A) Which answers are correct?

1) To which verbs/auxiliaries can >not< be added?

am are can is play read speak


2) Which of the following words are used with the Simple Present (signal words)?
always at the moment every day now often sometimes yesterday


3) Which verb forms go with the Simple Present?
Infinitive Infinitive + -ed Infinitive + -ing Infinitive + s have + Infinitive + -ed


4) Which sentences/questions are in the Simple Present?
Do you speak Spanish? He's 15. I'm in room 201. She didn't help her mother.
She doesn't like milk. She drives a car. We are reading a book.



B) Negate the sentences.

Example: He works on the computer. - He does not work on the computer.

1) Kevin plays basketball. 2) Mr Smith teaches French.
3) He is from Spain. 4) The children know the answer.


C) Fill in the verbs in brackets into the gaps.

Example: He never writes a letter.

1) I often to the cinema. (to go) 2) Jill two children. (to have)

3) Andy's brother in an office. (to work) 4) She my sister. (to be)


D) Form questions.

Example: where / they / to have / breakfast Where do they have breakfast?

1) you / to walk / to school

2) how / Linda / to go / to the park

3) what / they / to eat / for breakfast

4) to be / Peter / from Austria


E) Which sentences/questions are correct?

1) Which question is in the Simple Present?
From where do you come? Where do you come from?
Where does you come from? Where dos you come from?


2) Which sentence is in the Simple Present?
He has read a book. He is reading a book. He read a book. He reads a book. He will read a book.


3) Which negative sentence is in the Simple Present?
We do'nt work in a bank. We does not work in a bank. We don't work in a bank.


4) Which negative sentence is in the Simple Present?
He do not reads a book. He does not read a book. He is not reading a book. He not read a book.


F) Fill in the correct verb forms.

1) Every morning my mother (get up, get ups, gets up) at 6 o'clock. 2) The girls (do, dos, does) the shopping.
3) Do you (like, likes, liks) milk in your tea? 4) Andy (wash, washes, washs) the family car.
F) Fill in the verbs in brackets into the gaps.

Example: He never writes a letter.

1) Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. (to be) 2) We sometimes around the shops. (to look)

3) They a nice garden. (to have) 4) I travelling. (to enjoy)