Remedial Activities
(1st bimester)
VERB TENSE:
PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE
A) Fill in the blanks
The present perfect tense looks in the present at actions completed in the past.
He’s cleaned the car.
She’s finished her
homework.
They’ve eaten a Chinese
meal.
What have they done?
has
What ___________
he done?
They’ve seen
__________________
a film (see).
He’s washed the dishes. (wash)
________________
has
What _________
she done?
he (it) done?
What’s __________
She’s written
_______________
a letter. (write)
He’s (It’s) drunk the milk. (drink)
________________
What’s he done?
What have they done?
He’s cleaned the windows. (clean)
_________________
They’ve broken the window! (break)
________________
B) Supply the present perfect tense form of the verbs in
parentheses.
have spoken
1) I ______________
(speak) to him about it several times.
’ve finished
2) We _____________
(finish) all our homework.
3) He ____________
(visit) us many times.
’s visited
4) She _____________
(return) my book at last.
’s returned
lost
5) I am afraid that I’ ’ve
______________
(lose) my car keys.
6) We ___________
(be) to Mexico many times.
’ve been
7) I ___________
’ve studied (study) this same exercise before.
8) We ______________
(learn) many new words in this course.
’ve learned
’ve told
9) I ______________
(tell) John what you said.
10) I ____________
(hear) that story before.
’ve heard
11) We ____________
(lend) money to them several times.
’ve lent
12) Mr. Smith ___________
(go) to South America to work. He’ll be back in
has gone
two weeks.
’s made
13) He ___________
(make) that same mistake several times.
14) She ___________
(see) that movie three times.
’s seen
lost
15) He _____________
(make) and ________
(lose) several fortunes.
’s made
C) Complete the sentences with a verb from the list. Use the
present perfect (have / has + the past participle of the verb).
break
buy
lose
finish
paint
do
go
read
go
take
have finished
1) Are they still having dinner? ‘No, they _______________.
2) I ’ve
_______________
some new shoes. Do you want to see them?
bought
’s gone
3) Is Tom here? ‘No he _______________
to work.
4) _________
you _____________the
shopping?’ ‘No , I’m going to do it later.
Have
done
’ve lost
5) Where’s your key?’ ‘I don’t know. I ___________
it’.
has broken
6) Look! Somebody __________________
that window.
Have
painted
7) Your house looks different. _________
you ________it?
has taken
8) I can’t find my umbrella. Somebody _______________it.
9) I’m looking for Sarah. Where ________
she ___________?
has
gone
10) Do you want the newspaper?’
’ve read
‘No, thanks. I __________it.
D) Are these contractions is or has?
 1) He’s tired
6) She’s worried.
(= is)
 2) She’s arrived. (= has)
7) He’s left the country.
(= has)
 3) It’s escaped.
(= has)
8) She’s stopped working. (= has)
 4) She’s ill.
(= is)
9) He’s had a cold.
 5) He’s eaten.
(= has)
10) It’s died.
( = is)
(= has)
(= has)
E) In the following sentences, supply either the past
tense or the present perfect tense of the verbs in
parentheses.
’ve visited
1) I ___________
(visit) Chicago many times.
2) Mr. Smith __________
(go) to Chicago last week.
went
’ve read (read) that book several times.
3) I _________
read
4) I first ___________
(read) it while I was on my vacation last summer.
’ve been
5) I ___________
(be) to Philadelphia many times.
6) Mr. Smith _________
(have) little experience in teaching that subject.
’s had
7) John _______
(fall) as he was crossing the street.
fell
8) I _______
(see) Mary a few days ago.
saw
9) When the bell rang, John __________
(jump) from his seat and
jumped
_________
(run) from the room.
ran
10) I __________
(try) that restaurant again and again but I do not like the
’ve tried
food there.
11) When I was a boy, I often __________
(go) fishing with my father.
went
’ve completed
12) I _______________
(complete) writing my exercise at last.
13) He __________
(start) to study English last winter.
started
had
14) The day before yesterday, we _______
(have) a bad storm.
’ve given
15) I hear that you __________
(give) up the idea of studying Russian.
’ve
been
16) I _____
never _________
(be) at Radio City.
was
17) It _________
(be) very cold yesterday.
18) We _____________
(learn) many new words in this course.
’ve learned
19) The First World War ____________
(begin) in 1914 and
began
ended
______________
(end) in 1918.
20) She says that she ____________
(lose) her pocketbook.
’s lost
F) Fill in: has – have been in / to, has – have gone to.
Gina:
Hello Paul. Are you enjoying yourself in Rome?
Paul:
Oh, yes.
Gina:
Which places 1.
Paul:
’ve been in Rome for two weeks now so I 3. ____________
’ve been to
Well, I 2. ____________
have
you
been to
since you arrived?
a lot of places, like the Colosseum, some museums and the Vatican.
Gina:
Where are your friends today?
Paul:
Mark and Jim 4. _______________
a travel agent’s to buy tickets for the
have gone to
’s been in
plane and they haven’t come back yet. Mark says he 5. ___________
’s been to
Rome too long. He 6. ______________
Capri before but Jim and Sean 7.
_______________
haven’t been to (not) any islands, so I think we will go to Sardinia.
has gone to
Sean 8. _______________
the hotel to sleep.
Gina:
Well, I’m leaving now. My parents 9. _____________
have gone to the hospital to see
my uncle. He 10. _______________
hospital for a week. See you later!
’s been in
G) Fill in the blanks with time adverbs or expressions
from the list below:
 so far, how long, just, for, since, since, how long ago, yet,
this week, ago, just now, already
1. They got married a month
ago
.
yet
2. He hasn’t called us ____________.
for
3. I’ve had this car ____________
a year.
already
4. He has ____________
left.
so far
5. She’s typed three letters ___________.
just
6. She’s ________
cooked dinner.
7. _____________
have you been in Rome?
How long
just now
8. The boss came ___________.
this week
9. Carol has been to the cinema twice ____________.
How long ago did he move house?
10. ______________
since
11. I’ve studied Maths _________
1991.
12. Peter has been here __________
5 o’clock.
since