present perfect or past simple
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Present Perfect or Past SimpleTRANSCRIPT
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE PRESENT PERFECT OR THE PAST SIMPLE OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS. MATCH THE SENTENCES WITH THE PICTURES.1. Last week she _______ (paint) the walls of her house.2. He _______ (just/ hurt) his back as the box was too heavy.3. He got seriously hurt. The kidnappers _______ (tie) him with a rope to a chair. 4. ‘Where’s Tony?’ ‘I _______ (just/ see) him playing with his toy truck.’5. He _______ (never/ gamble) in his life, but this week he _______ (be) to the casino twice.6. I _______ (see) my father reading the newspaper a few minutes ago.7. He _______ (work) really hard for that company and then he _______ (leave).8. He’s very strange! He _______ (have) lunch outside against a fire extinguisher almost every day this week.9. Yesterday the teacher _______ (tell) him to solve a Maths equation on the board, but he _______ (not/ can) solve it.10. She _______ (do) her hair too many times this month.11. The librarians _______ (already/ put) all the books on the shelves.12. After the boy _______ (get) hurt, the nurse _______ (put) a bandage on his arm.13. They _______ (play) baseball for hours.14. She has difficulty in doing aerobics but she _______ (improve) a lot since she first began.15. He _______ (spend) the whole day skating until his mother _______ (call) him for dinner.16. My grandmother _______ (just/ make) a quilt to put on her bed.17. He works in the sewers. He _______ (walk) through dark tunnels many times.18. The chef _______ (find) the cook smoking in the kitchen two days ago.19. Since his father bought the dogs, the boy _______ (take) good care of them.20. He _______ (go) camping to the mountains yesterday.