Skills practice questions.

Choose the correct present simple sentence to describe a daily routine.

• She is catching the 8 o'clock train every morning.
• She catches the 8 o'clock train every morning.
• She catch the 8 o'clock train every morning.
• She catching the 8 o'clock train every morning.

Answer: She catches the 8 o'clock train every morning.

Use the present simple for habits and routines. Add -es to the verb after he/she/it: catch becomes catches.

Which sentence correctly uses the past simple?

• We have visited Rome last summer.
• We visited Rome last summer.
• We were visiting Rome last summer.
• We are visiting Rome last summer.

Answer: We visited Rome last summer.

Use the past simple with a finished time expression such as 'last summer'. The present perfect cannot be used with a specific past time.

Choose the present perfect continuous sentence that emphasises a recent, ongoing activity.

• She has been studying English for three years.
• She studied English for three years.
• She is studying English for three years.
• She is studying English since three years.

Answer: She has been studying English for three years.

The present perfect continuous (has/have been + -ing) links a past starting point to now and stresses the duration of the activity.

You have made a spontaneous decision. Which future form is most natural? 'The bag looks heavy. ___ you.'

• I am going to help
• I help
• I'll help
• I will helping you

Answer: I'll help

Use 'will' for instant, spontaneous decisions made at the moment of speaking. 'Going to' is for plans decided earlier.

Which sentence uses 'going to' correctly for a prior plan?

• I think it will to snow tomorrow.
• We are going to paint the kitchen this weekend.
• We go to paint the kitchen this weekend.
• We will going to paint the kitchen this weekend.

Answer: We are going to paint the kitchen this weekend.

'Be going to + infinitive' expresses a plan or intention decided before the moment of speaking.

Choose the correct first conditional sentence.

• If you will study hard, you pass the exam.
• If you study hard, you will pass the exam.
• If you studied hard, you will pass the exam.
• If you would study hard, you will pass the exam.

Answer: If you study hard, you will pass the exam.

First conditional: if + present simple, will + infinitive. Do not use 'will' in the if-clause.