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    This document provides a tense review exercise with 10 sentences to be completed in various tenses. It also provides a longer paragraph to be completed with the appropriate verbs and tenses. The paragraph tells a story about learning English and describes someone's experience studying English abroad after having struggled with the language for many years. They found immersing themselves in an English-speaking country for an extended period of time to be the key to making real progress in becoming fluent.

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    FCE Tense Review

    Complete the sentences.

    1. You look really great! ____________________(You/ exercise) at the fitness centre? 


    2. I _____________________ (have) the same car for more than ten years. I'm
    thinking about buying a new one. 
    3. Sam _______________________ (arrive) in San Diego a week ago. 
    4. It _____________________ (rain) all week. I hope it stops by Saturday because I
    want to go to the beach. 
    5. I have not travelled much yet; however, I __________________ (visit) the Grand
    Canyon and San Francisco by the time I left the United States. 
    6. I ______________________ (work) for this company for more than thirty years, and
    I intend to stay here until I retire! 
    7. Thomas is an author. He____________________ (write) since he was twenty-eight. 
    8. Altogether, he ________________________ (write) seven novels, three collections
    of short stories and a book of poetry. 
    9. By this time next summer, you ____________________ (complete) your studies. 
    10. They always do the same things. Tomorrow at this time, they _______________
    (do/ also) the same. 
    Complete the text below with the appropriate verbs and tenses.

    My English is really getting better. I_______________ to learn the language


    since 1985, but only recently have I been able to make some real progress. By
    the time I started high school in 1988, I _________________ the language for
    almost three years; however, I was only able to introduce myself and utter a few
    memorized sentences. For a couple more years, I_________________ through
    grammar and vocabulary lessons, which made absolutely no difference.
    Nothing worked, so I decided to study abroad. 

    I found an exchange program in England that sounded like the perfect answer. I
    ____________________with a host family for one month. It was a huge
    disappointment! I_________________  there the whole time staring at the host
    mother and father hoping that there would be some breakthrough. Nothing. 

    When I returned, I mentioned to a friend that I ______________ problems with


    the language for years. He recommended that I spend a year in an English
    speaking country. I decided to go abroad again. I _______________ exchange
    programs for a couple of weeks and finally decided on a school in the United
    States. 

    Well, it worked. I _________________________ and__________________  in


    the U.S. for more than two years. I ________________________here for at
    least another year before I return home. By then, I should be completely fluent.

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