Present Perfect vs Past Simple — practice exercises
Interactive fill-in-the-blank, sentence-building, word-sorting, and error-correction exercises with instant feedback.
6 exercises
StartPresent Perfect vs Past Simple - Life Achievements
Fill in the blankFill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in either the Present Perfect or Past Simple. Use the Present Perfect to talk about life experiences or things that have happened at an unspecified time. Use the Past Simple for actions that happened at a specific time in the past. Click on each blank and choose the correct answer from the dropdown.
StartPresent Perfect vs Past Simple - Travel Adventures
Fill in the blankFill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in either the Present Perfect or Past Simple. Use the Present Perfect to talk about travel experiences in your life, and use the Past Simple for trips or events that happened at a specific time in the past. Click on each blank and choose the correct answer from the dropdown.
StartBuild Present Links and Finished Events
Build the sentenceTap the words in the correct order to build each sentence or question. Contrast experience, present results, and unfinished time with specific finished events. One word does not belong.
StartBuild Conversations and Recent Events
Build the sentenceTap the words in the correct order to build each conversation or sentence. Use time adverbs, questions, negatives, and short answers with the tense that matches the speaker’s focus. One word does not belong.
StartPresent Perfect or Past Simple – Sort the Time Clues
Sort into columnsTap a tile, then tap the column it belongs in. Every tile must be placed, and each board practises a different part of this lesson.
StartPresent Perfect vs Past Simple - Find and Fix
Find the mistakeOne word in each sentence is wrong. Tap it, then choose the correction.
Put Present Perfect vs Past Simple into practice with 6 interactive fill-in-the-blank, sentence-building, word-sorting, and error-correction exercises at B1 (Intermediate) level. Every question is checked instantly, so you can catch mistakes, see the correct answer in context, and build confidence using Present Perfect vs Past Simple in real English sentences.
Work through the exercises above in order or jump straight to the one you want. You can retry any exercise as many times as you like, and your score updates as you go. When you want to review the rules first, head back to the Present Perfect vs Past Simple lesson.
- Fill-in-the-blank questions with multiple-choice answers
- Sentence-building questions: tap the words into the correct order
- Word-sorting questions: tap each word into the column it belongs in
- Error-correction questions: spot the wrong word, then choose the fix
- Instant feedback and scoring on every attempt
- Unlimited retries to reinforce Present Perfect vs Past Simple
- Suitable for B1-level English learners