Put the verb into the correct form.

Put the verb into the correct form.

Prefer hate need mean believe

Like love want know understand remember depend

Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present continuous.

Read the rules

Grammar

Present Simple vs. Present Continuous

Present Simple	Present Continuous
1. Things in general, something true in general. The earth goes round the sun. 2. Something that happens all the time or repeatedly. We often eat out. 3. Permanent situation. I live in London. 4. Timetable. This train arrives at 5 p.m.	1. In the middle of doing something (you have started it and haven’t finished yet). He is driving now. 2. Thing happening in a period around now. You are working hard today. 3. Temporary situation. I’m living with my friends until I find a flat. 4. Future arrangements. I’m having a party on New Year’s Eve. 5. Changes happening around now. It’s getting dark.

a) A: ______________ (you/do) anything interesting this weekend?

B: No, I _______________ (study) for my Biology exam.

b) Let’s go out. It ___________ (not/rain) now.

c) Can you drive? I________ (learn). My father ________ (teach) me.

d) Are you ________ anything interesting this weekend? What?

e) Who _________ (cook) the dinner? It smells great!

f) My parents __________ (come) to stay with us every Christmas.

We do not use these verbs in the present continuous:

1. It (to take) me forty minutes to get to school.

2. Hello, Pete, where you (to go)? — I (to hurry) to school.

3. When your lessons (to begin) on Mon­day? — They (to begin) at nine o'clock.

4. Where your sister (to be)? — She (to do) her homework in the next room.

5. It usually (to take) me an hour to do my written exercises.

6. Where Boris (to be)? I (to look) for him. - - He (to have) dinner.

7. In the evening I often (to go) to see my friends.

8. On Sunday we sometimes (to go) to the cinema or to a disco club.

9. Andrew (to get) up very early as he (to live) far from school, he (to be) never late.

10. It (to be) six o'clock in the evening now. Victor (to do) his homework. His sister (to read) a book. His mother and grandmother (to talk).

11. I (to write) a letter to my grandmother who (to live) in Novgorod. I (to write) to her very often.

One Sunday Agnes and her mother went to the zoo. Agnes was very excited. She was interested in everything she saw. "Mother, look," she said. "There (to be) a mon­key in this cage. It (to eat) an apple. Now it (to give) a bite to another monkey. I (to think) mon­keys (to like) apples very much." "Yes, dear," said her mother. "Now I (to want) to go and see the lions and tigers. Where they (to live), mother?" "In that big house over there. Come along." Agnes enjoyed herself very much in the lion house. "Mother," she said, "the tiger (to want) a drink: it (to go) to the dish of water there in the corner. And the lion (to look) right at me. You (to think) it (to want) to eat me up? When the lions and tigers (to have) their dinner, mother?" "The keepers (to bring) them great pieces of meat every day at four o'clock. And they (to make) a big noise before their dinner time, so everybody (to know) they (to be) hungry."

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