Example: every morning – What time do you get up every morning? – I get up at 7.30 every morning
Present Tenses
Experiences
Task 1. Fill in the chart/ the table.
| Present Simple · habits, routines and states · permanent situations around the present time · Laws of nature, scientific fact, instructions. · schedules and timetables · to tell a joke, relate the story of a film, book, play | Present Continuous · actions in progress at the time of speaking · temporary actions in progress around now · changes and developments · repeated actions with always, forever, constantly (often to show irritation and annoyance) · fixed arrangement for the near future |
1. Can’t you see? I am doing my homework.
2. He is forever making fun of what I say, it makes me so mad.
3. I save money to go to Thailand.
4. Ingrid Bergman plays a rich woman in 19th-century Australia who marries, becomes and alcoholic and then falls in love with her cousin
5. The match begins at 8.30 next Monday evening.
6. The population of our country is getting smaller every year.
7. The sky is blue in summer, but it is often white in winter.
8. These two weeks I am looking after my neighbor’s apartment.
9. Water boils when it is heated to 100 degrees.
Task 2. Open the brackets.
Write the correct form of the words in the brackets to complete the sentences. Use only the present simple or the present continuous.
Example:It’s nearly half past ten. __Do they always eat_ (they/always/eat) this late in Spain?
1. Carina ______________________ (enjoy) hospital drama so she ________________ (watch) it every week.
2. We ___________________ (take) a two-week winter holiday in the Alps every year.
3. I ______________________ (feed) the neighbor’s cat this week while she’s in hospital.
4. Then you __________________ (mix) all the ingredients together quickly and _______________ (put) the mixture in a hot oven for twenty minutes.
5. I can see the leaders. The three front runners ______________ (turn) the corner into the stadium complex now.
6. Sorry I haven’t phoned. I lost my address book – Oh, you _________________ (always/ lose) your address book! Why don’t you keep everything on the computer?
7. The part-time philosophy course _____________ (consist of) twenty evening lectures and five full-day seminars.
8. ___________________ (you/think) we should allow more than an hour to get to the station?
| Task 4. Choose one of the variants. |
1. I expect/am expecting you'll be tired after your long journey.
2. He dislikes/is disliking having to stand in the rain waiting for the bus to come.
4. This wine tastes/is tasting of strawberries.
5. I can't talk to you long. I expect/am expecting visitors at any moment.
6. I taste/am tasting the soup to see if it needs more seasoning.
8. How much does this plant cost/is this plant costing?
9. I suppose/ am supposing there is no other way of doing the job.
10. The price of the room includes/is including breakfast.
11. That seems/ is seeming like a good idea to me.
13. You look worried. - I think/ am thinking about how to tell my parents the bad news.
14. We admire/ are admiring the painting on the staircase as we came up. Where did you buy it?
15. As you can see, I weigh/ am weighing the flour on my kitchen scales as it's very important to have exactly 100g.
16. How long are you together? - We see/ are seeing each other for 2 months already.
17. The good news is that Pamela expects/is expecting the baby next summer.
Task 5. Correct the mistakes if any. Some sentences do not need correction.
| 1. I’m seeing my friend Jean tonight. | |
| 2. He commutes to Paris every day this week. | |
| 3. I’m thinking that they made a mistake. | |
| 4. I’m always forgetting to pay the milkman. | |
| 5. I am studying English here since August. | |
| 6. She’s studying hard for her exams at the moment. |
Task 8. Put the words in the right order.
1 He speaks to me (in the mornings/ nicely/ never) ____________________________________________________________
4. He is (at this time of day/ usually/ at the college) ____________________________________________________________
5. The postman comes (in the morning/ very early) ____________________________________________________________
6. We go swimming (on Saturdays/ generally/ at the local pool) ____________________________________________________________
Task 11. Ask your partner questions using the following time expressions:
Example: every morning – What time do you get up every morning? – I get up at 7.30 every morning.
| 1. for the past ten minutes. 2. right now 3. since 11 o’clock | 4. usually 5. every Sunday 6. twice this week | 7. tonight 8. yet 9. still | 10. already 11. ever 12. for four years |
Task 12. Complete the following sentences so that they were true about you:
| 1. Every day I … |
| 4. I’m always forgetting… |
| 6. I never… |
| 7. I’m + arrangement … |