PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Questão 1
Choose the correct verb form.
a) I have / am having a great time on this holiday.

b) She's Italian she comes / is coming from Rome.

c) 'Are you enjoying / do you enjoy your meal?' 'Yes, it's very good.'
d) This term, I study / am studying Latin.
e) Let me know when you receive / are receiving this letter.

f) Water boils / is boiling at a hundred degrees.

g) I make / am making a lot of progress at the moment.
h) It worries / is worrying me a lot at the moment.
i) I get / am getting up at seven o'clock on weekdays.
j) Mom is making / makes dinner every day.

k) Dad is working / works at the office now.

l) The men are talking / talk about this all the time.
m) Hillary is organizing / organizes her room on weekends.
n) The director is talking / talks to the students at the moment in his room.

o) Alice is loving / loves to study at her school every day.

p) I’m not eating / don’t eat pasta because I’m on a diet.
q) The doctor is examining / examines his patient every week to check if everything is ok.
r) Look! That woman is taking / takes your car!
s) Every year we are giving / give some clothes to the poor.
t) Mom is loving / loves cooking.

Questão 2
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in simple present tense or present continuous
tense.
1. Right now I (watch) _____________ a movie. I (watch) _______ a lot of movies.

2. Rickie (be) _______ my friend. We (like) _______ to talk together. Right now we (talk)
______________ about school.
3. The police officer (wear) ________ a badge and a gun to work every day.
4. Jaime usually (eat) _______ cold cereal for breakfast, but today he (eat) _______________
oatmeal instead.
5. Alison and I (study) ______________ for the exam. We (not, want) _____________________ to
fail it!
6. Jonas (sing) ________ in the band on Saturdays, and Veda (play) _______ the guitar.

7. My uncle (live) _______ in Tennessee. I (live) _______ in North Carolina.

8. My mom (cook) ______________ dinner tonight. (You, want) _______________ to eat with us?
9. Tiffany and Mark (travel) ______________ to Spain. They will stay in Madrid.
10. We (read) _______ the newspaper every morning.
Questão 3

Complete the text with the correct form of the verb in simple present tense or present continuous
tense.
My favourite aunt, Monica, ____________ (teach) archeology at the university. Right now she
____________ (give) a class on the art of ancient Egypt. She ____________ (do) a lot of sports and
____________ (go) to the cinema regularly. This month, she ____________ (learn) to hang glide.
But she also ____________ (climb) mountains every weekend and ____________ (do) scuba diving
when she is on holidays.

PRESENT PERFECT – FOR / SINCE – YET / ALREADY

Questão 4
Use these prompts to write Present perfect sentences using the adverbs in brackets. You may need
to add some words. The first exercise has been done for you as an example.
a) William / buy / tickets / for / match. (already)
William has already bought the tickets for the match.
b) Sally / not find / job/? (yet).
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c) We / be/ to Wien / four times (already).

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d) I / not buy/ new car (yet).
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e) David / arrive / from London (yet).

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f) Dorothy / see / a Star Wars film (never).
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Questão 5

Complete these sentences using for or since.

a) Mark has had violin lessons ________ last January.
b) We have known Diane ________ two years.
c) Have you seen Andrew ________ last week?

d) Karen has had long hair ________ she was 13.

e) They have been close friends ________ twenty years.
f) My parents and I lived in the same house ________ 1990.
g) We have been good friends ……… many years.
h) I have known you ……… you were born.

i) We’ve been awake ……… 6 o’clock this morning.

j) Our parents have been married ……… 10 years.
k) We’ve been waiting for them ………. half an hour.
Questão 6

Correct the following sentences.

a) I've lived here since ten years.
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b) I've studied English for 1998.

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c) I've known her since a long time.
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d) I haven't eaten sushi for I lived in Japan.
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e) I've been a student since too long.

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Questão 7
Complete the table in the present perfect.

