Настоящее простое или настоящее длительное время

The Present Simple (Indefinite) Tense vs. the Present Continuous (Progressive) Tense

Глаголы состояния

Stative Verbs

EXERCISES

Exercise 1.

Distribute the verbs into Action Verbs and Stative Verbs.

admit	come	hate	lose	remember	teach
agree	contain	hear	love	say	travel
agree	cost	help	mean	see	understand
appear	depend	jump	own	seem	want
believe	drink	laugh	play	sing	watch
belong	eat	learn	prefer	sleep	wish
call	fall	leave	rain	swim	work
care	forget	like	read	take	write

Action Verbs	Stative Verbs

Exercise 2.

Choose the correct form of the verb.

1.	He ____ (writes/ is writing) a new novel now.
2.	The farmer ____ (owns/ is owing) the land.
3.	I ____ (study/ am studying) economics at a business school.
4.	The instructor ____ (explains/ is explaining) the safety rules at the moment.
5.	I ____ (expect/ is expecting) they will be late.
6.	He ____ (wants/ is wanting) some more biscuits.
7.	It ____ (rains/ is raining) hard today.
8.	He ____ (hates/ is hating) the show they are watching on TV now.
9.	The box ____ (contains/ is containing) old books.
10.	I’m afraid I ____ (don’t remember/ am not remembering) where we met.

Exercise 3.

Choose the correct sentence in each pair.

1.	a) Are you having an English dictionary?
	b) Do you have an English dictionary?
2.	a) What are you thinking about?
	b) What do you think about?
3.	a) Wild flowers smell nice.
	b) Wild flowers are smelling nice.
4.	a) Tom looks out of the window.
	b) Tom is looking out of the window.
5.	a) I am thinking about the plan.
	b) I think about the plan.
6.	a) The food tastes delicious.
	b) The food is tasting delicious.
7.	a) I see my family next Sunday.
	b) I’m seeing my family next Sunday.
8.	a) I feel we should go home now.
	b) I am feeling we should go home now.

Exercise 4.

Complete the conversation. Put the verb into the correct form, the Present Continuous or the Present Simple.

Linda: Martin: Linda: Martin: Linda: Martin: Linda: Martin Linda: Martin Linda:

Hi, Martin What 1.____ you ____ (look) at? Oh, hi! These are photos of me when I was a child. Oh, look at this one. I 2.____ (think) you look lovely, Martin. I 3.____ (have) some more photos here. Look at this. Why such a big jacket? It was my brother’s. That’s why it 4.____ (not fit) properly. Oh, I 5.____ (see). And you 6.____ (have) your tea here. And in this one you 7.____ (think) about something very serious. This is a photo of the city I 8.____ (come) from. Oh, that’s nice. And I caught this fish, look. It 9.____ (weigh) about half a kilo. What a nice little boy!

Exercise 5.

Are the underlined verbs right or wrong? Correct them where necessary.

1.	Can you hear those people? What do they talk about?
2.	Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
3.	The water boils. Can you turn it off?
4.	We aren’t going to the theatre very often.
5.	I read a newspaper at least once a week.
6.	Sonia and Dan do quite well at school at the moment.
7.	Helen is talking on the other phone right now.
8.	Let’s go out. It doesn’t rain now.
9.	We are usually growing vegetables in our garden.
10.	Normally I finish work at five.

Exercise 6.

A. Complete this postcard using the correct form of the verbs on the right.

Greetings from Scotland! George and I 1.____ something different this month. We’re on the banks of Loch Ken in south west Scotland in Galloway Activity Centre. People 2.____ here every summer to learn more about their hobbies and interests. I 3.____ photography and tennis this week and George 4.____ about computers. We 5.____ up at half past seven every morning and 6.____ lessons from nine to half past twelve. We 7.____ lunch at one, and then there are more lessons. So it’s hard work. But I 8.____ it here. We 9.____ a super time. It’s half past seven in the evening now, and we 10.____ out on the banks of Loch Ken not far from the Center. The weather is fine. See you soon. Love, Kate

do come do, learn get do, have like, have sit

B. Imagine that you are at the holiday camp now. Write a postcard to an English friend. Say what you do every day on holiday and what you are doing at the moment.

Exercise 7.

Work in pairs. Write the names of five important people in your life, like this: Andrew, Boris, Lisa, Olga, Nick. Ask and explain what these people do/ what they’re doing at the moment, like this:

Model:	SA: Who is Andrew?
	SB: He is my elder brother.
	SA: Where does he work?
	SB: He doesn’t work. He is a student. And now he’s preparing for his exams.