Tenses worksheet for class 10 CBSE

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate tense form.

Sandra Fisher, 53, ……………… (speaks / speak / is speaking) 42 languages. As well as …………….. (speak / speaking) her native German and English, she …………… (pick / picked / has picked) up the Italian and Greek …………. (speak / speaking / spoken) by immigrants in her home town; she also quickly ………….. (learn / has learned / learned) the Aboriginal language ……… (speak / spoken / speaking) by the Coorie children at her primary school. She can’t explain how she …………….. (manages / managed / is managing) to do this. She says that she only …………. (have / has / had) to listen for a few minutes before she ………….. (start / starts / started) speaking.

Solution

Sandra Fisher, 53, speaks 42 languages. As well as speaking her native German and English, she picked up the Italian and Greek spoken by immigrants in her home town; she also quickly learned the Aboriginal language spoken by the Coorie children at her primary school. She can’t explain how she manages to do this. She says that she only has to listen for a few minutes before she starts speaking.