Упражнения на отработку времен системы Present

1. Open the brackets

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.

2. Fill in a right form of the verb: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous.

to work

1. I … only for 3 days this week.

2. Vicky … in an Italian restaurant.

3. The radio … now.

4. We … in the garden since morning.

to cook

1. Mum … lunch at the moment.

2. I … roast chicken for 2 hours.

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.

3. Make sentences negative and make questions.

1. He usually leaves work at 5 p.m.

2. We are enjoying the party.

3. Mary has just met my boss.

4. I’ve been writing this poem for a week.

5. They like watching TV quizzes.

6. That waiter has been speaking on the phone since 2 o’clock.

7. You have broken my notebook.

8. The train is going too slow.

9. I am playing billiards with my brother now.

10. Lara lives with her parents in Madrid.

4. Choose the right variant.

1 The boy ___________his homework and now he _________-TV.

a) already has done, watches

b) already does, has watched

c) has already done, is watching

2. They___________ about Russian traditions since the beginning of the lesson.

a) have been talking

b) are talking

c) talk

3. This is the best conference I ________.

a) am

b) have ever been to

c) ever have been to it

4. The postman usually __________ at 9 in the morning. It is half past 9 now but he ___________

a) comes, has not come yet

b) comes, has not been coming

c) is coming, has not come yet

5. They__________ the walls and they ___________nice.

a) have painting, are looking

b) have painted, look

c) have been painting, look

6. The economic situation in the world is already bad and it __________worse.

a) is getting

b) gets

c) have gotten

5.  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.

6. Translate from Russian into English

1. Он смотрит телевизор с самого утра.

2. Завтра у меня урок английского в 8:00.

3. Воздух в городе становится все более и более грязным.

4. Я потерял кошелек.

5. Её волосы грязные. Она красила дом весь день.

6. Ты постоянно что-то теряешь!

7. Ты пишешь сочинение уже два часа.

8. Я хожу в бассейн три раза в неделю.

9. Папа чинит машину с самого утра.

10. Он сломал ногу.