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English Grammar Exercises for A1 – Contrast: present simple and present continuous

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1. Complete the rules. Write present simple or present continuous.

  • We use the:
  • 1)
    for something that happens regularly, always or never.
  • 2)
    for something happening at this moment.
  • 3)
    for something happening around this time.
  • 4)
    for a fact that is always true.
  • 5)
    with certain verbs that we don’t usually use in continuous tenses, e.g. believe, know, etc.

2. Match the sentences (a-h) with the rules in exercise 1. Write 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.

  • a)
    This week my dad is working in London.
  • b)
    I’m wearing a blue T-shirt.
  • c)
    School finishes at four o’clock.
  • d)
    Do you understand this word?
  • e)
    I don’t want a sandwich.
  • f)
    The sun comes up in the east.
  • g)
    We usually walk to school.
  • h)
    Why are you smiling?

3. Complete the email. Use the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

  • To: [email protected]
  • Hi Mel,
  • What 1) (you / do) at the moment?
  • I 2) (sit) in Mario’s café.
  • I 3) (drink) a milkshake. This café 4) (make) the best milkshakes in town!
  • I 5) (often / come) here after school with my friend Sally. In fact, 6) (wait) for her now. She’s always late. I 7) (not understand) why! Anyway, can I borrow your geography textbook? I 8) (need) it for that test next week. I can’t find mine. Oh, Sally 9) (come) into the café now.
  • Bye, see you later!
  • Dan

4. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the present simple in one gap and the present continuous in the order.

  • 1)
    Tom often trainers to school, but today he shoes. (wear)
  • 2)
    We a DVD at the moment, but we TV most evenings. (watch)
  • 3)
    I usually a sandwich for lunch, but today I some soup. (have)
  • 4)
    My mum in an office in Manchester, but his month she in Glasgow. (work)
  • 5)
    It hardly ever here, but it at the moment. (snow)
  • 6)
    Jason and Tilly their bedrooms right now, but they usually them at the weekend. (tidy)

5. Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the affirmative or negative form of the present simple or the present continuous.

  • have know laugh like prefer sing watch
  • 1)
    Which you , history or geography?
  • 2)
    ‘Where’s George?’ ‘He a shower.’
  • 3)
    I this pizza. It’s horrible!
  • 4)
    ‘We the answer to this question.’ ‘Well, ask the teacher.’
  • 5)
    ‘What’s that terrible noise?’ ‘Kate !’
  • 6)
    ‘Why Ben ?’ ‘Because he a funny film.’

6. There are mistakes in five of these sentences. Find the mistakes and write the five sentences correctly.

  • 1)
    ‘Are you wanting an ice cream?’ ‘No, thanks.’
  • 2)
    Right now I do my homework.
  • 3)
    I’m reading a really good book about Cristiano Ronaldo.
  • 4)
    Josh and Sam are hating maths.
  • 5)
    I don’t believe in ghosts.
  • 6)
    I’m sometimes play the guitar in my bedroom.
  • 7)
    It’s sometimes raining a lot in Scotland.

7. Complete the sentences with the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs below.

  • buy go not go out not like make not want not wear work
  • 1)
    I a skirt for the party, but it isn’t finished.
  • 2)
    I this shop. It’s expensive.
  • 3)
    Tina usually clothes shopping with her friends.
  • 4)
    My sister’s at the shopping centre. She a dress for her friend’s wedding.
  • 5)
    Tony’s cold. He a coat.
  • 6)
    My brother to buy new trousers. He’s happy with his old jeans.
  • 7)
    We’re tired. We tonight.
  • 8)
    People in clothes factories in Bangladesh very long hours.

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