Present tenses test

1. Поставьте глагол в форму Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect или Present Perfect Continuous.

to work

1. Vicky … in an Italian restaurant.

2. I … only for 3 days this week.

3. The radio … now.

4. We … in the garden since morning.

to cook

1. I … roast chicken for 2 hours.

2. Mum … lunch at the moment.

3. He already … seafood pasta.

4. We … Japanese food at weekends.

to read

1. Bob … this book since last year.

2. I usually … detective stories.

3. Dad … all the newspapers today.

4. She … a fairy-tale to her son now.

2. Преобразуйте предложения, изменив время и используя слова в скобках вместо выделенных слов.

1. I never eat mushrooms. (now)

2. Mrs. Sanders is closing her shop now. (already)

3. He smokes every half an hour. (since 2005)

4. Every summer we visit our relatives in France. (twice this year)

5. Tom has been wearing glasses for 2 years. (every day at school)

6. We have just built a sand castle on the beach. (now)

Упражнение 3. Раскройте скобки, употребив одно из настоящих времен.

1. What time _____________ (the meeting/end)?

2. Tomorrow I _____________ (fly) to Moscow to visit my aunt Sally.

3. Right now he _______ (talk) on the phone.

4. The Earth __________ (go) round the Sun.

5. I _________ (look) for my camera for an hour.

6. Could you close the window? I _____________ (freeze)

7. The man __________ (paint) the walls all day long.

8. The coffee ___________ (smell) good.

9. At the moment we ___________ (take) a walk around a beautiful village.

10. We _____________ (not/finish) our history project yet.

11. Kim _____________ (never/be) abroad.

12. School always _______  (close) for Easter holidays.

13. I’m exhausted. I _____________ (train) my stomach muscles all morning.

14. What _____________ (usually/you/do) in your free time?

15. Look! Your mum ____________ (water) tomatoes in the vegetable garden.

Упражнение 4.  Use Present Simple, Present Continuous or Present Perfect.

Hello Nancy

It (1) _________ (be) time since my last letter to you. I (2) ____________ (still/work) at ABS and the company (3) _____________ (do well). This is very fortunate as many of my friends (4) ___________ (lose) their jobs. Our savings (5) _____________ (take) a disastrous dive because of the economy. I (6) ____________ (know) the situation everywhere is difficult and I (7) __________ (be) happy I still have a job. My friend Michael and his wife Georgia (8) ______________ (now, live) in Virginia. Michael (9) ______________ (finish) studying massage therapy. He (10) __________ (run) a small clinic in partnership with another woman. He and Georgia (11) _____________ (look) for a full-time job, though, as they (12) _____________ (lose) money also. As I say, many people (13) __________ (have) a hard time now.