37223 present tenses activities

PRESENT TENSES
1) Fill in the blanks with am/is/are/do/don’t/does/doesn’t
1. Excuse me _____ you speak English?
2. Have a cigarette. No, thank you. I _____ smoke.
3. Why ____ you laughing at me?
4. What ____ she do? She’s a dentist.
5. I ____ want to go out. It ____ raining.
6. Where ____ you come from? From Canada.
7. How much ____ it cost to send a letter to Canada?
8.I can’t talk to you at the moment. I ____ working.
9. George is a good tennis player but he _____ play very often.
2) Put the verb in present continuous or present simple
1. Excuse me, ______________ (you/speak) English?
2. Tom _________________ (have/shower) at the moment.
3. They _____________ (not/watch) television very often.
4. Listen! Somebody _______________ (sing)
5. She’s tired. She ____________ (want) to go home.
6. How often ____________________ (you/read) a newspaper?
7. Excuse me, but you __________________ (sit) in my place. Oh I’m sorry.
8. I’m sorry. I ___________________ (not/understand). Please speak more slowly.
9.Where are you Roy? I am in the office. I ___________________ (read)
10. What time __________________ (she/finish) work every day?
11. You can turn off the radio. I _____________________ (not listen) to it.
12. He ____________________ (not/usually/drive) to work. He usually ________ (walk)
3) Put the verbs into the correct form (present perfect simple).
1. I(not / work) ___________________ today.
2. We(buy) _____________a new lamp.
3. We(not / plan) ______________our holiday yet.
4. Where(be / you) ________________ ?
5. He(write) ________________ five letters.
6. She(not / see) ________________ him for a long time.

7. (be / you) __________________ at school?
8. School(not / start) _______________ yet.
9. (speak / he) _________________ to his boss?
10. No, he(have / not) ____________________ the time yet.
4) Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses
(present perfect or present perfect continuous)
Robin: I think the waiter (forget)___________us. We (wait) ____________ here for over half
an hour and nobody (take) ____________ our order yet.
Michele: I think you're right. He (walk) _____________ by us at least twenty times. He
probably thinks we (order, already) ________________.
Robin: Look at that couple over there, they (be, only) ____________ here for five or ten


minutes and they already have their food.
Michele: He must realize we (order, not) _______________ yet ! We (sit) ______________
here for over half an hour staring at him.
Robin: I don't know if he (notice, even) ________________ us. He (run) _______________
from table to table taking orders and serving food.
Michele: That's true, and he (look, not) _________________ in our direction once.