Activities

Present continuous or simple?

Written by Keith Taylor
Last updated on 28 January, 2022

This is a downloadable ESL worksheet to practise using the present continuous and present simple.

Here’s some more info about the activity:

Language point	Present simple and present continuous tenses
Aim	To practise using the present simple and present continuous tenses.
Activity	Students complete sentences and questions.
Organisation	Individual / pair work
Preparation	Make enough copies of the worksheet for the number of students in your class.
What do I do?	Hand out the worksheet. Students complete the sentences by choosing verbs from the list and putting them in the correct form. They then complete the corresponding questions.

Is it simple?
HAVE
GET UP
VISIT
PLAY (x2)
GO

1. ______________________________________________________________?
I always __________________ at 8am.
2. ______________________________________________________________?
They __________________ their friends in Manchester today.
3. ______________________________________________________________?
She __________________dinner with her grandmother every Tuesday.
4. ______________________________________________________________?
I __________________ to the dentist once a year.
5. ______________________________________________________________?
He __________________tennis at the moment.
6. ______________________________________________________________?
He __________________ basketball twice a week.

Keith is the co-founder of Eslbase. He has been a teacher and teacher trainer for over 20 years, in Indonesia, Australia, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Poland, France and now in the UK.

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