Intermediate resources

Mixed English Verb Tenses

Intermediate-level practice of English verb tenses. Complete the story by entering the missing words.

Yesterday, I two Italian students in a street near Churchill Square. Their names Sara and Diletta.

"Where you been?" I asked them.

"We just from the cinema."

"And where you now?"

"We are going to the Italian restaurant in Madeira Place."

" you mean the one I told you about in class the other day?"

"Yes, that's the one we mean. Would you to come with us?"

"Well actually, I going dancing with Yu-Lan and Hsiu-Feng. They dancing every Wednesday in Kemp Town."

"But where are your Taiwanese friends, Ted? We see them."

"No, you can't see them they are invisible. Nail them with invisible paint nobody can see them, I know that they are here. They are right next to me!"

"We think you lying, Ted. We think that you like Italian food that is why you want to come with us."

"I never any lies before in my life. Actually, I love Italian , especially pizza with mozzarella cheese. I eaten any Italian food recently I would really love to join you, if I with you, can I Yu-Lan and Hsiu-Feng? We will only need a table for three they are both invisible."

"But we will have to order for five people. If we so much food, the waiter think that we are very greedy."

"But all Italian people good appetites your food is famous for its lovely flavour."

"That's true, but where Yu-Lan and Hsiu-Feng sit if we only a table for three?"

"That's easy. Yu-Lan sit under the table and Hsiu-Feng can hang from the ceiling. They be very comfortable, but it will be easy for us to give them food. Have ever dinner with two invisible people before?"

"A long time ago, we Italian wine with the ghosts of Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, but we never at the dinner table with two invisible Taiwanese students."

"Look! There's Nail in his new Rolls Royce and two students are in the back. Their names Faruk and Ayse."

"Who's the Swiss student in the car behind? I think she driving very dangerously. I think she going crash into the back of Nail's new car."

"Don't worry! She a good driver. She from Zurich!"

Answers

  1. am
  2. and
  3. and
  4. are
  5. are
  6. are
  7. because
  8. because
  9. but
  10. but
  11. can't
  12. come
  13. come
  14. comes
  15. Do
  16. don't
  17. don't
  18. drank
  19. food
  20. go
  21. going
  22. had
  23. have
  24. have
  25. have
  26. have
  27. have
  28. have
  29. haven't
  30. invite
  31. is
  32. is
  33. is
  34. like
  35. met
  36. order
  37. painted
  38. sat
  39. sitting
  40. sitting
  41. so
  42. so
  43. to
  44. told
  45. were
  46. will
  47. will
  48. will
  49. won't
  50. you