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Simple Present or Present Continuous?

Type the correct form of each verb.

Next week, my friends and I (go) camping in the woods. I (organize)


the food, because I (like) cooking. Dave (have) a big car with a trailer, so
he (plan) the transportation. Sam (bring) the tent -- he (go)
camping every year, so he (have) a great tent and lots of other equipment. My wife
(think) we're crazy. She (like) holidays in comfortable hotels, so she
(take) a trip to Paris instead.

Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs)


1 show showied showed showwed

2 permit permitied permited permitted

3 bathe bathied bathed bathhed

4 rely relied relyed rellyed

5 play plaied played playyed

6 fail failied failed failled

7 trap trapied traped trapped

8 marry married marryed marryyed

9 share sharied shared sharred

10 depart departied departed departted


My grandfather had a very exciting life. When he was young, he (live) on a farm in
the country. His parents (raise) cattle, and he (look) after the cows. When he
was eighteen, he went to university, where he (study) Philosophy. He also
(play) the trumpet in a jazz band. When the war started, he (try) to join the Air
Force, but he (end) up in the Navy. In the Atlantic, a German torpedo (rip) a
hole in the side of his ship, and the ship sank. Only five men (escape). They
(sail) in a lifeboat back to England. Then he met my grandmother, and they (marry)
after only three weeks. He says now that he (want) to marry her very quickly in case
he (die) in the war.

Forming the Past Tense (Irregular Verbs)


1 catch
catched
catch
caught

2 get
got
get
gought

3 fit
fit
fought
fat

4 set
set
sat
sought

5 drink
drink
drank
drunk

6 have
have
hove
had

7 bring
brought
bringed
brang

8 cut
cutted
caught
cut

9 find
found
fand
find

10 teach
teach
teached
taught

Emily Carr, British Columbia's most famous artist, (be) born in 1871. Her parents
(die) when she was still a teenager. She (study) art in San Francisco and
Paris, but when she (come) back to Victoria, she (keep) a house called
"The House of All Sorts", where she (be) the landlady. Many years later, she
(begin) painting again. To find subjects for her paintings, she (take) trips
into the forests of British Columbia, and she often (meet) with the First Nations
people and (paint) them too. Emily Carr also (write) several books, and she
(win) the Governor General's Award for one of them.

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