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PRESENT SIMPLE VS. PRESENT CONTINUOUS EXERCISES Past simple and past continuous
1. Complete each sentence. Use the words in brackets. Use present simple or
present continuous. B. Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or Past Continuous form of the
a) Richard (always, get up) ................................. before 7.00. verb in brackets
b) Hurry up! The bus (wait) .................................................. for us! 1. While Diana . (watch) her favourite television programme, there
c) Where (we, go) .......................................................... ? This is the wrong . (be) a power cut.
road! 2. Who . (drive) the car at the time of the accident?
d) My friends (not believe) .................................................................... my story. 3. I . (do) some shopping yesterday when I . (see)
e) Please be quiet! I (read) ............................................... a very interesting that Dutch friend of yours
book. 4. What exactly . (you/do) when I . (come) into
f) (like, Susan) ................................................................................. horror films? your office yesterday?
5. While I . (try) to get my car started, a man . (offer)
3. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Use to help me
the simple present or the present continuous tense. 6. Although it rained a lot, I . (enjoy) my holiday last year
1 My brother __________________________ (like) this CD very much. 7. I . (phone) you yesterday but you . (not answer).
2 He __________________________ (travel) in China this summer. What . (you/do)?
3 We __________________________ (go) to lunch now. Would you like to join
us? C. Below there is a short biography of Bill Gates. Complete the text using the verbs
4 We always __________________________ (visit) Grandma on Sundays. in the box either in the Past Simple or the Past Continuous.
5 In this photo, we __________________________ (play) volleyball on the
beach.
6 I __________________________ (play) tennis every day.
7 My father cant come to the phone now. He __________________________
(take) a shower.
8 My father __________________________ (work) as an accountant in a big Bill Gates story .. in 1955. He .. in Seattle, where he ..
company. with his parents and two sisters. His father .. a lawyer and his mother a
9 I think this pen __________________________ (cost) HK$8. teacher. When he was thirteen, he .. to become interested in computers
10 I cant play online games now. My brother __________________________ and the development of computer software. In 1972 he .. his first big
(use) the computer
profit of $4,200 when he .. timetable software to his school.
to do his homework.
11 A: ______________ you ___________________ (do) your homework now? Bill Gates .. to Harvard University and while he .. there he
B: Yes, I __________________________.
started Microsoft. It was obvious that the new business was going to be a great
12 This photo was taken when I was three. My father
__________________________ (carry) me on his shoulders. success so, in 1976, he .. after doing three years of a four-year course.
13 People ______________ always ___________________ (buy) new mobile Microsoft .. an enormous international company that employs 54,000
phones. people all over the world. Gates .. his wife, Melinda, in 1987 when she
14 Can you see Anna? She __________________________ (stand) at the bus .. for Microsoft. They got married in 1994 and now have two children.
stop.
15 ______________ you still ___________________ (watch) TV?