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Ficha de Trabalho - Verb Tenses - Revision

The document is a study guide for a 9th grade English class on verb tenses. It provides examples and exercises to practice the present simple, present continuous, and distinguishing between the two tenses. Some key activities include completing sentences with the present simple of verbs, choosing the affirmative or negative form, making questions in the present simple, and completing sentences using either the present simple or present continuous appropriately.

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Ficha de Trabalho - Verb Tenses - Revision

The document is a study guide for a 9th grade English class on verb tenses. It provides examples and exercises to practice the present simple, present continuous, and distinguishing between the two tenses. Some key activities include completing sentences with the present simple of verbs, choosing the affirmative or negative form, making questions in the present simple, and completing sentences using either the present simple or present continuous appropriately.

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Bem Explicado

Centro de Explicaes Lda.


Ingls9 Ano Verb Tenses - revision

Nome: _________________________________________________ Data: ___/___/___

I Present Simple

A. Complete the sentences with present simple of the verbs in brackets.

I ______________ (get up) at 7.00 or 7.30 every weekday. I ___________ (have)


breakfast in the kitchen and then I _______________ (run) to catch the bus. My little
brother _______________ (stay) in bed until 10.00 or 11.00 because he ______________
(not go) to school.
My father _____________ (be) an office assistant and _____________ (work) for
a small company in the city. He _______________ (drive) to work every day and
sometimes ________________ (take) me to school by car.
My mother ________________ (not work) outside the house because she
____________ (be) a housewife. She ___________ (do) the housework and the
shopping. In the morning she ______________ (make) the beds, _____________ (tidy)
the house, ________________ (dust) the furniture, ____________ (put) a load of
washing in the washing-machine and then ______________ (hang) the washing on
the line to dry. She also ___________ (iron) and ____________ (cook) meals, and my
little brother and I sometimes ____________ (lay) the table.
However, we ___________________ (not wash) the dishes. ___________________
(you/ know) who washes the dishes at my house? My dad! He usually ___________
(do) that after dinner while my mother ____________ (read) my brother a story and
____________ (put) him to bed.
__________________ (you/ have) any of this at your house? What
_________________ (you/ do) every day and what __________________ (your parents/
do) for a living?

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B. Use the affirmative or the negative form of the Present simple.

1. Jerry works (work) at the supermarket every day after school.


2. Bees ________ (make) honey.
3. Our cats ____________ (not like) fresh meat. They __________ (prefer) canned
cat food.
4. Laura ______________ (not make) many mistakes.
5. I ____________ (buy) the newspaper every morning.
6. Our history teacher ______________ (stress) the Renaissance.
7. They almost always _____________ (understand) everything I say in English.
8. The kids often _______________ (go) to Wendys.
9. History _________________ (teach) us that weakness _________________
(encourage) aggression.
10. You usually ______________ (telephone) us too late.

C. Make questions in Present Simple.

1. Why/ you / not shop/ at Macys?


Why dont you shop at Macys?
2. Mark / always/ eat lunch in the company cafeteria?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?
3. Where / you / live?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?
4. Mary / speak English ?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?
5. How / he / get to school?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?
6. What / your friends / do on Saturday evening?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?
7. You / ever / study?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?
8. Water / always/ freeze at 0 centigrade?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?
9. Many birds / fly south / in winter?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?

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10. You / often / go to cinema?
__________________________________________________________________________ ?

II Present Continuous
A. Complete the sentences with the present continuous.

1. Nick _______________________ (mix) her guest a salad.


2. Stop the noise! I _________________________ (try) to sleep.
3. Where _____________ Nicky ________________ (go) now?
4. Who ___________________ (make)that ridiculous noise?
5. Why ____________ you _____________ (run) so fast?
6. I ___________________ (begin) to understand your position.
7. We ____________________ (have) a wonderful holiday here at the resort.
8. He ______________________ (lie) his face on the ground.
9. The guest _________________________ (sit) in the armchair.
10. Paul and John ______________________ (wash) the car at the moment.

III Present simple and Present Continuous


A. Complete the sentences with the present simple or continuous.

1. Max usually __________________ (have) lunch at the canteen but today he


_______________ (eat) at a restaurant with his workmates.
2. He _____________________ (finish) work at six oclock every day but today
he and a friend of his ___________________ (leave) earlier.
3. He ___________________ (try) to make a phone call to a costumer.
4. _______________________ (he / send) invoices to costumers every
weekday?
5. __________________________ (they / fill) reports every day?
6. He usually ____________________ (not talk) to his girlfriend in the morning
but he ___________________ (call) her right now because he needs to give
her some information.
7. Max and his friends _______________________ (work) hard right now.
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