Year 4 English — Simple past, present and future
Recognise and form the simple present, simple past and simple future of a verb.
Name: ________________________
1.Sort each sentence by its tense.
Groups: Simple present · Simple past · Simple future
- She walks to school every day.
- She walked to school yesterday.
- She will walk to school tomorrow.
- They will play cricket next Sunday.
- They played cricket last Sunday.
- They play cricket on Sundays.
2.Last night we ____ a film at home.
- a) will watch
- b) watch
- c) watched
- d) watches
3.Every morning Ravi ____ a glass of milk.
- a) drinking
- b) drank
- c) will drink
- d) drinks
4.Complete with the simple past of "go": Yesterday she ____ to the library.
5.Complete with the simple past of "buy": Last month my father ____ a new bicycle.
6.Match each verb to its simple past form.
- teach
- catch
- think
- bring
- speak
- write
- spoke
- taught
- thought
- caught
- wrote
- brought
7.Which sentence is in the simple future?
- a) I will eat rice.
- b) I am eating rice.
- c) I ate rice.
- d) I eat rice.
8.Rani ____ her homework every evening.
- a) do
- b) does
- c) did
- d) will do
Answer key — Year 4 English — Simple past, present and future
- 1. She walks to school every day. → Simple present; She walked to school yesterday. → Simple past; She will walk to school tomorrow. → Simple future; They play cricket on Sundays. → Simple present; They played cricket last Sunday. → Simple past; They will play cricket next Sunday. → Simple future
- 2. c) watched
- 3. d) drinks
- 4. went
- 5. bought
- 6. teach → taught; catch → caught; think → thought; bring → brought; speak → spoke; write → wrote
- 7. a) I will eat rice.
- 8. b) does