GRAMMAR FOR CAMBRIDGE FIRST - IDENTIFYING TENSES 2

Identifying Tenses 2

Match the sentences on the left with the words/phrases on the right. The tiles in the right-hand column are sortable. ANSWERS

They will have arrived in Switzerland _ _ _ _ _ .
Hubert didn’t want to go to the cinema because he had _ _ _ _ _ seen the film.
She has worked for two different companies since she graduated _ _ _ _ _ .
My son is _ _ _ _ _ nagging me to buy him new computer games.
I had been living in that small town _ _ _ _ _ before I moved to Hamburg.
I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch _ _ _ _ _ but I’ve been working long hours.
Will Susan be giving a lecture on human rights _ _ _ _ _ ?
He is spending this weekend in Brighton. He goes there nearly _ _ _ _ _ .
Arnold won’t have been going to work _ _ _ _ _ .
The children were watching TV _ _ _ _ _ the parents were cooking dinner.

1)	Future Perfect Simple	WILL + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE + BY THIS TIME TOMORROW
2)	Past Perfect Simple	HAD + ALREADY + PAST PARTICIPLE
3)	Past Simple	VERB (ED/V2) + THREE YEARS AGO
4)	Present Continuous	IS + CONSTANTLY + ING FORM
5)	Past Perfect Continuous	HAD + BEEN + ING FORM + FOR THREE YEARS
6)	Present Perfect Simple	HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE + LATELY
7)	Future Continuous	WILL + BE + ING FORM + NEXT WEDNESDAY AT 10.00
8)	Present Simple	SUBJECT + VERB + EVERY MONTH
9)	Future Perfect Continuous	WILL + HAVE + BEEN + ING FORM + FOR A WEEK BY FRIDAY
10)	Past Continuous	WHILE + WERE + ING FORM