Grammar Practice Exercises [ 5 ] Upper Intermediate

5 - ] Grammar Practice Exercises

Upper Intermediate

3 . The Present Tense .

Present Simple and Present Continuous .

1 - ] Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present continuous .

Example

1 . Debbie --------------( work ) as an administrator at the university . She -----------------

( organize ) all the timetables and teaching schedules . She -----------------( work ) very long hours at the moment because it’s the start of the academic year but she ----------------( go )

on a short holiday at the end of the month . 

2 . Simon and Sylvia ------------------------(stay) in a cottage in the Yorkshire Dales this month . The cottage ----------------------(belong) to a cousin of Sylvia’s but the cousin is away : she --------------------(cycle) around Norfolk for a few weeks . Simon and Sylvia often --------

(use) the cottage when Sylvia’s cousin is away . They really --------------(enjoy) being in the middle of the countryside .

 3 . The International School for Languages ---------------------(do) very well at the moment . About two hundred students ----------------------(take) evening classes this term . Many of them ------------------(need) to learn a new language to improve their job prospects but some of them ---------------(learn) a new language purely for pleasure . The European languages

--------------- (be) very popular but Japanese and Russian ---------------(get) more popular too. The school -----------------(provide) good learning facilities and -----------------(organize) a range of study tours .

4 . The world population -------------------(still increase) rapidly . Many people in the world

--------------------( already starve) and many more -------------------(suffer) from malnutrition . The population ------------------(grow) fastest in the poorest countries where people ------------

(need) to have children to look after them in their old age and where many of their children

--------------------(die) at a very young age .

2 - ] Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present continuous .

Maggie and Jill , two friends , are talking at a party .

Example

M : Jill , how nice to see you . I don’t think (not think) each other since the party at Jim’s last year . How -------------------(you / get on ) ?

J : Oh , fine . Everything ---------------------(go) very well .

M : -----------------------------(you still / go out ) with Dave ?

J : No , I’m not , but I -------------------(go out) with someone called Jamie : I met him at my pottery class .

M : Is he here now ?

J : Yes look , he’s over there . He ----------------------(talk) to Charlotte .

M : Oh yes , I ---------------------------(see) him . -------------------(he / wear) a yellow jumper ?

J : Yes , that’s him .

M : Oh , he ------------------(look) really nice .

J : He is . I’ll introduce you to him when he --------------------(come) over here . So what about you ? How -------------------(life / treat) you ?

M : Not too badly . I -----------------(still / work) at that awful café . I ------------------(keep) looking for other jobs but the problem is that I -----------------------(feel) so tired when I -------------------(get in ) that I -----------------(not have) much energy to look through all the job ads and everything . Oh well , I ----------------------(suppose) something else will come up soon .

J : I ------------------(hope) so m. Oh look , Jamie -----------------(come over) here .---------------

(you / want) to meet him ?

M : Oh yes .