Questão 8
Fill in the gaps with the verbs in parenthesis in the PRESENT PERFECT TENSE. Notice there are regular
and irregular verbs.

a) Don __________________________________ his leg. (break)

b) I _________________________________ here all my life. (live)
c) Collin _____________________________the room. (leave)
d) ___________ Ted ______________ yet? (phone)

e) We ___________________________ that movie twice. (see)

f) Emily _______________ never ____________ sushi. (eat)
g) Someone _____________________________ the garden. (destroy)
h) The kids ____________________________________ the exercises. (finish / negative)
i) ______________ you __________________ dinner? (make)

j) ____________ the teacher ____________________ the new lesson? (explain)

Questão 9
Read the part of Michael Bublé’s song and fill in the spaces using the present perfect tense.
I’m not surprised.

Not everything lasts.

I ______________________________ my heart so many times. (break)
I ______________________________ keeping track. (stop)
I thought I’d thought every possibility.

And I know someday it’ll all turn out

I just ___________________________ you yet. (meet / negative)
Questão 10
Complete the gaps with YET or ALREADY.

- Don, have you ever been to Portugal?

- No, but I have ______________ visited London. I haven’t been to Italy ____________. I want to go
there. People say Milan is a fantastic city.
- Well, I have ______________ been to Milan. I can give you some tips about the place. Would you
like it?

- Great! This way I won’t lose time going to wrong places in a country I haven’t visited _________.
Read the text and answer the questions
Food
While eating at a restaurant is an enjoyable and convenient occasional treat, most individuals and
families prepare their meals at home. To make breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, these persons must
have the required foods and ingredients on hand and ready to go; foods and ingredients are typically
purchased from a grocery store, or an establishment that distributes foods, drinks, household
products, and other items that're used by the typical consumer.

Produce, or the term used to describe fresh fruits and vegetables, is commonly purchased by grocery
store shoppers. In terms of fruit, most grocery stores offer bananas, apples, oranges, blackberries,
raspberries, grapes, pineapples, cantaloupes, watermelons, and more; other grocery stores with
larger produce selections might offer the listed fruits in addition to less common fruits, including
mangoes, honeydews, starfruits, coconuts, and more.
Depending on the grocery store, customers can purchase fruits in a few different ways. Some stores
will charge a set amount per pound of fruit, and will weigh customers' fruit purchases and bill them
accordingly; other stores will charge customers for each piece of fruit they buy, or for bundles of
fruit (a bag of bananas, a bag of apples, etc.); other stores yet will simply charge by the container.

Vegetables, including lettuce, corn, tomatoes, onions, celery, cucumbers, mushrooms, and more are
also sold at many grocery stores, and are purchased similarly to the way that fruits are. Grocery
stores typically stock more vegetables than fruit at any given time, as vegetables remain fresh longer
than fruits do, generally speaking.

It'd take quite a while to list everything else that today's massive grocery stores sell, but most
customers take the opportunity to shop for staples, or foods that play a prominent role in the
average diet, at the establishments. Staples include pasta, rice, flour, sugar, milk, meat, and eggs,
and bread. All the listed staples are available in prepackaged containers, but can be purchased
"fresh" in some grocery stores, wherein employees will measure and weigh fresh products and then
provide them to customers.
Questão 11
What is a grocery store?

(a) An establishment that cooks food for customers and then sells everything that has been cooked.
(b) It is not possible to understand what a grocery is because it is not necessary a store.
(c) A place to sell trade goods and home furniture.
(d) An establishment that distributes foods, drinks, household products, and other items that're used
by the typical consumer.

(e) A fancy supermarket.

Questão 12
Fresh fruits and vegetables are collectively referred to as which of the following terms?
(a) Produce (b) Feggies

(c) Veggies (d) Famine (e) Distribuite

Questão 13
What are staples?
(a) Small pieces of metal used to hold papers together (b) Rare foods

(c) Foods that play a prominent role in the average diet (d) Green fruits and vegetables
(e) Junk food
Questão 14
More vegetables are stocked in grocery stores than fruits because:
(a) Fruits stay fresh for less time than vegetables

(b) Vegetables are more popular than fruits, generally speaking

(c) Grocery store managers prefer fruits
(d) Grocery store managers prefer vegetables.
(e) Grocery store managers do not prefer neither fruits nor vegetables.
Questão 15

"Fresh" groceries are:

(a) Prepared by employees
(b) Measured manually
(c) Charged by the pound

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the above
Questão 16
Read the text and answer the questions.
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