Present continuous and present simple (/am doing and | do) | Pear Keren, 1) Lim having /thave a great time here in England. My university term | demPtstenting / doesn’t start wntil the autumn, 50°) Vm taking / L take the | opportunity to improve my English. 0) ’m staying / L stay with some English friends \ iho (=) are owning / own a farm. On weekdays i I’m catching / U catch @ bus into Torquay to 49 t0 language classes. >) L'm making / I make good progress, | think. My friends say [are saying my pronunciation is much better than when 1 arrived, and ») Lim understanding JL almost everything now. At weekends iio) L'm helping / [help on the farm. At the moment \.1) they're harvests | ‘harvest the corn and 2) they're needing / they need all the help they can get. Its quite hard work, but 1s) Lim Liking / 1 like it. And 1s; Um developing /- develop some strong muscles! 1s) Do you come / Are you coming to visit me at Christmas? (15\ I'm spending /_ L spend the winter holiday here at the farm. My friends 07) are wanting / want to mect | you and there's plenty of space. But you must bring your warmest clothes. is) Its getting ( | Zlt gets very cold here in the winter \ | ‘Let me know as soon as 15) you're deciding / you decide. And tell me what \ ‘you're doing / you do these days | Da you miss me? Love, Paul GREY Choose words from the box and make sentences as shown. Use a verb in the present continuous and any other words you need. st Mi-boyiriend 1 My father My-siter Mipelasomates My family Ourteacher My boss None of my friends Several of my colleagues Our next door neighbour My best friend My wife Our children 1 My boyfriend’s studying for hie.final.exame.. chis term. 2. My sister Je.morking at.home. this week 3. My classmates. aren't talking much... right now. - this year. at the moment this year. this week this term right now. wouausPut the verbs in the correct tense, present simple or present continuous. Leila Markham is an environmentalist, She is being interviewed on the radio by Tony Hunt, a journalist. TONY: So tell me, Leila, why is it important to save the rainforests? uatLA: There are a number of reasons. One is that many plants which could be useful in medicine (1) 4F@w.. (grow) in the rainforest. We 2) dent know... (not / know) all the plants yet ~ there are thousands and thousands of them. Researchers «) are.tryina. (try) to discover their secrets before they are destroyed. TONY: Isee. What other reasons are there? usiLa: Well, I'm sure you've heard of global warming? TONY: You mean, the idea that the WOFd (4)... --- (get) warmer? uaa: ‘That's right. The rainforests s) (have) an important effect on the earth’s climate. They 6) (disappear) at a terrifying rate and soon they will be gone. People (1. (not / do) enough to save them. TONY: But is global warming really such a problem? I (enjoy) warm sunshine. tea: Well, what 9) oa (happen) when you (19). (heat) ice? Itay , (melt) of course. OK, The polar tee caps 112) -suisans (Consist) of millions of tons of ice. If they «13) “ melt), the level of the sea will rise and cause terrible floods, Many scientists 114 . (believe) that temperatures (15) (already rise). We must do everything we can to prevent global warming, and that 116) so (include) preserving the rainforests! Tony: Thank you, Leila, and good luck in your campaign. usa: Thank you. Past simple and past continuous (/ did and / was doing) acces Use the words given to make sentences to match the pictures. Do not change the order of the words. Use only the past simple or past continuous, 1 2 Bry 3 MA Cathy / \ Cathy / phone / the post office / when Don / arrive / we / have / when the parcel / arrive coffee Cathy, phoned the pose office when... When Bon arrived we.were. having... ‘the parcel arrived, coffee,This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2paf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.