Here are the answers to the exercise in the present simple or present continuous tenses:
1. I play football on Saturdays.
2. I am practicing speaking English with my friends two hours a week at school.
3. Mary cooks for her grandmother on Sundays.
4. My baby is sleeping, keep silent!
5. Tarkan is singing at AKM this Saturday.
6. We are seeing a lot of violence on TV channels these days.
7. More and more people are using the Internet to catch up with the news and soap operas.
8. Big screen events, like Football and basketball are becoming more popular among ladies as they work in more professional jobs.
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Basic sentences using the present simple tense. You can watch an animation using these forms at http://soundgrammar.com/learn/L3-CEFR-A2/L3-01-present-simple.htm
Basic sentences using the present simple tense. You can watch an animation using these forms at http://soundgrammar.com/learn/L3-CEFR-A2/L3-01-present-simple.htm
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1. The Present Continuous Tense
Actions happening now – at the
moment of speak or around now – in
the near future
2. The Simple Present Tense
• We use simple present tense for permanent
situations (unchanging), or about that things that
happen regularly or all the time:
• My parents live in Ankara.
• I go to Istanbul every month.
• Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius.
• I play football on Saturdays
• My mother cooks excellent food.
• Billy loves Mary.
• They sometimes job early in the morning.
3. The Present Continuous Tense
• Subject + am/is/are + Verb (1) + ing
• I am reading the papers
• You are looking at the children
• He /She/It is watching the ball game on TV
• We are eating breakfast at the kitchen
• You are having fun at the party
• They are driving home
4. Questions
• Am I making too much noise ?
• Are you doing the homework ?
• Is he/she/it sleeping in the bed?
• Are we writing the answers?
• Are you putting the food in boxes ?
• Are they swimming close to the beach ?
5. Negatives
• I am not playing with you
• You are not studying hard
• She/he /it isn’t running to the door
• We are not (aren’t) doing anything at the
moment .
• You are not (aren’t) reading a lot these days.
• They are not (aren’t) travelling with us to
Samsun.
6. The Present Continuous
Actions happening right now Actions happening around now
• I am singing in my room. • We use present continuous
• She is listening to the latest news tense to talk about temporary
on the hurricane. actions and situations that are
going on now or ‘around now
• We are just passing by in front of ‘: before , during and after the
your house. moment of speaking.
• The kettle is boiling over the • What are you doing? I am
stove. writing letters.
• It is snowing hard hard. • He is working at IBM at the
• Look, he is jumping down the hill moment.
with his parachute. • More and more women are
• My father is wearing his pyjamas. going to football matches
• My head is aching . these days.
7. The Present Continuous Tense
Actions happening in the near
Actions happening around now future
• I am staying in a hotel near Karakoy at • What are you doing tomorrow
the moment. evening?
• I am taking karate lessons this semester.
• I am working part time at McDonald’s • Come and see us if you are
this semester. passing through Istanbul.
• I am staying with my friends until the • The British prime minister is
school closes.
• The economy in Turkey is getting better.
visiting Turkey next week.
• In the last 30 years more women are • We are having a big party for
getting richer and more powerful. the manager next Friday night
• More and more people are using at Ziya’s.
mobiles to get into internet nowadays.
• People in the Middle East are fighting
• I am taking a week off from my
for individual freedom and protesting job next month.
against the old regime administrators. • I am seeing my doctor at the
hospital tomorrow at 4 pm.
8. Non Progressive Verbs: verbs refer to states rather than actions;
some refer to mental states (know, think, believe) or to the use
of senses (smell, taste, see) Modal verbs (can, must have no
progressive forms
• Some verbs are never or hardly ever used in continuous forms:
• I like this music.
• I need to talk to you.
• I see what you mean – I am seeing the doctor at 10 o’clock.
• Feel/feeling: feel can be used to talk about one’s physical or mental sensations.
• Do you feel happy?
• She began to feel cold.
• To talk about feelings that are going on at a particular moment simple or progressive form can be used.
I feel fine. – I am feeling fine / How are you feeling (there is little difference in meaning)
• I feel we shouldn’t do it.
• What are you thinking about ? What do you think of the government? (have an opinion)
• I am seeing my boy friend tomorrow .
• I see what you mean (see=understand)
• I can see (ability)
• Why are you smelling the meat? Is it bad?
• Does the meat smell bad?
• I am just tasting the cake to see if it is ok!
• The cake tastes wonderful.
• The scales broke when I was weighing myself this morning.
• I weighed 68 kilos three months ago.
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9. Non progressive verbs
• These days more and more people are prefer/are preferring to take early retirement.
• The water tastes/is tasting better today.
• As I get older, I remember/am remembering less and less.
• I am liking it here more and more as time goes by
• I don’t like to go to a country without knowing something of the language and tradition.
• We can use “always, continually, etc” with progressive form to mean “very often”
• I’m always losing my keys.
• My grandmother is always giving children little presents.
• I am always meeting my upstairs neighbor in the supermarket (accidental, unplanned
meeting)
• When my cousins come to Istanbul from Frankfurt I always meet them at the airport.
• “Can” is often used with see, hear, feel, taste, smell, understand and remember with the
progressive meaning
• I can see Jane coming down the road
• Can you smell something burning.
10. Exercise: Fill the blanks with present simple or
present simple continuous
• 1. I ___________ (to play) football on Saturdays.
• I ________ (to practice) speaking English with my friends two hours a week at
school.
• Marry ________ (to cook) for her grandmother on Sundays.
• My baby _________ (to sleep), keep silent!
• Tarkan _________ (to sing) at AKM this Saturday.
• We __________ (to see) a lot of violence on TV channels these days.
• More and more people _________ (to use) the Internet to catch up with the news
and soap operas.
• Big screen events, like Football and basketball __________(to become) more
popular among ladies as they work in more professional jobs.
• Less and less people ___________ (to smoke) cigarettes with new government
regulations.
• We ___________ (to leave) Antalya on Monday and __________(to sail) to
Nicosia by a ferry boat from Mersin.
• Please don’t make so much noise. I ________________ (to study) .
• Why _____________ (to smile) at me like that ?