Practice makes perfect
The present progressive tense
I. Em hãy chia động từ ở thì hiện tại tiếp diễn.
1. Miss Nhung (ride) her bike to work.
2. you (wait) for your teacher?
3. I (play) video games and my sister (watch) TV
4. She (not travel) to the hospital by bus, but she
(drive).
5. We (sit) in the living room.
6. What the farmer (do) now? - They (unload)
vegetables.
7. She (not work), she (swim) in the river.
8. He (teach) his boy to ride.
9. The aeroplane (fly) at 2.000 meters.
10. What Tom (do) now? -He (clean) his shoes.
11. It (rain)? -Yes, It (rain) very hard and you can’t go
out.
12. It is a lovely day. The sun (shine) and the birds
(sing).
II. Em hãy gạch chân đáp án đúng.
1. Look! Thomas is bringing / brings his little sister to
class.
2. My older sister is often listening / often listens to
pop music.
3. We are writing / write an exercise now.
4. Mmm! Mum is making / makes a cake.
5. Our teacher is giving / gives us a test every month.
6. Listen! Dad is reading / reads a story to Ricky.
7. Mr. Michael usually is growing / grows roses in his
garden.
8. They are building / build a new house on the hill
now.
9. Maria is drinking / drinks milk every morning.
10. Look! Nick is running / runs down the hill.
III. Em hãy chia động từ ở thì hiện tại đơn hay
thì hiện tại tiếp diễn.
1. She (read) at the moment.
2. I (not watch) television every night
3. I (not watch) television at the moment.
4. They (not go) to the cinema very often.
5. (Mary and Susan drive) to the office every day?
6. The children (go) to bed at eight o'clock.
7. (They work) in the restaurant at the weekends?
8. I (have) coffee for breakfast every day.
9. My brother (work) in a shoe store this summer.
10. She (go) to school every day.
11. We (do) this exercise at the moment.
12. Miss Helen (read) a newspaper now.
13. Mary (love) ice-cream.
14. It (rain) much in the summer. It (rain) now.
15. Two and two (make) four.
16. Bad students never (work) hard.
17. (You listen) to the radio now?
18. I (not get up) at seven o'clock every morning.
19. Mary (not work) today because it’s Sunday.
20. We always (do) our exercises carefully.
21. I (need) some money for my textbooks.
22. (Your parents sit) in the garden now?
23. Be quiet. The baby (sleep).
24. It (be) very cold now.
25. Tom (like) to go to the museums.
IV. Em hãy tìm và sửa lỗi trong mỗi câu sau.
1. My mother is going to the market with my.
2. Mr. Minh rides his bike to work at the moment.
3. How many homework does Lan have every day?
4. I’m twenty one year old and I am a student.
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5. A lot of my friends play soccer, but not much of them
play tennis.
6. Minh and his father are going to plant trees in the
garden now.
7. Are they many students in your class?
8. She is listening to music when she is at home.
9. We are never playing soccer in winter.
10. He still does his work now.
V. Chon từ thich hợp để điền vào chỗ trống.
family
talking
comes
are
watches
go
cleaning
market
My sister and I (1) _________ to school in the
morning and come home in the afternoon. Our mother
goes to the (2) __________ at half past seven. She gets
food for the (3) ________. Our father (4) ________
home at 6.00 p.m everyday. He (5) ________ television
in the evening. Today is Sunday. We are all at home,
and we are (6) _________ our house. We are working
and (7) __________. We (8) __________ having a
good time at home.
VI. Make question for the underlined words.
1. We speak Vietnamese
2. Lan comes from Vietnam.
3. My father is 60 years old.
4. There are 13.6 million people in Mexico City.
5. We are cutting down the forests because we need
more land.
6. Lan is 1.50 meter tall.
7. It is cool in the fall in my country.
8. We are going to visit Hue next summer vacation.
VII. Fill in the blanks with question words:
1. __________ do they go to the movies?
- Twice a month.
2. __________ language does he speak? - English
3. __________ is his nationality?- Chinese
4. __________ are you going to do this summer
vacation? - I am going to visit Ha Noi.
5. __________ thick is the Great Wall of China?
6. __________ are they going now?
- To the movies.
7. __________ is the capital of Vietnam?
8. __________ milk do you want?
VIII. 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.
1. Where is Barbara in the picture?
2. What is she doing?
3. What is the squirrel doing in the picture?
4. What does Barbara always do when she has lunch in
the park?
5. What are the ducks doing?
6. How often does the policeman ride his horse?
7. How often does the family have a picnic at the park?
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