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Unit 5: present tenses

A. ERROR CORRECTION
Identify the error in each of the following sentences and then make changes to correct the sentence.
1. Is this total including the new students? ___________ ____________
2. Excuse me, but do you wait for somebody? ___________ ____________
3. These potatoes are tasting a bit funny. ___________ ____________
4. I have a feeling that something goes wrong. ___________ ____________
5. Are you hearing anything from Wendy these days? ___________ ____________

B. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word
given.
1. Is this car yours?
 (you) Do________________________________________________car?
2. What's the price of the tickets, Jimmy?
 (much) How__________________________________________, Jimmy?
3. Sharon's in the bath at the moment.
 (a) Sharon____________________________________________at the moment.
4. Take all your possessions and walk slowly to the exit.
 (belongs) Take everything________________________________and walk slowly to the exit.
5. Neil is always forgetting his wife's birthday.
 (remembers) Neil____________________________________his wife’s birthday.
6. What's on your mind at the moment?
 (thinking) What________________________________________at the moment?
7. I'm seeing how wide the door is.
 (measuring) I’m________________________________________of the door.

C. GAP FILLING
Circle the lettered word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.
1. What sort of work do you do/are you doing?
2. I can't talk now. I cook/I'm cooking the dinner.
3. What shall we have? Do you like/Are you liking fish?
4. Can I borrow this typewriter? Or do you use/are you using it?
5. What do the people here do/are the people here doing in the evenings?
6. Follow that bus. Then you turn/are turning left.
7. A lot of people think that the Sun goes/is going around the Earth.
8. Excuse me, do you read/are you reading your newspaper? Could I borrow it?
9. Do you wait/Are you waiting for the bus to Newcastle?
10. Andy builds/is building his own house in the country.
D. PARAGRAPH WRITING
Write a paragraph of about 120 words on EITHER of the following topics:
 Describe a new experience you are having. Maybe you are living in a new country,
taking a new class, or working at a new job. Describe the situation. How is it different
from what you usually do? How do you feel in the situation?
 Weather often affects what people in different cultures do. Do a research on weather for
a place you know well. Find out what the weather is now. Then compare it to what the
weather usually is this time of year. Write a paragraph to report the weather and what
people usually do in this weather.
In your paragraph, use at least: 04 simple present sentences; 04 present continuous sentences
Underline ALL the verb tenses used in your paragraph
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