Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Present Simple and Continuous
Present Simple and Continuous
II. Put the words in brackets into the Present Simple or the Present Continuous
Tense.
1) Where…you…(to drive) now? – I …(to drive) to L’viv. My friend … (to live) there.
He … (to get) married now and I … (to want) to congratulate him and his bride.
2) … you … (to know) that man over there? - … he (to be) the man who … (to talk) to a
group of people? – Yes. He … (to be) a famous director and he … (to make) a new
film in our town these days.
3) As for me, I … (to prefer) to watch films in the cinema. It … (to seem) to me acting in
a film … (not to be) much fun, but hard work.
4) What … Simon … (to do) for living? – He … (to run) an advertising agency. He …
(to enjoy) his work and the agency … (to bring) him a lot of money. By the way, his
agency … (to expand) rapidly and Simon … (to think) of engaging new employees.
5) Why … you… (to weigh) yourself? – I … (to want) to know how much I … (to
weigh). You … (to see), I … (to eat) too little these days.
6) John often … (to send) e-mail letters to his friends abroad. Paul … (to write) an e-mail
letter to his friend in Canada now.
7) We attend language courses three times a week.
8) The secretary … (to be) busy now. She … (to prepare) the documents for the
conference.
9) The professor … (not to examine) patients now. He … (to give) a lecture to the
students now. He usually … (to examine) the patients in the morning.
10) The article … (to contain) the results of important researches.
11) Most oils … (to boil) at 200 – 300 C.
12) … doctors … (to use) antibiotic drugs to fight viruses? – No, drugs … ( not to
work) against viruses.
13) We … (to wait) a train now. The train … (to arrive) at 6 o’clock.
14) Peter and Tim … (to go) fishing at the moment. They always … (to go) fishing
together.