SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PRESENT

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LESSON: SIMPLE PRESENT & PRESENT CONTINUOUS

I SIMPLE PRESENT

Exercise 1: Put the verb in the present simple tense

1 She (wash) _her clothes every Sunday

2 She (study _English every day

3 He (want) _to become a teacher

4 She usually (walk) _to school

5 What time _Mary usually (get) _up every morning?

6 She (not wash) _her clothes every weekend

7 _they (be) teachers?

8 It (not be) _often cold in summer

9 Tom usually (walk) _to school

10 He (be) _a student

11 I (be) _sixteen years old

12 They (be) _very friendly

13 Every week she (go) _to visit her parents

14 What time _your father usually (get) _up?

15 We (not go) _to school on Sundays

16 We (not be) _very lazy

17 The Earth (go) _ around the Sun

18 I (visit) _my parents very often

19 _he (go) _to school every day?

20 _she (come) _from Japanese?

Exercise 2: Give the correct tense form of the verbs

1 He often _ (go) to school on foot

2 She _ (go) to school everyday

3 Bad students never _ (work) hard

4 It often _ (rain) in the summer

5 He usually _ (water) the trees in the morning

6 She always _ (cook) in the morning

7 I always _ (meet) him on the corner of this street

8 He _ (not do) morning exercises regularly

9 Water _ (boil) at 100 degrees centigrade

10 _You (be) a good student?

11 They _usually _ (not go) to school by motorbike

12 They _ (not be) doctors

13 He often _ (get) up late

14 _you often _ (watch) TV?

15 I usually _ (go) shopping on weekend

16 Hai often _ (wash) his face at 6.15

17 Thanh and Mai always _ (see) a movie on Saturday

18 _he often _ (take) a bus to school?

19 We _ (be) student in class 8A

20 She _often _ (not do) homework in the evening

21 He usually _ (take) a taxi to the airport

22 They _Usually _ (not go) to school by bike

23 _They (be) beautiful?

24 They often _ (visit) their parents on Saturday

25 My and I always _ (go) to the countryside

26 He _ (not be) at home now

27 Our teacher usually _ (give) us many exercises

28 He (go) _to School everyday

29 She (come) _from Germany

30 Daisy usually (go) _to work by car

Exercise 3: Multiple choice

1 The weather very nice today

2 Rome _ in Spain It is in Italy

3 Where _ my key?

4 Dunford is a very modern town many old buildings there

A there isn’t B there be not C there aren’t D there are

5 Look! There a photograph of George in the Newspaper!

6 Ann is at home but her children _ at school

7 How many rooms in your house?

A is there B are there C there are D there is

8 Cats big animals

9 Who _ your favorite actor?

10 books expensive in your country?

11 He often _ the car at weekends

12 What time _you often _ up every morning?

A Does/ get B do/get C do/gets D don’t/gets

13 _she _ English?

A Do/likes B Do/like C Does/likes D Does/like

14 He often _ (catch) a train to work

15 The cat _ (chase) mouse

16 My old friend, Manh _ (write) to me twice a month

A Don’t write B doesn’t writes C writes D writing

17 We (watch) _TV every night

A watching B watches C don’t watches D watch

18 He (walk) _to work every day

19 He (be) _in Ca Mau

20 They (be) _students

Exercise 4: Correct the mistakes

1 How often is he go to the movie?

2 Minh go to school every morning

3 She is often gets up at 5:30

4 Don’t your school have two floors?

5 The students play sometimes soccer in the afternoon

6 My brother isn’t have breakfast at 6:00

7 The children has lunch at 11:00 everyday

8 We alway go swimming on Saturdays

9 Does she plays sports every day?

10 My mother doesn’t goes shopping on Sundays

11 We seldom eats before 6.30

12 The sun is sets in the West

13 It doesn’t often hot in summer

14 My mother sometimes buyes vegetable at this market

15 It rain much in summer

16 The earth circle the sun once every 365 days

17 The farmers are work in the field every days

18 Rivers flow usually to the sea

19 Mrs Green always doesn’t go to work by bus

20 That house is belong to Mr Green

II PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Exercise 1: Rewrite each sentence as a positive, negative, or question

Example: She (read) is reading _at the moment

She isn’t reading at the moment

Is she reading at the moment?

