PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT EXERCISES

1. Put the time  expressions under the right heading. Translate them.

Every day/ just now / nearly always / on Fridays / these days / this afternoon / hardly ever / today / very often / 

when I’m tired / in the evening / at present / at the moment / rarely / usually / never 

PRESENT SIMPLE	PRESENT CONTINUOUS

3. Put the verbs in the PRESENT SIMPLE or the PRESENT CONTINUOUS

​1. Vegetarians are people who .................................................. (not / eat ) meat.

​2Look out! My father ........................................... (come)

​3. Some people ................................... (think) the sun ............................. (go) round the earth.

​4. My brother.................................. (play) tennis every weekend.

​5. Look! She ............................................ (wear) the same shoes as me.

​6. a: What ................................................ (you/look) at? B: A strange bird!

​7. We ....................................................... (usually/stay) with Peggy when we go to Chicago.

​8.  What time .................................................. (you/go) to bed on Saturdays?

​9.  Don’t ask Tim. He ...................................... (not/know) the answer.

​10. I .................................. (have) lunch at the moment.

​11.  I ............................................... (not/understand) the exercise.

​12. Excuse me, ............................................ (you/know) the time?

​13. This is a great party. I .................................... (have) a lovely time.

​14. a: Penny ......................................... (like) cheese sandwiches but she ........................... (not like) tuna sandwiches.

​15. a: What time ............................................ (your sister/get up)? She .......................... (usually/get up) at 7.30 am. 

​16. We ......................................... (not/watch) videos at school but we .................. (sometimes/ listen) to music.

​17. Look out of the window! It ................................. (snow).

​18. a: ...................................................... (you/wear) a uniform at your school? B: Yes, ​........................

REVISION OF TENSES

REVISION OF TENSES

1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:

Tom Wilson 1) ....is..  (be) an explorer. He 2)  ………….(be) to nearly every country in the world, but the most exciting time he 3)   …………………………. (ever/have) was when he 4) ……………………  (go) to the Congo jungle. A magazine 5)…………………..   (ask) him to retrace the route of a famous explorer who 6) ………………….  (disappear) in the 1920's. As he 7)  ……………….(follow) a small river he got separated from his guides. He 8) …………………………. (go on) alone, hoping he 9) ………………….. (find) them, but  instead he 10) ………………… (encounter) a group of natives. He 11)  …............... (stay) with them for several days and 12) …………………….. (find out) that a very old woman
13) ……………………(actually/meet) the famous explorer. She 14) ……………     (know)
how he 15) …………………………….(die). Tom 16) ………………………….(become) very
friendly with the natives and now he 17) …………………………… (plan) to go back and see them again. He is sure they 18) …………………………………..(welcome) him back.

2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:

When Francis Lee was a boy he 1) .............................  (want) to be an astronaut. He
2)  ……........…….(watch) TV one day in 1969 when he 3)   ……………………. (see) Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Since then he 4) …………….......………  (always/dream) of doing the same. Every night when there is a full moon, he 5)………….……….. (stare) up at it for hours and 6) ……………..........…….  (imagine) himself walking around on it. At the moment, however, he 7)  ……………….(work) as a night-watchman at a meat factory. He 8) …………………………. (do) the same job since he left school fifteen years ago, but he still hopes that one day his dream 9) ……….............………….. (come) true. He 10) ………………… (hear) that in the 21st century they 11)  …................... (sell) tickets to fly to the moon. For this reason he 12) …………….............(save) half of his wages every month for the past two years.

PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS EXERCISES

PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS

OPINION ESSAY

You can see an example of an OPINION ESSAY here

Have a look and do some practice!!

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CONNECTORS

On this link you can find a great amount of really interesting and useful connectors that you can use in your compositions.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS EXERCISES

REVIEW OF VERB TENSES

• This is a review of verb tenses in two pages.
• Here you have an exercise on verb tenses.
• And these are two texts for you to see how verb tenses work in a text. 

PRESENT SIMPLE 1

Click on the red link below to practice the Present Simple.

 Watch the video and do the first three activities (check your grammar).

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/present-simple