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Present simple exercises with answers

Verb to be - all forms

  • Complete short dialogues:
    How often are you ill?
    Quite often. I ___ very healthy.

Verb to be - questions

  • Complete questions with the verb to be:
    Where ___ Mark and Kevin? They are so late.
    I have no idea.

Do/does questions

  • Complete do/does questions:
    ___ to be a doctor? (your brother - want)
    I don't know. But I want to be a nurse.

Wh questions

  • Liz is taking her English exam. Complete the examiner's wh- questions.
    Your name is Elizabeth. ___ your friends ___ you?
    My friends call me Liz.

Negative forms (don't, doesn't)

  • What a good student doesn't do? Choose correct answers.
    The best student ___ any mistakes. (don't do, doesn't do)
    Even the worst students ___ during lessons. (don't sleep, doesn't sleep)

Positive and negative

  • Correct mistakes in a knowledge quiz.
    Ostriches live in Australia.
    Ostriches ___ in Australia. (not live) They ___ in Africa. (be)

Third person singular - story

  • Complete the story about Sam's kitten.
    What a fast cat she is! She never ___ a mosquito. (miss)

Third person singular - spelling

  • My dear family. Complete sentences with verbs from the list.
    (cry, go, practise, love)
    My aunt Fiona ___ watching romantic stories on TV.
    She sometimes ___ at the end of a story.

Present simple - mixed forms

  • A multiple choice test.
    Who ___ with when you are in Prague on your holiday? (you stay, do you stay)

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