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1. Underline the most suitable verb form in each sentence.

a) What sort of work do you do/are you doing?

b) I can't talk now. I cook/I'm cooking the dinner.

c) What shall we have? Do you like/Are you liking fish?

d) Can I borrow this typewriter? Or do you use/are you using it?

e) What do the people here do/are the people here doing in the evenings?

f) Follow that bus. Then you turn/are turning left.

g) A lot of people think that the Sun goes/is going around the Earth.

h) Excuse me, do you read/are you reading your newspaper? Could I borrow it?

i) Are you waiting/Do you wait for the bus to Newcastle?

j) Andy is building/builds his own house in the country.

2. Put each verb in brackets into either the present simple or the present
continuous
a) There's nobody here, and the door's locked. What (we do) do we do now!

b) What (you look) are you looking at? (I wear) Am I wearing the wrong clothes?

c) I (look after) am looking after Jack's dog this weekend. (you want) Do you want to take it for a
walk?

d) Who (drive) is driving the Mercedes that's parked outside?

e) I (still have) still have a pain in my leg but it (get) is getting better.

f) Who (Sue dance) is Sue dancing with? That's not her brother, is it?

g) Harry always (look) looks untidy! He (wear) is wearing dirty jeans.

h) I (write) am writing in reply to your advertisement in the Daily News.

i) That plant I bought (not grow) is not growing very much. And I (water) am watering it every day.

j) Which hotel (you stay) are you staying in when you (come) come here?

3. Decide whether the verb form in italics refers to present or future time.
a) Where are you staying on Saturday night? Future

b) George retires at the end of next year. Future

c) What are we doing when the guests arrive? Future

d) I'm trying really hard to understand this book. Present


e) Wait for me here until I get back. Future

f) Sue is leaving in the morning. Future

g) I'm waiting for the bus. Present h) I'm off now and I'm taking the car. Present

i) They're showing a Woody Allen film on Channel 4 tonight. Future

j) I'm going for a walk this evening. Future

4. Write each verb in the -ing form, then complete the spelling rules below.

write → writing admit → admitting study → studying decide → deciding swim → swimming
annoy → annoying like → liking get → getting begin → beginning try → trying

a) If a word ends in vowel + consonant + -e, drop the -e and add -ing.
Example: write → writing, decide → deciding, like → liking

b) If a word ends in vowel + consonant and is a one-syllable word or stressed on the last syllable,
double the final consonant and add -ing.
Example: swim → swimming, admit → admitting, get → getting, begin → beginning

c) Words that end in -y, just add -ing without changing the -y.
Example: study → studying, try → trying, annoy → annoying

5 Rewrite each sentence. Use a verb from the box to replace the words in
italics.
a)This flower smells wonderful.
b) I feel you are behaving in a very silly way.
c) She is having a baby in the summer.
d) Nancy is thinking of moving to Scotland.
e) Don't go in. They are having a meeting.
f) I am seeing Janet this evening actually.
g) Good clothes are costing more and more.
h) I am tasting the soup to see if it needs more salt.
i) Helen is having a bath at the moment.
j) I think that you would be happier in another job.
6. Put each verb in brackets into either the present simple or the present
continuous.

Dear Aunt Jean,

I (1) am just writing to tell you how much I


(2) appreciate the money you sent me, and to tell you
how I (3) am getting on in my first term at university. Actually, I
(4) am really enjoying myself! I (5) am studying
quite hard as well, but at the moment I (6) am spending a lot of
time just making friends. I (7) am still staying with my friend
Sue, and I (8) am looking for somewhere of my own to live. Only
a few of the first-year students (9) live in college here,
and I (10) seem to be spending a lot of time travelling
backwards and forwards. I (11) go to lectures every
morning, and most afternoons I (12) study in the library.
In fact, I (13) am writing this letter instead of an essay on
Hamlet! I (14) think I'll buy some new clothes with the
money you sent. Everything (15) costs a lot here, and I
(16) am saving to buy a winter coat. It
(17) is getting really cold here in the evenings. I now
(18) know some other students and, generally speaking,
we (19) are having quite a good time socially! I
(20) am also learning to drive. See you soon.

Katherine

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