Unit 1 Grammar Practice-Reinforcement
Unit 1 Grammar Practice-Reinforcement
Unit 1 Grammar Practice-Reinforcement
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State verbs
4 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 I don’t know / ’m not knowing how to play this game. Can you explain it?
2 Do you have / Are you having a laptop or a desktop computer?
3 You are very quiet. What do you think / are you thinking about?
4 I understand / am understanding your problem.
5 I love / am loving chocolate. It’s my favourite snack.
6 We haven’t / aren’t having problems with our internet connection.
7 Jonathan thinks / ’s thinking about getting a new computer and printer.
8 Do we want / Are we wanting to get tickets for the football final?
5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1 We ________________________________________ (prefer) maths to geography.
2 ___________________________________________ (you, know) the app Shazam?
3 They ________________________________ (have) problems learning to program.
4 Jane ________________________________________ (feel) unwell at the moment.
5 ______________________________________________ (you, see) Phil this week?
6 I ___________________________ (not understand) that. Can you explain it again?
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6 Complete the text with the present simple or the present continuous
form of the verbs in brackets.
Love them or hate them new technologies
1____________________________(be) a part of our everyday lives. My grandmother
2__________________________(not be) fast at learning the latest advances, but she
3___________________________________(love) them. She
4_______________________________(use) instant messaging to contact her friends.
All of her friends use social media sites and they
5____________________________________________(update) their pages regularly.
At the moment, my grandmother
6____________________________________(look) at the latest fashion on her tablet.
Today she 7 ________________________________________(search for) some boots.
What 8 __________________________________ (you, like) about new technologies?
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