1 He (watch) TV right now

2 At present they (sit) _ in the class

3 This year we (learn) _ English

4 Look! Peter (play) football in the schoolyard

5 Be quiet! The baby (sleep) _

6 Look! The man (smoke) there

7 She (write) _ to her parents now

8 My father (work) _in the garden at the moment

9 John (listen) _ to the radio now

10 He (play) _chess at the moment

Exercise 2: Put the verb in the present continuous tense

1 The workers (work) in the firm at the moment

2 Please be quite! You (make) _ _so much noise so I can’t concentrate

3 Tony (have) _ _a bath at the moment

4 Listen! He (read) _a story by Shakespeare

5 At present Richard (study) _in London

6 This term I (study) _philosophy and economics

7 Janet (have) _a shower at the moment

8 They (not/study) _at present

9 Yukiko (have) _a bath now

10 We (make) _a cake at the moment

11 Jane (watch) _television at the moment

12 Look! The boy (cry)

13 Alice and Mary (put) _ the dishes away right now

14 The farmer (work) _ in the field now

15 Look! It (snow) _

16 Phong (sleep) _ right now

17 Mother (cook) some food in the kitchen at present

18 Just a minute! I (look up) that word in the dictionary

19 _you (write) a letter now?

20 They (not read) books in the sitting room right now

21 Look! They (play) _ football

22 She (sweep) _ the floor now

23 What she (do) now?

24 She (wash) the clothes at the moment

25 Listen! Peter and Daisy (sing) now

26 My brother (not watch) _TV now He (wash) his car

27 He (study) _ English this month

28 you (work) in the garden now?

29 Peter (talk) to Susan now

30 She (listen) _to the radio in her bedroom at the moment

Exercise 3: Multiple choice:

1 I Christine Do you know where she is?

A is looking B are looking C am looking D look

2 It dark Shall I turn on the light?

A is got B are geting C is getting D are getting

3 They don’t have anywhere to live at the moment They with friends until they find

somewhere

A is staying B are staying C am staying D stay

4 Things aren’t so good at work The company money

A is loosen B are losing C are loseing D is losing

5 Have you got an umbrella? It to rain

A is starting B are starting C am starting D start

6 You a lot of noise Can you be quieter? I to concentrate

A is making/am trying B are makeing/ am trying

C are making/ am trying D is making/ am trying

7 Why are all these people here? What ?

A am happening B are happening C is happening D happening

8 Please don’t make so much noise I to work

A is trying B are trying C trying D am trying

9 Let’s go out now It any more

A am raining B is raining C are raining D raining

10 You can turn off the radio I to it

A are not listening B isn’t listening C am not listening D don’t listening

11 Kate phoned me last night She is on holiday in France She a great time and doesn’t

want to come back

A is haven B are having C am haveing D is having

12 I want to lose weight, so this week I lunch

A am not eating B isn’t eating C aren’t eating D is not eating

13 Andrew has just started evening classes He German

A are learning B is learning C am learning D learning

14 Paul and Sally have an argument They to each other

A are speaking B is speaking C am speaking D speaking

15 I tired I need a rest

A is getting B are getting C is geting D am getting

16 Tim this week He is on holiday

A is not working B are working C am working D works

17 Listen! Sam the piano

A are playing B am playing C plays D is playing

18 They a new hotel in the city center

A are building B am building C is building D build

19 Look! Somebody in the river

A is swiming B are swimming C am swimming D is swimming

20 The phone

A aren’t ringing B isn’t ringing C don’t ringing D doesn’t ring

21 (it start) to rain?

A am it starting B are it starting C does it starting D is it starting

22 Sue to become a doctor?

A are playing B am playing C plays D is playing

23 You (take) .your daughter with you?

A Are you taking B is you taking C am you taking D are you taking

24 The dog (play) with the kids?

A are the dog playing B am the dog playing

C does the dog playing D is the dog playing

25 They (come) tonight?

A am they coming B is they coming C are they coming D is they coming

26 Be quiet! The baby

A is sleeping B sleep C sleeps D are sleeping

27 Look! A man after the train He (want) to catch it

A is runing B runs C run D is running

28 I an exercise on the present tenses at this moment

A is doing B are doing C am doing D do

29 My father in the garden and it now

A is working/ is rainingB works/ rains C working/ raining D are working/ are raining

