Gap Fill (Write the correct verb form)
Fix the Mistake
Tense Detective
Creative Sentence Building
Rules
100

Little Red Riding Hood ______ (say) goodbye to her mother and ______ (set) off for her grandma’s house.

Little Red Riding Hood said goodbye to her mother and then she set off for her grandma’s house.

100

The wolf was eat Grandma when Red Riding Hood arrived.

  • The wolf was eating Grandma when Red Riding Hood arrived.


100

The wolf had eaten the grandmother.

PP

100
  • Little Red Riding Hood / meet / wolf / while / walk)


Little Red Riding Hood met the wolf while she was walking.

200

Jack ______ (cut) down the beanstalk while the giant ______ (sleep).

Jack cut down the beanstalk while the giant was sleeping.

200

The bears was going for a walk when Goldilocks arrived.

The bears were going for a walk when Goldilocks arrived.

200

The girl was walking through the woods.

PC

200

(Jack / not see / the giant / until / climb / top)

Jack had not seen the giant until he climbed to the top.

300

Goldilocks ______ (sleep) when the three bears ______ (find) her.

Goldilocks was sleeping when the three bears found her.

300

Cinderella has left her shoe on the stairs.

Cinderella had left her shoe on the stairs.

300

Jack climbed the beanstalk.

PS

300

Cinderella / cry / because / lose / slipper)

Cinderella was crying because she had lost her slipper.

300

We use the _____________ to describe an action that was in progress when a second event occurred.

Past Continuous

400

The Prince was only able to find Cinderella because she ______ (leave) her glass slipper behind.

The Prince was only able to find Cinderella because she had left her glass slipper behind.

400

The woodcutter had heard a scream while he chopped wood.

  1. The woodcutter heard a scream while he was chopping wood.

400

The pigs had built a strong brick house.

PP

400

The wolf / dress / Grandma’s clothes / before / girl / arrive

The wolf dressed in Grandma’s clothes before the girl arrived.

400

We use the ___________ when we are looking back from a point in the past to a situation or event that occurred before that point in time.

Past Perfect

500

The three little pigs all (hide) in the

brick house because the wolf

(blow) down the straw house and the wooden

house.

The three little pigs all hid in the brick house because the wolf blew down the other houses.

500

Goldilocks was sleeping when they found her.

PC / PS

500

The woodcutter / hear / scream / while / cut / wood)

The woodcutter heard the scream while he was cutting wood.

500

We use the _________to talk about a single action or event which occurred at a particular time in the past.

Past Simple