Year 7 English — Continuous and perfect tenses
Recognise and form the present continuous, past continuous and present perfect.
Name: ________________________
1.Look at the sky — it ____ heavily right now.
- a) rains
- b) rained
- c) is raining
- d) has rained
2.Sort each sentence by its tense.
Groups: Present continuous · Past continuous · Present perfect
- She has read the book.
- They were playing when it rained.
- They are playing outside.
- She is reading a book.
- They have played three matches.
- She was reading when I called.
3.Put the parts in order to make one correct sentence.
- the letter.
- have
- posted
- already
- I
4.Complete with the present perfect of "see": I ____ that film twice.
5.We ____ each other for ten years, and we are still friends.
- a) know
- b) have known
- c) knew
- d) are knowing
6.Meera ____ in this town since 2018.
- a) is living
- b) lived
- c) lives
- d) has lived
7.Match each verb form to the name of its tense.
- is writing
- was writing
- has written
- writes
- wrote
- will write
- simple present
- simple past
- past continuous
- simple future
- present perfect
- present continuous
8.Complete with the past continuous of "cook": Mother ____ dinner when the guests arrived.
Answer key — Year 7 English — Continuous and perfect tenses
- 1. c) is raining
- 2. She is reading a book. → Present continuous; She was reading when I called. → Past continuous; She has read the book. → Present perfect; They are playing outside. → Present continuous; They were playing when it rained. → Past continuous; They have played three matches. → Present perfect
- 3. 1. I 2. have 3. already 4. posted 5. the letter.
- 4. have seen
- 5. b) have known
- 6. d) has lived
- 7. is writing → present continuous; was writing → past continuous; has written → present perfect; writes → simple present; wrote → simple past; will write → simple future
- 8. was cooking