a better job. I interested in working with children all my life. So, I to go back to school. I seven classes already and I hope to finish my degree next semester. I A's and B's in every class so far, I full time since I started school, but I as a teaching assistant for the past year . I love the work and can't wait to finish my degree!

 

Grammar:

  • Past Simple: regular verb+"ed"
    1. Use the simple past for actions, feelings, or situations that occurred at a specific time in the past. It's completed time (finished).
    2. Use with words such as yesterday, last week (day, etc),  a week ago, etc.
  • Present Perfect: "have/has"+Past Participle
    1. Use the present perfect for actions, feelings, or situations that occurred at an indefinite time in he past.
    2. Use with words such as FOR, SINCE, ever, never, just, already, yet, by, how long, for ages, long time, for years, etc.
    3. Action with words "time" (I have traveled to China 3 times)
    4. Without any time reference in the past.
    5. It's finished time, finished to the now.
    6. Use for habits, experience.
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