PRESENT SIMPLE/PRESENT CONTINUOUS

   

Practice the PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE

1.  Read the questions & answers about ALAN and ask and answer about JUDITH.

Questions: ALAN

1. What does Alan do?                                   1. Alan’s a lorry driver.
2. How old is Alan?                                        2. He’s twenty-five years old.
3. How many days a week does he work?     3. He works five days a week.
4. What time does he get up?                         4. He gets up at six o’clock every day.
5. What does he eat for breakfast?                 5. He eats an enormous breakfast.
6. What does he drink?                                   6. He drinks two cups of tea.
7. What does he do after breakfast?                7.Then he kisses his wife.
8. What time does he leave for work?            8.He leaves for work at half past six.
9. Where does he have lunch?                        9. He has lunch in a transport café.
10.What time does he come home?               10.He comes home at five o’clock.
11.Where does he go in the evening?            11.In the evening he goes to the pub.
12.What time does he go to bed?                  12.He goes to bed at ten o’clock.

Questions: JUDITH

1. ……………………………………………….              1. secretary
2. ……………………………………………….              2. 18
3. ………………………………………………..             3. 5 days a week.
4. ………………………………………………..             4. 7.30
5. ………………………………………………..             5. cornflakes
6. ………………………………………………..             6. orange-juice
7. ………………………………………………..             7. parents
8. ………………………………………………..             8. 8.15
9. ………………………………………………..             9. in the canteen
10. ……………………………………………….            10. home / 5.30
11. ……………………………………………….            11. evening classes
12. ……………………………………………….            12. eleven o’clock



2. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

Right now I am looking at a picture of Barbara. She is not at home in the picture. She is
at the park. She is sitting on a bench. She is eating her lunch. Some boys and girls are
running on a patch in the park. A squirrel is sitting on the ground in front of Barbara. The
squirrel is eating a nut. Barbara is watching the squirrel. She always watches squirrels when
she eats her lunch in the park. Some ducks are swimming in the pond in the picture, and
some birds are flying in the sky. A policeman is riding a horse. He rides a horse in the park
every day. Near Barbara, a family is having a picnic. They go on a picnic every week.


a. Where is Barbara in the picture?
b. What is she doing?
c. What is the squirrel doing in the picture?
d. What does Barbara always do when she has lunch in the park?
e. What are the ducks doing?
f. How often does the policeman ride his horse?
g. How often does the family have a picnic at the park?