Exercise III. Choose the correct form of the verbs: Simple or Continuous.

Control work

Exercise I. Write the correct forms of the verbs in brackets to complete the sentences. use onle the present simple or the present continuous.

1. Japanese cooking (not use) a lot of dairy food.

2. Sir Paul McCartney (stay) in Waldorf Astoria on this visit to New York.

3. I (feed) the neighbour’s cat this week while she’s on a business trip.

4. A: Which colour (prefer, you), red or blue?

B: I (like) blue better than red. Why?

A: According to the magazine article I (read) right now, people who (prefer) blue to red (be) calm and (value) honesty and loyalty in their friends. Preference for the color red (mean) that a person (be) aggressive, (love) excitement.

B: Oh, that (sound) like a bunch of nonsense to me.

5. Then you (mix) all the ingredients together quickly and (put) the mixture in a hot oven for twenty minutes.

1. A: (Believe, you) in flying saucers?

B: What (talk, you) about?

A: You know, spaceships from outer space with alien creatures aboard.

B: In my opinion, flying saucers (exist) only in people’s imagination.

7. I can see the leaders. The three front runners (turn) the corner into the stadium complex now.

8. Roger Federer certainly (play) his best tennis at the moment.

9. A: (You, see) that man over there?

B: Which man? That man in the brown jacket?

A: No, I (talk) about the man who (wear) the blue shirt.

10. A: What (you, think) about every night before you fall asleep?

B: I (think) about all the pleasant things that happened during the day. I (think, not) about my problems.

11. A: A penny for your thoughts!

B: Huh?

A: What (you, think) about right now?

B: I (think) about English grammar. I (think, not) about anything else right now.

A: I (believe, not) you.

B: But it’s true!

12. This new Ancient World History Course (consist) of twenty evening lectures and five full-day seminars.

Exercise II. Complete the profile of Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) with the verbs in brackets in the correct Grammar tense.

“Rowan (to be) very shy with a rubbery face, just like the one he has now,” says his former headmaster. “The other boys (to make) him pull funny faces. I’m sure they (to be) imitations of me and my colleagues,” adds headmaster Grove.

Rowan (to be born) in 1955, the youngest of three sons. By the time he was thirteen, he (to win) a scholarship to a private school. After he (to study) there for a while, he got involved in acting. By the time he was seventeen, he (to act; already) in a play at the Edinburgh Festival. His teachers (to predict) a future in acting, but despite this, Rowan still (not; to plan) a career in entertainment.

He eventually (to go) to Oxford to do a science degree. He (previously study) electronic engineering at Newcastle University and (to believe) that was there his future lay. But while he (to study) at Oxford, he (to meet) a group of friends who are his partners to this day.

A happy accident finally unlocked Rowan’s talents while he (to practise) a script in 1976. He (to play) around pulling faces for ten minutes in front of a mirror when he realized what he (to do). “I discovered my face,” he said later. John Lloyd, a BBC producer, says, “It was one of those things which happen very rarely in your life, when you realize you are in the presence of genius. I (to be sure) he would be more famous than Chaplin.”

Exercise III. Choose the correct form of the verbs: Simple or Continuous.

1. I have read / have been reading a lot recently. I have read / been reading ten books in the last week.

2. A lorry went past / was going past and splashed me when I stood / was standing on the side of the road.

3. When she arrived I washed / was washing the car. After she left, I finished / was finishing the job.

4. I hardly slept all night because the dogs barked / were barking all the time. Every time I fell asleep, one of them barked / was barking and wake me up.

5. I stay / am staying with my brother because my flat is painted / is being painted.

6. His clothes got / were getting very dirty because he had worked / had been working in the garden.

7. Pandas live / are living in bamboo forests in China but their numbers go down / are going down very rapidly because people destroy / are destroying the forests.

8. The birds sang / were singing and the sun shone / was shining. It was a lovely day.

9. I had finished / had been finishing cooking when she arrived.

10. He has worked / has been working on that book for a long time. It’ll be the third book he has written / has been writing.

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