EnglishQuick time check
Say Present Perfect or Past Simple as each card appears. ⚡
Time expression | Time expression | Time expression |
|---|---|---|
yesterday | today | in 2020 |
this week | last week | ever |
never | last summer | already |
yet | on Monday | this year |
What is different about the two groups?
Travel tense tools
Finished time → Past Simple | Unfinished time / experience → Present Perfect |
|---|---|
yesterday | today |
in 2020 | this week |
last week | this year |
on Monday | ever / never |
last summer | already / yet |
Tense | Form | Travel example |
|---|---|---|
Past Simple | subject + past form | We booked a hotel last week. |
Present Perfect | subject + have/has + past participle | We have booked a hotel this week. |
Base verb | Past form / past participle |
|---|---|
book | booked |
arrive | arrived |
fly | flown |
be | been |
see | seen |
check in | checked in |
Travel form practice
Choose the correct verb group
Connect each sentence with its missing form.
Connect each sentence with the correct form
- We ___ a room last Friday.
- booked
- I ___ never ___ in a five-star hotel.
- have / stayed
Continue with flight information
Connect each sentence with its missing form.
Connect each sentence with the correct form
- My flight ___ at 6 a.m. yesterday.
- arrived
- Our plane ___ already ___.
- has / landed
Complete the travel sentences
First decide: is the time finished or still open? Then say the complete sentence aloud. 🗣️
- I [___] Rome in 2022.
- We [___] yet.
- She [___] the hotel today.
- They [___] their flight last week.
- [___] a passport?
- It is 9 a.m.; I [___] the boarding gate this morning.
Travel stories: choose carefully
Read the airport updates
Decide whether each statement is correct.
Select the best form
Choose the correct tense for each travel situation.
- Yesterday, we [___] online for our flight.
- I [___] in a hotel with a rooftop pool.
- Our luggage [___] at the airport on Monday.
- They [___] the reservation email this week.
Check the travel facts
Decide if each sentence follows the time-reference rule.
Follow the hotel reservation
Decide if the grammar matches the time clue.
Your travel tense check
Choose Past Simple | Choose Present Perfect |
|---|---|
finished time: yesterday, last week, in 2020, on Monday, last summer | unfinished time: today, this week, this year, ever, never, already, yet |
Final travel check
Decide whether each completed sentence is correct.
One personal sentence
Say one true sentence about a trip, holiday, hotel, flight, passport, or luggage. Include one time expression.
