Choose the right tenses

Choose the right tenses (present perfect, past or past perfect; simple or progressive).
• Going to the Pictures
That afternoon we all ……………………………(1 get) ready to go to the pictures. We ……………...………….(2 get) a 63 bus to take us to the Elephant and Castle, because the pictures are just next door. There……………… (3 be) a great big queue waiting to go in and we ……………………………………………….. (4 be) at the very back.Soon we ……………………………………………. (5 get) in. The picture …………………………………. (6 already start) and It was very dark in there, We had to go down some stairs to get to our seats but instead of walking down them we …………………………………………………………. (7.fall ) down them. Soon we were in our seats,We …………………………………………………….( 8 sit) there watching the rum when something ………………………………………………………………….…..(9 hit) me on the head.It was an ice-cream tub. I ……………………………………………………………… ( 10 turn) round to see who it was and a little boy who ……………………………………………………………….( 11 sit ) two rows behind me said, I am very sorry, it wasn't meant to hit you, It was meant to hit the boy in front'

Choose the right tenses

1 Choose the right tenses (present perfect, past or past perfect; simple or progressive).
( How works English page 172 – 173 )
1 Reports are coming in that a train …………………………………………….( crash ) near Birmingham. According to eyewitnesses, it ………………………………………………..(hit) a concrete block which somebody ……………………………………..…………(put) on the line.
2 Halfway lo the office Paul …………………………………….. ( turn) round and ………………………….{go) back home, because he ……………………………………………….(forget) to turn the gas off.
3 I …………………………(do) housework all day today. I …………………(clean) every room in the house.
4 I ………………………….(lie) in bed thinking about getting up when the doorbell ………………….(ring).
5 It wasn't surprising that she ………………………………………………………(start) gelling toothache. She………………………………………. (not go) to the dentist for two years.
6 I ……………………………………………………..(play) a lot of bridge recently.
7 When I ……………………………….(get) home everybody …………………………………( watch) TV.
8 We…………………………………………………………….. (not see ) your mother for ages.
9 How long ……………………………………………………………………….(you learn) English?
10 London …………………………….(change) a lot since we first ……………………………(come) lo live here.
11 'How many times ………………………. (you see) this film?' 'This is the first time I ………….……..(see) it.'
12 'Who's that?' 'I ……………………………………………….. (never see) him before in my life.'
13 I hear Joe ………………………………………………………….(set) married last summer.
14 I ………………………………………..(often wonder) where she ……………………….(get) her money.
15 ……………………………………………………………………..(You read) Pam .Marshall's latest book?
16 They …………………………….….(just discover) a new fuel - it's half the price of petrol, and much cleaner.
17 ……………………………………………………………………………….(You hear) the storm last night?
18 My sister …………………………………………………………….. ( be) married three times.
19 While she ……………………………………….(talk) on the phone the children ……………………..(start) lighting and …………………………………………………(break) a window.
20 He used to talk to us for hours about all the interesting things he …………………………..…..(do) in his life.
21 You know, she……………………………………... (stand) looking at that picture for-the last twenty minutes.
22 The old cross …………………………………….(stand) on top of the hill as long as anybody can remember.
23 I ………………………………….(spend) a lot of time travelling since I (get)……………………… this new job.
24 When I ……………………………………(be) at school we all …………………………………(study) Latin.
25 After he ……………………………(finish) breakfast he ………….…………(sit) down to write some letters.
26 When I ( meet)………………………………… him he (work)………………………… as a waiter for a year or so.
27 I ………………………………………………………………… (never learn) to ski.
28 ……………………………………………………………………. (you finish) with the bathroom yet?
29 We ………………………………….. (live) in Scotland until I ….……………………………..(be) eighteen.
30 She ………………………………………………………(have) a hard life, but she's always smiling.