Worksheet: Tenses - Class 6 PDF Download

Present Tenses

I. Change the following as directed:
(a) Birds fly in the sky. (negative)
(b) Rohit loves his teacher. (interrogative)
(c) Boys are doing their homework. (negative)
(d) My friend speaks good English. (interrogative)
(e) Dogs are barking. (interrogative)
(f) He is learning music. (negative)
(g) We are going to Kolkata soon. (interrogative)
(h) Children play in the evening. (negative)
(i) Ritu sings a song. (negative)
(j) I am listening to western music. (interrogative)
(k) Naman and Chaman run fast. (interrogative)

II. Fill in the blanks with is, am or are:
(a) These bags ______ heavy.
(b) Look! There ______ Raman.
(c) My brother and I ______ good cricket players.
(d) The weather ______  nice today.
(e) This bag ______ not so heavy.
(f) I ______  not tired.
(g) Rama ______ at home.
(h) Her children ______ at school.
(i) I ______ a student.
(j) My sister ______ a doctor.

Present Continuous Tense

I. Complete the sentences. Use one of these verbs:

(a) Please be quiet. I ______
(b) Where is Umesh? He is in the kitchen. He ______
(c) ‘You ______ on my foot.’
(d) Look! Somebody ______ in the river.
(e) We’re here on holiday. We ______ at the Royal Hotel.
(f) Where’s Renu?  She ______ a shower.
(g) They ______ a new theatre in the city centre at the moment.
(h) I ______ now. Goodbye.
(i) The weather is nice at the moment. It is not ______
(j) You can turn off the television. I am not ______ it.

II. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form (Present Continuous) of the verbs given in bracket:
(a) I am ______ the table (turn).
(b) Hari is ______ the juice (suck).
(c) Rani and Rajan ______ under the cot (crawl).
(d) The dog is ______ its tail (wag).
(e) You are ______ on your paper (write).
(f) She is ______ right hand (wave).
(g) He is ______ over the fence (jump).
(h) You are ______ your books (take).
(i) You are ______ the sweets in your mouth (put).
(j) Sita is ______ on her dress (put).

Present Perfect Tense

Fill in the blanks with the Present Perfect tense form of the verbs given in the brackets: 
(a) The train ______  just now. (arrive)
(b) I ______ not ______ the cinema all these years. (visit)
(c) Someone ______ some crockery. (break)
(d) I ______ never ______ the Taj (see)
(e) I ______ not ______ him so far. (meet)
(f) I ______ not ______ the work even now. (finish)
(g) My friend ______ his purse, (lose)
(h) They ______ my pen. (take)
(i) Birds ______ from here, (fly)
(j) Rachna ______ food, (cook)

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

I. Fill in the blanks with the Present Perfect Continuous Tense of the verbs given in brackets:
(a) We ______  English for two years. (study)
(b) He ______  in this school for several years. (teach)
(c) I ______  in this flat since 2000. (live)
(d) It ______ for three hours. (rain)
(e) They ______ for seven hours. (work)

II. Fill in the blanks with since or for:
(a) He has been here ______  last Monday.
(b) She has been on the phone ______ twenty minutes.
(c) I have been in this town ______ 1967.
(d) You have been married ______ six years.
(e) Raman has been on holiday ______ last Friday.

Simple Past Tense

I. Make six sentences from the following chart:

II. Put in am / is/are (present) or was / were (past):
(a) Last year she ______ 10, so she ______ 11 now.
(b) I ______ hungry. Can I have something to eat?
(c) ‘Where ______ the children?’ ‘I don’t know. They ______ in the garden ten minutes ago.’
(d) Today the weather ______ nice, but yesterday it ______ very cold.
(e) I feel fine this morning but I ______ tired last night.
(f) Where ______ you at 11 o’clock last Friday morning?
(g) I like your new shirt ______ it expensive?
(h) Don’t they wear those shoes? These ______ very expensive.
(i) This time last year I ______ in Goa.
(j) They ______ in school today morning.

III. Complete the sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past simple:

(a) It was hot in the room, so I ______ the window.
(b) I ______ my teeth twice yesterday.
(c) The shop ______ at 9 a.in. yesterday.
(d) The match ______ at 6 in the evening.
(e) I always ______ to be a doctor.
(f) It is a nice day but yesterday it ______ all day.
(g) The accident ______ last Sunday afternoon.
(h) Shiela’s grandmother ______ when she was 90 years old.
(i) We ______ our holiday last year.
(j) We ______ at Grand Hotel when we went to Kolkata.

IV. Write the past simple of the following verbs:
(a) get
(b) see…
(c) play
(f) pay
(e) visit..
(f) buy
(g) go
(h) think
(i) copy
(j) know
(k) put…
(l) speak

Past Continuous Tense

Use the correct form of the verb:
(a) We (watch) the shop windows when we met Vimal.
(b) I (wait) outside the theatre when I saw Om.
(c) When Vijay arrived, Soma (study).
(d) When he saw Ramesh in the library, he (return) his books.
(e) When I saw them at midnight, they (try) to find a taxi.

Past Perfect Tense

Choose the correct verb from those given in brackets:
(a) He thanked me for what I ______ (have dope, had done, have been doing).
(b) When we went to the cinema, the film ______ (already started, had already started, would already start.)
(c) Did your think you ______ me somewhere before? (have seen, had seen, were seeing.)
(d) I ______ to Mumbai once before. (have gone, had gone, have been going)
(e) They    anything till night. (have not read, were not reading, had not read)

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Fill in the blanks with suitable verb:
(a) You had been ______ till now since morning, (slept, sleeping, sleep)
(b) She ______ sun-bath for a month, (have been taking, had taken, had been taking)
(c) I ______ this car for four years, (have driven, had driven, had been driving)
(d) He had not been ______ for a few days, (seen, saw, seeing)
(e) The players had been ______ for three hours, (running, ran, run)
(f) ______ he been studying for examination for four days? (had, have)
(g) Where had he been ______ for so many days? (lived, live, living)