Bài tập 1: Complete the following sentences with the correct verb form of Present Continuous tense

1. I’m busy now because I _______ the house. (clean)

2. _______ they _______ lunch? (prepare)
3. The girls _______ an email to their friend. (write)
4. Her friends _______ in the park. (not play)
5. They _______ his birthday. (celebrate)
6. Do you have time to talk?
Sorry, but I _______ . (study)
7. Peter _______ his best friend. (phone)
8. He _______ a baseball cap. (wear)
9. They _______ for the key. (look)
10. Hurry! The bus _______ . (come)
11. He _______ his teeth. (clean)
12. Why _______ you _______ ? (laugh)
13. Please listen to me. I _______ to you. (talk)
14. Adam and Tracy_______ right now. (not dance)
15. She _______ her presents. (open)
Bài tập 2: Form questions in the Present Continuous tense with the words given
1. father / work / still / in the garden –
 __________________________?
2. you / your room / right now / clean –
 __________________________?
3. Anna/ do / what / in her room –
 __________________________?
4. the girls / with their friends / chat /now –
 __________________________?
5. still / she / new clothes every week / buy –
 __________________________?
6. come home / your parents / tonight / when –
 __________________________?
Bài tập 3: Complete the sentences using the present continuous form of the verb in brackets. Use
contractions where possible.
1. You ___________ (use) my mobile phone!
2. My dad ___________ (wash) his car.
3. It ___________(not rain) today.
4. Who ___________ (she / chat) to now?
5. What ________________ (you / do) at the moment?
6. We’___________(sit) on the train.
7. The students ___________(have) lunch in the canteen.score
8. ___________ you ___________ dinner?
Bài tập nâng cao
Bài tập 1: Put the verbs into the correct tense (Simple Present or Present Continous)
1. Listen! The baby _________ ___. (cry)
2. Sue sometimes ______ ______ an egg for breakfast. (have)
3. We always ______ ______ (walk) to school, but today we _______ _____the bus. (take)
4. What are you doing? I ____________ the dishes. (clean)
5. I never _________ ___ beer. (drink)
6. Who _________ ___ in the garden now? (play)
7. Look! I _________ ___ a picture. (paint)
8. English children _______ _____ French in their school. (learn)
9. Can you help me? No, sorry, I ________ for the test. (study)
10. Joe often _______ _____ to school with me. (go)
11. It’s nine o’clock and we ___________ _ lunch now. (have)
12. My sister never _______ _____tennis. (play)
13. I always _______ _____ breakfast at 7 o’clock. (eat)
 14. Susan ________ ____ TV now. (watch)
15. We ___________ _ a book at this moment. (read)
Bài tập 2: Complete the paragraph using Simple Present or Present Continous
It’s Saturday afternoon, and on Saturdays we usually ________ (sit) in the living room and _______ (watch)
our favourite sitcom. But today we ________ (not watch) TV because it ________ (not work). My sister
________ (play) on the computer, my brothers ________ (study) for their tests and I ________ (read) a
book. I often ________ (read) books, but my sister usually ________ (not play) on her computer and my
brothers ________ (not study) on the weekend very often. My parents are not at home. They ________
(visit) some friends in the city centre.
Bài tập 3: Make sentences using these hints
1. she / go home now
 _________________________.
2. I / read a great book
 _________________________.
3. she / not / wash her hair
 _________________________.
4. the cat / chase mice?
 _________________________.
5. she / cry?
 _________________________.
Bài 1: Chia động từ trong ngoặc ở thì hiện tại tiếp diễn hoặc thì hiện tại đơn
1. It often __________________ in Ireland (rain).
2. __________________ there now (rain)?
3. Susan __________________ to her parents every Sunday night (write).
4. Stop at once! You __________________ the flowers every time the ball __________________ in
the garden (break, land)
5. Where is Kevin? He __________________ tennis with Sue. (play)
6. She normally __________________ in Northbridge but she __________________ with friends at
the moment. (live, stay)
7. Hurry up, the teacher __________________ to begin (wait).
8. I __________________ a word Tim says (not believe).
9. The new lawnmower __________________ well at the moment (work)
10. What __________________ do for a living? (you, do)
11. As a secretary I __________________ hundreds of letters every week (write).
12. My boss __________________ to change jobs soon (want)
13. Look! She __________________ in the non- smoking area (smoke)
14. We __________________ our break now, Mr. Smith (take)
15. The well-known actor __________________ a lot of fan mail (get)
16. Dorothy __________________ to read a good novel in her holidays (love)
17. My brother __________________ Italy the very moment I speak (tour)
18. Such bad behaviour __________________ me mad (make).
19. He usually __________________ out on Saturday night. (go)
20. She __________________ by train to Liverpool today. (depart)
Bài 2. Hoàn thành chỗ trống trong đoạn văn sau bằng cách chia động từ trong ngoặc sao cho hợp lý
My driving course ____ (go) well and, to my surprise, I _______ (enjoy) it very much. Harry and Liz,
who run the driving school in my area, _______ (seem) very professional. But what I like most about
them is that they ______ (feel) like friends rather than teachers. I know I’m making a lot of stupid
mistakes (still!) but they keep saying: ‘Don’t worry. You ______ (learn). Everybody ______ (need) to go
through this stage’. They always ________ (concentrate) on the positive and ________ (support) me in
every way. It’s great that Anna from my school ______ (do) the course with me. At the moment we
________(practice) different driving manoeuvres. Anna ______ (find) them really difficult but she
______ (get) better and better. I ______ (think) we will both pass our driving test in March.
Bài 3. Dịch những câu sau sang tiếng Anh có sử dụng thì hiện tại tiếp diễn
1. Bố mẹ tôi đang tận hưởng kỳ nghỉ hè của họ tại Miami.
2. Họ đang uống cà phê với đối tác.
3. Nhìn kìa! Trời bắt đầu mưa!
4. Họ đang mua một vài chiếc bánh ngọt cho bọn trẻ ở nhà.
5. Em trai của bạn đang làm gì rồi?
6. Họ đang đi đâu vậy?
7. Có phải Peter đang đọc sách trong phòng không?
8. Bạn nên mang theo một chiếc áo. Trời đang trở lạnh đấy!
9. Lisa đang ăn trưa ở căng-tin với bạn thân của cô ấy.
10. Bố tôi đang sửa chiếc xe đạp của tôi.

Bài 4. Hoàn thành đoạn văn sau và chia động từ thích hợp
This is Mr.Blue. He ______ (be) a primary school teacher in the center city. He _________ (teach)
English and Maths. Now, he ________ (teach) English. He ________ (live) in Hanoi with his family at
present. He ________ (be) married to Lan, who is Vietnamese. They ______ (have) two children.
Although Mr.Blue ________ (speak) Vietnamese as well as English, he ________ (not/teach) Literatures.
Bài 5. Tìm và sửa lỗi sai trong câu
1. Somebody are climbing up this tree over there.
2. Lan is always going to school by bus.
3. The river flows very past at present.
4. Ly lives with some best friends until her brother can find a flat.