E10 - U4 - GRAMMAR: PRESENT TENSES

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

1. Right now, Jim .............. the newspaper and Kathy ............... dinner

• reads- has cooked          

• is reading- is cooking 

• reads- cooks

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

2. Every day I .............. up at 6 o’clock, .............. breakfast at seven o’clock and .............. for work at 8 o’clock

             

• get- eat- leave         

• have got- eaten- left 

• got- ate- left  

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

3. The team .............. a single match so far this season.

             

• doesn’t win        

• isn’t winning 

• hasn’t won

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

4. Up to now, the manager .............. a lot of information about his secretary.

 

             

• learned           

• has learned

• learns

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

5. Now my sister .............. a bicycle of her own.

           

       

             

• is having   

• has had

• has

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

6. Where is Mary? _ She .............. her homework in her room.

     

       

             

• does

• is making

• is doing   

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

6. 7. He .............. in the same house since 1975.

            

     

       

             

• 6. has lived

• 6. is living

• 6. lived 

Exercise 1: Choose the correct verb tense

6. 8. At present, the woman .............. an assistant

           

     

       

             

• 6. is

• 6. is being    

• 6. has been

Exercise 2: Give the right form of the verbs in brackets: Present tenses.

1. I'm sorry. I ( forget) …………………  that fellow’s name already.

Exercise 2: Give the right form of the verbs in brackets: Present tenses.

2. Jack (look) …………………  no trouble with my English lesson up to now.