Inglés I

FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN
DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGÍA INGLESA

PRESENT SIMPLE/PRESENT CONTINUOUS

EXERCISES
1- PUT IN AM / IS / ARE / DO / DON’T / DOES / DOESN’T.
1. Excuse me, ________________ you speak English?
2. Have a cigarette.” “No, thank you, I ________________ smoke”.
3. Why________________ you laughing at me?
4. “What ________________ she do?” “She’s a dentist.”
5. I ________________ want to go out. It ________________ raining.
6. “Where ________________ you come from?” “From Canada”.
7. How much ________________ it cost to send a letter to Canada?
8. I can’t talk to you at the moment. I ________________ working.
9. George is a good tennis player but he ________________ play very often.

2- PUT THE VERB IN THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS OR PRESENT SIMPLE.

1. Excuse me, ________________ (you/speak) English?
2. Tom ________________ (have) a shower at the moment.
3. They ________________ (not/watch) television very often.
4. Listen! Somebody________________ (sing)
5. She’s tired. She ________________ (want) to go home now.
6. How often ________________ (you/read) a newspaper?
7. Excuse me, but you ________________ (sit) in my place.
8. I’m sorry, I ________________ (not understand). Please speak more slowly.
9. Where are you, Roy? I’m in the sitting room. I ________________ (read).
10. What time ________________ (she/ finish) work every day?
11. You can turn off the radio. I ________________ (not listen) to it.
12. He ________________ (not/usually/drive) to work. He usually ________________ (walk).

3- WRITE THE SENTENCES AGAIN WITH THE WORDS IN BRACKETS.

1- My brother speaks to me. (never)
2- Susan is polite ( always)
3- I finish work at half past five. (usually)
4- I go to bed before midnight. (rarely)
5- The bus isn’t late. (usually)
6- I don’t eat meat. (often)
7- They stay in the same hotel. (always)
8- Diane doesn’t work on Saturdays. (usually)
9- I can remember his name. (never)
10- What do you have for breakfast? (usually)
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4- PUT THE VERBS IN THE CORRECT TENSE, PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS.
Dear Karen,
I _______________ (have) a great time here in England. My university term
______________(not start) until the autumn, so I __________________ (take) the opportunity to improve
my English. I _________________ (stay) with some English friends who_____________ (own) a farm.
On weekdays I _______________ (catch) a bus into Torquay to go to language classes. I
_______________ (make) good progress, I think. My friends _______________ (say) my pronunciation is
much better than when I arrived, and I ________________ (understand) almost everything now. At
weekends I ________________ (help) on the farm. At the moment they ________________ (harvest) the
corn and they __________________ (need) all the help they can get. It’s quite hard work, but I
_________________ (like) it. I _________________ (develop) some strong muscles!
___________________ (you/come) to visit me at Christmas? I ________________ (spend) the
winter holiday here at the farm. My friends ________________ (want) to meet you and there’s plenty of
space. But you must bring your warmest clothes. It _________________ (get) very cold here in winter.
Let me know as soon as you __________________ (decide). And tell me what you
__________________ (do) these days.
Love,
Paul

5- PUT THE VERBS IN THE CORRECT TENSE, PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS.
Leila Markham is an environmentalist. She is being interviewed on the radio by Tony Hunt, a journalist.

TONY: So tell me, Leila, why is it important to save the rainforests?

LEILA: There are a number of reasons. One is that many plants which could be useful in medicine ______________
(grow) in the rainforest. We ______________ (not know) all the plants yet- there are thousands and thousands of
them. Researchers ______________ (try) to discover their secrets before they are destroyed.
TONY: I see. What other reasons are there?
LEILA: Well, I’m sure you’ve heard about global warming?
TONY: You mean, the idea that the world ______________ (get) warmer?
LEILA: That’s right. The rainforests ______________ (have) an important effect on the earth’s climate. They
______________ (disappear) at a
terrific rate and soon they will be gone. People ______________ (not do) enough to save them.
TONY: But is global warming really such a problem? I ______________ (enjoy) warm sunshine.
LEILA: Well, what ______________ (happen) when you ______________ (heat) ice?
TONY: It ______________ (melt) of course.
LEILA: OK. The polar ice caps ______________ (consist) of millions of tons of ice. If they ______________ (melt),
the level of the sea will rise and cause terrible floods. Many scientists ______________ (believe) that temperatures -
______________ (already rise). We must do everything we can to prevent global warming and that ______________
(include) preserving the rain forest.
TONY: Thank you, Leila, and good luck in your campaign.
LEYLA: Thank you.
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6- COMPLETE THE TEXT WITH THE PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS FORM OF
THE VERB IN BRACKETS.

Population _______________ (mean) the number of people who live in a particular area. The population
of the world_______________ (not stay) the same. At the moment it _______________ (grow) at an
increasing rate. In fact, scientists _______________ (believe) that the world population will increase until
2200, and then stop growing. However, things are not the same in all parts of the world. At present in
many western industrial countries the population _______________ (fall). This _______________
(happen) because families are small, and health conditions are good. In developing countries, on the other
hand, the population _______________ (rise) sharply. In Ghana, for example, most families
_______________ (have) several children. Many children in Ghana _______________ die) from illness so
it is important to have a lot of children. They _______________ (earn) money for the family and
_______________ (look after) their parents in old age.

7- COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE PRESENT SIMPLE OR THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
FORM OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS.

a. Everybody ______________ (know) that the world’s rainforests _____________ (disappear).

b. Although rainforests ______________ (cover) only six per cent of the Earth’s land surface, they
______________ (contain) about 50% of all species of life on the planet.
c. They also _____________ (remove) carbon dioxide from the air and ____________ (produce)
oxygen.
d. As they are important, why ___________________ (they/vanish)?
e. Most scientists ________________ (agree) that there are two main reasons.
f. First of all, the way of life in these forests _________________ (change).
g. In some forests, big companies ________________ (cut) down more and more trees and
_______________ (cause) damage to the land.
h. In other places, another kind of deforestation _________________ (happen).
i. Here farmers _____________ (burn) more and more of the forest and _______________ (use) the
land to feed the cattle.
j. Now that governments ______________ (understand) the problem, they _______________ ( begin)
to control these activities.

8- UNDERLINE THE CORRECT FORM.

a. Scientists do not understand/ are not understanding everything about the universe.
b. They disagree about some important facts. For example, does it get/ is it getting larger or smaller?
c. Although they don’t agree/are not agreeing about everything, there are some facts about the universe
which they are sure about.
d. Take the planet Venus, for instance. Here the temperature reaches/ is reaching over 400ºC.
e. And another unusual fact about Venus is that a day there lasts/is lasting longer than a year.
f. Many scientists still search/are still searching for life in other parts of the universe.
g. Do they look/Are they looking for life in Venus?
h. It doesn’t seem/It isn’t seeming to be the kind of planet where life might exist.
i. The atmosphere of Venus consists/is consisting mainly of carbon dioxide.
j. And it has/is having an air pressure 90 times greater than the Earth.