Year 7 English — Simple past, present and future
Recognise and form the simple present, simple past and simple future of a verb.
Name: ________________________
1.Complete with the simple future of "help": They ____ us tomorrow.
2.Last night we ____ a film at home.
- a) watched
- b) will watch
- c) watch
- d) watches
3.Sort each sentence by its tense.
Groups: Simple present · Simple past · Simple future
- They will play cricket next Sunday.
- She will walk to school tomorrow.
- They play cricket on Sundays.
- She walks to school every day.
- They played cricket last Sunday.
- She walked to school yesterday.
4.Match each verb to its simple past form.
- teach
- catch
- think
- bring
- speak
- write
- brought
- thought
- spoke
- taught
- caught
- wrote
5.Sort each verb form by its tense.
Groups: Simple present · Simple past
- saw
- took
- ran
- eats
- sees
- runs
- takes
- ate
6.Put the parts in order to make one correct sentence.
- visited
- last Sunday.
- We
- our grandparents
7.I think it ____ tomorrow, so carry an umbrella.
- a) rains
- b) raining
- c) rained
- d) will rain
8.Complete with the simple past of "buy": Last month my father ____ a new bicycle.
Answer key — Year 7 English — Simple past, present and future
- 1. will help
- 2. a) watched
- 3. 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
- 4. teach → taught; catch → caught; think → thought; bring → brought; speak → spoke; write → wrote
- 5. eats → Simple present; ate → Simple past; runs → Simple present; ran → Simple past; sees → Simple present; saw → Simple past; takes → Simple present; took → Simple past
- 6. 1. We 2. visited 3. our grandparents 4. last Sunday.
- 7. d) will rain
- 8. bought