EXERCISES

Exercise 1.

Underline the most suitable verb form in each sentence.

a) What sort of work do you do / are you doing?

b) I can’t talk now. I cook / I’m cooking the dinner.

c) What shall we have? Do you like / Are you liking fish?

d) Can I borrow this typewriter? Or do you use / are you using it?

e) What do the people here do / are the people here doing in the evenings?

f) Follow that bus. Then you turn / are turning left.

g) A lot of people think that the Sun goes / is going around the Earth.

h) Excuse me, do you read / are you reading your newspaper? Could I borrow it?

i) Do you wait / Are you waiting for the bus to Newcastle?

j) Andy builds / is building his own house in the country.

 

Put each verb in brackets into either the present simple or the present continuous.

a) There’s nobody here, and the door’s locked. What (we do) …………………………. now?

b) What (you look) ………………….. at? (I wear) ……………………… the wrong clothes?

c) I (look after) ……………………….. Jack’s dog this weekend. (you want) ………………………. to take it for a walk?

d) Who (drive) …………………….. the Mercedes that’s parked outside?

e) I (still have) ……………………… a pain in my leg but it (get) …………………… better.

f) Who (Sue dance) ………………………… with? That’s not her brother, is it?

g) Harry always (look) ……………….. untidy! He (wear) …………………. dirty jeans.

h) I (write) …………………….. in reply to your advertisement in the Daily News.

i) That plant I bought (not grow) …………………… very much. And I (water) ………….. it every day.

j) Which hotel (you stay) ……………….. in when you (come) …………… here?