SIMPLE PRESENT

Definition
Adverbs
Forms

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Repeated actions
always, often, usually, sometimes, seldom,
never, every day, every week, every year, on
Mondays
Infinitive
3rd person singular (he, she, it) infinitive +
(s) (es) (i+es)

Affirmative

I work here. / He works here.

Negative

I don't (do not) work here work.

He doesn't (does not) work here.

Interrogative Do you work here?

Does he work here?

1. Put the verbs into the correct tense.

a) Listen! Someone ________________
you. (call)
b) Be quit, please. The baby _________
____________ at the moment. (sleep)
c) He often __________ to the movies
with his girlfriend. (go)
d) Every weekend, the boys _________
their father. (visit)
e) We ___________________volleyball
at the club on Sundays. (play)
f) She ___________________ Italian on
Mondays and Sundays. (study)
g) Look! That woman ______________
candies. (give)
h) I ______________my homework
now. (do)
i) Look! Mary ____________________
the piano. (play)
j) Every morning, I ________________
my breakfast at the snack bar. (have)
k) The kids _______________________
Woodpecker cartoon on TV right now.
(watch)
l) Look! It _____________
__________. Lets do our
snowman. (snow)
my mother party (have)

Actions happening at the moment of

speaking or around the moment of speaking
now, at the moment, Look!, Listen!
to be (am, are, is) + infinitive + ing

I am working now. / He is working

now.
Im not working now.
She isnt working now.
Am I working now?
Is she working now?

m) You have to go now.

It ____________ dark. (get)
n) Bob ____________ old movies on
DVD every night. (watch)
o) My sister and I ____________ at the
club on weekends. (swim)
p) My father ______________ at home at
11:00 p. m. every day. (arrive)
q) Dont get without now!
It __________________ outside. (rain)
r) Shut up! I still __________________ to
you. (talk)
s) Listen! The band ________________ a
beautiful song now. (play)
t) She ______________ vegetables every
day. (eat)
u) They _______________ writing an email at the moment. (write)
v) Richard never____________ his
computer by himself. (fix)
w) Martha _______________ a bath right
now. (take)
x) Martin ___________________ to
Marlin on the phone now. (talk)
y) Joanne _____________her car to work
everyday. (drive)
z) You _______________English at the
moment. (study)