Exercise 5
Choose the 'Past Simple' or 'Present Perfect' of the verbs in brackets
1. Tom
2. Ouch! I
3. Jeremy
motor scooter.
4. The Beatles
1960s.
5. Martin
6. The Titanic
7. I
8. Somebody
home.
9.
Gerry
10. I
to give it up.
(break) his leg during his skiing trip in Austria.
(cut) my finger. It's bleeding.
(go) to school by bicycle before he bought his
(have) a string of number-one hits in the
(crash) his car again.
(sink) in 1912.
(see) the movie Avatar three times.
(steal) my bicycle! Now I'll have to walk
(graduate) from university last June.
(walk) to work every day for the last six weeks!
(smoke - not) for two weeks. He's trying
(live) in Cork for two years and then
11. My brother
12. I
(go) to Dublin.
13. Mister Pound is the bank manager. He
years.
14. Colln
15. I
works with IBM.
lives now.
(be) for five
(work) with Monsanto for five years, but now he
(see - not) him for three years. I wonder where he
16. Before going to Edinburgh, she
17.
fortnight.
(stay) with us for a
(watch you) TV lately?
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