Exercise 4. Past simple or present perfect? Put the verb in brackets into the correct form.

1. They (clean) _________________ the beach one week ago.
2. They (collect) _________________ hundreds of books so far.
3. I (collect) _________________ stamps when I was a child.
4. She (fly) ________________ to Da Nang many times but last year she (go) _________________ there by train.
5. _________________ you ever (see) _________________ a real lion? No, but I (see) ________________a real elephant when we went to the zoo last month.

Exercise 5. Fill in the blanks with a right form of the verbs in the box.

sleep     study     go     write     cook     spend     want     ring

1. She ____________________ out with her boyfriend last night.
2. Laura ____________________ a meal yesterday afternoon.
3. Mozart ____________________ more than 600 pieces of music.
4. I ____________________ tired when I came home.
5. The bed was very comfortable so they ____________________ very well.
6. Jamie passed the exam because he ____________________ very hard.
7. My father ____________________ the teenagers to drive when he was alive.
8. Dave ____________________ to make a fire but there was no wood.
9. The little boy ____________________ hours in his room making his toys.
10. The telephone ____________________ several times and then stopped before I could answer it.