30 Mai some food at present She always in the morning

A is cooking/ cooks B cooks/ is cooking C cooks/ cooks D is cooking/ is cooking

31 The students the test right now?

A are do B are doing C is doing D do do

32 Now She for her husband in the rain

a are waiting B is waiting C waits D wait

33 His brother a novel at the moment?

a are writing B are writing C is writing D is writing

34 The children in the kitchen at present

a isn’t playing B am not playing C aren’t playing D play

35 Lan to the English teacher now

a isn’t speaking B aren’t speaking C doesn’t speak D don’t speak

36 They the Christmas dinner at present

a are preparing B is preparing C prepare D prepares

37 John that car now

a am driving B is driving C are driving D is driveing

38 The workers a new house right now

a are building B am building C is building D build

39 Tom two poems at the moment?

a are writing B are writing C is writing D is writing

40 The chief engineer all the workers of the plant now

a is instructing B are instructing C instructs D instruct

Exercise 4: Correct the mistakes

1 He paints his pictures at the moment

2 We plant the herbs in the garden at present

3 They makes the artificial flowers of silk now

4 Your father are repairing your motorbike at the moment

5 Look! The man takes the children to the cinema

6 Listen! The teacher are explaining a new lesson to us

7 Be careful! You brings ten glass bottles

8 Ba studies Math very hard now

9 We is have dinner in a restaurant right now

10 I watching TV with my parents in the living room now

11 Some people drink coffee now

12 At present, he are composing a piece of music

13 My father listens to the radio now

14 Where is your mother? - She have dinner in the kitchen

15 Mr Nam don’t work at the moment

16 The children plays in the park at the moment

17 John not reading a book now

18 What do you do tonight?

19 Silvia doesn’t listen to music at the moment

20 Maria sits next to Paul right now

KEYS

I SIMPLE PRESENT

Exercise 1: Put the verb in the present simple tense

1 washes

2 studies

3 wants

4 walks

5 does….get

6 doesn’t wash

7 are

8 isn’t

9 walks

10 is

11 am

12 are

13 goes

14 does….get

15 don’t go

16 aren’t

17 goes

18 visit

19 does….go

20 does…come

Exercise 2: Put the verb in the present simple tense

1 goes

2 goes

3 work

4 rains

5 waters

6 cooks

7 meet

8 doesn’t do

9 boils

10 are

11 don’t…go

12 aren’t

13 gets

14 do…watch

15 go

16 washes

17 see

18 does… take

19 are

20 doesn’t….do

21 takes

22 don’t……go

23 are

24 visit

25 go

26 isn’t gives

27 gives

28 goes

29 comes

30 goes

Exercise 3: Multiple choice

1.B 2.C 3.B 4.D 5.B 6.A 7.B 8.C 9.C 10.D 11.A 12.B 13.D 14.A 15.A 16.C 17.D 18.A 19.B 20.B

Exercise 4: Correct the mistakes

1 is – does

2 go – goes

3 is – bỏ

4 Don’t – Doesn’t

5 play sometimes – sometimes play

6 isn’t have – has

7 has – have

8 alway - always

9 plays – play

10 goes - go

11 eats – eat

12 is – bỏ is

13 doesn’t – is

14 buyes – buys

15 rain – rains

16 circle- circles

17 are – bỏ

18 flow usually- usually flow

19 always doesn’t - doesn’t always

20 is belong - belongs

II PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Exercise 1: Rewrite each sentence as a positive, negative, or question:

1 is watching

2 are sitting

3 are learning

4 is playing

5 is sleeping

6 is smoking

7 is writing

8 is working

9 is listening

10 is playing

Exercise 2: Put the verb in the present continuous tense:

1 are working

2 are making

3 is having

4 is reading

5 is studying

6 am studying

7 is having

8 aren’t studying

9 is having

10 are making

11 is watching

12 is crying

13 are putting

14 is working

15 is snowing

16 is sleeping

17 is cooking

18 am looking up

19 are … writing

20 aren’t reading

21 are looking

22 is sweeping

23 is … doing

24 is washing

25 are singing

26 isn’t watching

27 is studying

28 are… working

29 is talking

30 is listening