Exercise 1. Complete the sentences. Use the Present Continuous or the Present Simple.

teach have drive have leave

It’s 7.30 a.m. Suzanne Wells is in her kitchen at home. She ⁽¹⁾ ’s having breakfast. She ⁽²⁾ ________ breakfast at this time every morning. She ⁽³⁾ ________ home at 8.30 a.m. every day and ⁽⁴⁾ ________ to work. Suzanne is a teacher. She ⁽⁵⁾ _________ at a school in Canberra, Australia.

Exercise 2. a) Who is who in the office? Read about people.

Lillian is talking on the phone at the moment, and Sam and Carlaare looking at some posters. Benny is reading a report. Bruceand Loretta are working on their computers, and Ed is doing some photocopying.

b) What are they doing in the office? Ask and answer.

e.g. Is Benny working on his computer?

– No, he isn’t. He’s reading a report.

1. Benny/work/on his computer? 2. Bruce and Loretta/talk/on the phone? 3. Ed/do/some photocopying? 4. Lillian/read/ a report? 5. Sam and Carla/look/at some posters?

Exercise 3. Where are you now? What is happening? Complete the questions. Give true answers.

e.g. Are you studying at home now? – Yes, I am. or No, I’m not.

1) you/study/at home now? 2) Where/you/sit?

3) What/you/wear? 4) the sun/shine?

Exercise 4. Choose one of the following time expressions to add to each of these sentences so that they are true for you.

never hardly ever rarely often usually always occasionally sometimes nearly always

1. I sometimes watch TV in the evening. 2. I ________ take a holiday in the summer. 3. I ________ go shopping at the weekend. 4. I ________ do the cooking at home. 5. I ________ do the washing up. 6. I ________ go out somewhere at the weekend. 7. I ________ go to bed before eleven.

Exercise 5. Choose the correct tense, PRESENT SIMPLE or PRESENT CONTINUOUS, in the following sentences.

1. I’ m sleeping/sleep on Nico’s sofa until I find a place of my own.

2. I’ m only working /only work there for a couple of months because I’m going abroad in the summer.

3. If you aren’t listening/don’t listen to the radio, why don’t you switch it off?

4. His only bad habit is that he talks/is talking too loudly.

5. So in the first scene we see/are seeing him getting up and then he goes out/is going out and meets/is meeting a strange woman.

6. You make/are making goulash using meat, vegetables and paprika.

7. I never do anything I feel/am feeling is against my principles.

8. He appears/is appearing to be very friendly but I don’t know him very well.

9. There’s nobody at the door; you just hear/are hearing things.

10. I’m thinking of doing a postgraduate degree – what do you think/are you thinking? Is it a good idea?

Exercise 6. Make the following sentences negative. Ask questions to the underlined parts.

1. He runs his own business from home.

2. The lecturer is explaining some new material now.

3. Margie is typing very fast.

4. Our secretary typesa great number of letters every day.

5. I get a bank statement at the start of every month.

6. They are outselling us in all sectors of the market at present.

7. Banks are lending more money to encourage business.

8. Today white collar employees make up about 50 percent of a manufacturing company’s workforce.

9. A shortage of raw materials and components is forcing many industries to close down.

10. Banking is becoming an increasingly high-tech business.

11. The South depends more on small and medium-sized business for jobs than on large corporations.

12. Women run 25 percent of existing small businesses.

13. We are studying the effect of the fall in the dollar’s value at the moment.

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