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Present Simple vs Present Continuous

PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS

1.      Write the correct questions for the answers:

a)                  ______________________________________? I brush my teeth twice a day.

b)                  ______________________________________? She drives to work four times a week.

c)                  ______________________________________?  Because she doesn’t like them.

d)                  ______________________________________? No, they don’t.

e)                  ______________________________________? We’re cooking dinner.

f)                    ______________________________________? She’s talking to her friend.

g)                  ______________________________________? No, I’m not using the pc.

h)                  ______________________________________?  They never go to sleep at 9 o’clock.

2.      Write the verbs in the present Simple or Present Continuous:

From October to June I ______________ (study) at university, but it’s August now and I ______________ (live) with my family in Boston and I ______________ (work) as an au pair.  I normally ______________ cook lunch and ______________ (play) with the children when they ______________ (come) from day care. I ______________ (work) at weekends, but I have some free time during the week.

3.      Write the verbs in the present Simple or Present Continuous:

I______________ (work) as an architect for a British company. We ______________ (do) lots of work in England but sometimes ______________ (travel) to other European countries too. At the moment we ______________  (design) a shopping centre and I ______________ (work) ten to eleven hours a day but it’s ok because I ______________ a holiday next month.

4.      Write the verbs in the spaces:

HAVE (X2) – LISTEN TO – ORDER – PLAY – PHONE – READ – STUDY – WATCH – WRITE.

a)      ______________ an email.

b)      ______________ a cup of tea.

c)      ______________ a newspaper.

d)      ______________ a takeaway pizza.

e)      ______________ the radio.

f)        ______________ a friend.

g)      ______________ English.

h)      ______________ computer games.

i)        ______________ TV.

j)        ______________ dinner.

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8. Match a verb and a noun phrase:

Present Simple or Present Continuous?

1.      Andy left school last year and is going to study French at university in six months’ time. But right now, he’s working as a diving instructor in the Caribbean. He went to the Caribbean in November. Now it’s April. He’s coming home at the end of May.

2.      Put the verbs in brackets in the Present Simple or Present Continuous.

Dear Mum and Dad,

Hi! How are you all? I _______________ (celebrate) the end of the tourist season! I am really tired. There aren’t many tourists here now.

Life is much slower. I still _______________ (get up) early. The birds _______________ (make) a lot of noise when the sun comes up –It’s hard to sleep after six. I usually _______________ (take) a walk along the beach and I _______________ (have)a swim before breakfast. I _______________ (have) breakfast at the moment. This morning I _______________ (eat) a mango from the tree outside my room. I _______________  (drink) coffee, although I usually _______________  (have) tea.

I’ve only got two trips today. I _______________ (take) the first group of tourists to the coral reef at 7.30. And then one at about 3.30. It _______________  (get) dark at about 6.30. Each trip _______________  (last) about two and a half hours. And in between – there’s time for a long lunch and a long sleep!

Only one more month of paradise. I _______________ (love) this island. I _______________  (fly) home on May 24th May. Can you meet me at the airport?

See you soon!

Love, Andy.

3.      Read and then do the exercises:

In the forest there are animals that hunt and kill other animals for food. One of them is the fox. The fox is the only member of the dog family that is living as a wild animal in Great Britain. Foxes have a reddish-brown coat and they also have long bush tails. The fox has a characteristic that makes it famous. It is very intelligent. It likes to steal hens that are living on farms. It also kills rats and rabbits at night.

A)    Underline the verbs in the PRESENT SIMPLE (RED) and the verbs in the PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE (GREEN)

B)    Write the questions

1)      ____________________________________________

In the forest

2)      ____________________________________________

They hunt and kill for their food.

3)      ____________________________________________

For their food.

4)      ____________________________________________

A reddish- brown coat.

5)      ____________________________________________

At night.

4.      Read the passage and write the questions fir the answers that are written.

Every thirty seconds somewhere in the world the Earth shakes a little. The people that live nearby feel it but nothing breaks. But sometimes roads break up because the land shakes violently, constructions like buildings and bridges fall. An earthquake occurs in places where the Earth plates meet. One example is the San Andreas Fault which is 435 km long. It is Central California.

1)      ________________________________________________________

Every thirty seconds.

2)      ________________________________________________________

The people that live nearby.

3)      ________________________________________________________

Because the land shakes violently.

4)      ________________________________________________________

Buildings and bridges.

5)      ________________________________________________________

In places where the Earth plates meet.

6)      ________________________________________________________

435 km.