A) Underline the correct form of the verb to complete sentences.

1) Dreams often help / are often helping people solve their problems.
2) When people see Andy for the first time, they think / are thinking he is David Beckham.
3) Jim is needing to / needs to practise if he wants to win the tennis tournament.
4) Why isn’t Greg at the party?
He is doing / does his homework.
5) Rob is always complaining / always complains about his job. He should do something about
it.
6) Mark prefers /is preferring to play football to basketball.
7) More and more people become / are becoming dependent on the Internet for their shopping.

B) Complete with PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS.

C) Complete with PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS.
 D) Complete the sentences with the words from the list.

turn over – turn on – look into – look forward – turn into – look up

1) I shouldn’t
______________ too much to see Grace at the party, she may not come anyway.
2) You are always missing the bus in the mornings! You should ____________ the bus times in
the local timetable.
3) There are a lot of problems about the violence cases in the schools. The Government has set
up a working party to ____________ the problem.
4) John is getting better at football. We think he will _________ a top-class player.
5) If you suspect a gas leak, do not strike a match or even __________ an electric light.
6) The thief was determined to ____________ a new leaf once he was released from prison.

E) Complete the text with words from the list. There are two extra words in the list that you
do not need to use.
turn into – negativity –generous - experts – shy – fascinating – negative – witnesses – reliability –
personality – unreliable – upsetting -

The desire to change 1) _______________ is not uncommon. 2) ________________ people might

wish they were more outgoing and talkative. Hot-tempered individuals might wish they could 3)
__________ cool people in overwhelming situations. Is it really possible to change your personality,
or are our basic personality patterns fixed throughout life? While self-help books or some 4)
_____________ often give plans you can follow to change your habits and behaviour, there is a
persistent belief that our underlying personalities are impossible to change. The Austrian
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud suggested that personality was largely set in stone by the tender age of
5. This means that if a person 5) _____________ a(n) 6) __________________ event in his early
childhood, this will affect him in his entire life and it will be really hard for him to erase it from his
memory. When we blame someone for being 7)_______________, maybe we need to take his
childhood into consideration. He may have grown up with dishonest people and as a result of that 8)
_______________ may not be so important for him. Or think about someone who is always
complaining. This can be really annoying. We must think that his 9) ______________ could be the
result of his childhood experiences. It is really 10) _______________ to find out that we could be
stuck with undesirable traits that hold us back from achieving our goals.