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SIMPLE PRESENT AND CONTINUOUS TENSES

Exercise I : Put the verbs in brackets in the present simple

1.     I (be) ________ at school at the weekend.2.     She (not study) ________ on Friday.
3.     My students (be not) ________ hard working.
4.     He (have) ________ a new haircut today.5.     She (live) ________ in a house?
6.     Where your children (be) ________?8.     My sister (work) ________ in a bank.
9.     Dog (like) ________ meat.10. It (rain)________ almost every day in Manchester.
Exercise I : Put the verbs in brackets inthe present continuous tense.

1. John (not read) ________ a book now. 2. What you (do) ________ tonight?
3. Jack and Peter (work) _____ late today. 4. Silvia (not listen) ______ to music now.
5. How many other students you (study) ________ with today?
6. He always (make) ________ noisy at night.
7. While I (do)________ my housework, my husband (read)________ books.
8. My children (be)________ upstairs now. They (play)________ games.
9. The weather (get) ________ cold this season.
Exercise III: Put the verbs in brackets in the present simple or the present continuous tense.
1/ I (have) __________ coffee for breakfast every day.
2/ My brother (work) __________ in a shoe store this summer.
3/ The student (look) ___________ up that new word now.
4/ She (go) __________ to school every day.
5/ We (do) __________ this exercise at the moment.
6/ Miss Helen (read) ___________ a newspaper now.
7/ It (rain) __________ very much in the summer. It (rain) _________ now.
8/ Bad students never (work) __________ hard.
9/ He generally (sing) __________ in English, but today he (sing) __________ in Spanish.
10/ We seldom (eat) __________ before 6.30.
11/ She sometimes (buy) ___________ vegetables at his market.
12/ Be quiet. The baby (sleep) ____________.
13/ We always (do) ___________ our exercises carefully.
14/ Look. A man (run) ___________ after the train. He (want) ___________ to catch it.
15/ It (be) __________ very cold now. 16/ John (travel) __________ to England tomorrow.
17/ I (need) ____________ some money for my textbooks.
18/ Tom (like) __________ to go to the museums. 19/ Mary (love) __________ ice-cream.
20/ My mother (cook) ___________ some food in the kitchen at present. She always (cook) _________ in the mornings.