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    The document provides a letter written to an editor expressing concern about too many changes occurring in the writer's country and small town. It discusses how a favorite restaurant was replaced by a burger place and how town leaders do not seem to care about preserving local culture. The writer thinks of starting an action group and will appear on a TV show on Friday to raise awareness about the important issue before it is too late. The second part provides a fill-in-the-blank exercise with 20 sentences using the present simple or present continuous tenses.

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    The document provides a letter written to an editor expressing concern about too many changes occurring in the writer's country and small town. It discusses how a favorite restaurant was replaced by a burger place and how town leaders do not seem to care about preserving local culture. The writer thinks of starting an action group and will appear on a TV show on Friday to raise awareness about the important issue before it is too late. The second part provides a fill-in-the-blank exercise with 20 sentences using the present simple or present continuous tenses.

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    Pres Simple Vs Pres Cont

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    Dayanna Vikingova
    The document provides a letter written to an editor expressing concern about too many changes occurring in the writer's country and small town. It discusses how a favorite restaurant was replaced by a burger place and how town leaders do not seem to care about preserving local culture. The writer thinks of starting an action group and will appear on a TV show on Friday to raise awareness about the important issue before it is too late. The second part provides a fill-in-the-blank exercise with 20 sentences using the present simple or present continuous tenses.

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    Fill in the correct form of the PRESENT TENSE (simple and progressive)

    Dear Editor!

    I _____________________ (WRITE) this letter because it _____________________ (SEEM) to me


    that far too many changes _____________________ (TAKE) place in my country these days, and, as a
    result, we _____________________ (LOSE) our identity.

    I _____________________ (LIVE) in a small town but even this town _____________________

    (CHANGE) before my eyes. For example, town authorities _____________________ (BUILD) a burger

    place where my favourite restaurant used to be. Our culture _____________________ (BELONG) to

    everybody, and I _____________________ (NOT UNDERSTAND) why the town leaders

    _____________________ (NOT DO) to preserve it. They simply _____________________ (NOT


    CARE).

    In fact, I _____________________ (THINK) of starting an action group. I _____________________

    (APPEAR) on a TV show on Friday evening to make people aware of how importance this issue is. It’s
    time for us to start doing something before it _____________________ (GET) too late.

    Fill in the blanks with the Present Simple or Present Continuous:

    1. Ted ____________ (take) a shower right now.

    2. What ____________ (we / have) for dinner tonight?

    3. My brother __________________ (have) a daughter and a son.

    4. I __________________ (not / solve) some math problems at the moment.

    5. My grandfather often _________________ (come) over for dinner at the weekends.

    6. My school _________________ (begin) at nine every day.

    7. What time ________________ (you / wake up) on weekdays?

    8. What ________________ (you / do) tomorrow night?

    9. I usually ____________ (not / work) on Sundays but today I _______________ (work).

    10. She _______________ (not / sleep) now, she _______________ (study).


    11. How often _________________ (you / review) your lessons?

    12. I _________________ (not / go) on holiday this summer.

    13. Can you speak slowly please, I ___________________ (not / understand) you.

    14. She _________________ (work) as a secretary in a big company.

    15. Miss Clara __________________ (take) a violin class every Wednesday.

    16. It _______________ (be) usually so humid here in summer time.

    17. Don’t forget to take your coat, it ___________________ (be) cold outside.

    18. This flower __________________ (smell) so good.

    19. That coat over there ___________________ (not / belong) to me.

    20. Where _________________ (you / live)?

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