GRAMMAR 4 PRESENT TIME FIRST LANGUAGE PRACTICE WITH KEY

FIRST LANGUAGE PRACTICE WITH KEY

 GRAMMAR 4 PRESENT TIME

1. Underline the most suitable verb from each sentence. 1 What sort of work do you do/ are you doing? 2 I can’t talk now. I cook / I’m cooking the dinner. 3 What shall we have? Do you like / Are you liking fish? 4 Can I borrow this laptop? Or do you use / are you using it? 5 What do the people here do / are the people here doing in the evenings? 6 Follow that bus. Then you turn / are turning left. 7 A lot of people think that the Sun goes / is going around the Earth. 8 Excuse me, do you read / are you reading your newspaper? Could I borrow it? 9 Do you wait / Are you waiting for the bus to Newcastle? 10 Andy builds / is building his own house in the country. 2 Put each verb in brackets into either the present simple or the present continuous. 1 There’s nobody here, and the door’s locked. What (we do) ____do we do now?____ 2 What (you look) _________ at? (I wear) _________the wrong clothes? 3 I (look after) _________ Jack’s dog this weekend, (you want) _________ to take it for a walk? 4 Who (drive) _________ the Mercedes that’s parked outside? 5 I (still have) _________ a pain in my leg but it (get) _________ better. 6 Who (Sue dance) _________ with? That’s not her brother, is it? 7 Harry always (look) _________ untidy! And today he (wear) _________ dirty jeans. 8 I (write) _________ in reply to your advertisement in the Daily News 9 That plant I bought (not grow) _________ very much. And I (water) _________ it every day. 10 Which hotel (you stay) _________ at when you (come) _________ here? 3 Decide whether the verb form in italics refers to present or future time. 1 Where are you staying on Saturday night? ...future.... 2 The director retires at the end of next year_________ 3 What are we doing when the guests arrive? _________ 4 I’m trying really hard to understand this book_________ 5 Wait for me here until I get back_________ 6 Sue is leaving in the morning_________ 7 I’m waiting for the bus_________ 8 I’m off now and I’m taking the car_________ 9 They’re showing a Woody Allen film on Channel 4 tonight_________ 10 I’m going for a walk this evening_________

ANSWER KEY

1 1 do you do. 2 I'm cooking. 3 Do you like. 4 are you using. 5 do the people here do . 6 turn. 7 goes. 8 are you reading. 9 Are you waiting. 10 is building. 2 1 do we do. 2 are you looking, Am I wearing.3 am looking after, Do you want. 4 drives. 5 still have, is getting. 6 is Sue dancing. 7 looks, is wearing. 8Am writing. 9 is not growing, water. 10 do you stay, come. 3 1future. 2 future. 3 future.4 present. 5 future. 6 future.7 present. 8 present. 9 future.10 future.