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Present Continuous and Present Simple




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The Present Continuous tense
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Fool's Garden

TASK 1. Listen to the song Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden and complete the sentences with the Present Participle to form the Present Continuous tense.

I'm here in a boring room

It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon

I'm my time I got nothing to do
I'm around I'm for you
but nothing ever happens - and I wonder

 

I'm around in my car

I'm too fast I'm too far

I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely I'm for you
but nothing ever happens - and I wonder

 

I wonder how I wonder why

yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky

and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
and all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

I'm here I miss the power

I'd like to go out, take a shower

but there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired put myself into bed

where nothing ever happens - and I wonder

 
Isolation - is not good for me
Isolation - I don't want to sit on a lemon-tree
I'm around in a desert of joy

Baby, anyhow I'll get another toy

and every thing will happen -and you'll wonder

 

 
I wonder how I wonder why

yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky

and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm  my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around

and all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

 
TASK 2. Choose the right form of the verb keeping in mind the special cases of using the Present Simple or Present Continuous tense.
 
1. She must be a happy person; she .
2. Good jobs  much harder to find these days.
3. I  you are very intelligent.
4. This year he  logistics, last year he studied marketing.
5. This fire alarm always  at the wrong moment.
6. I  John tonight.
7. I have noticed that digital cameras  cheaper in the shops.
8. We  to solve this argument right now.
9. The weather is beautiful and they  of going to the beach.
10. Everyone knows that the earth  round the sun.

 
TASK 3. Choose the verb from the list and use it in the correct form to complete the sentences in the Present Continuous tense. (There is one extra verb which you do not need!)
 
drive         become          drink           always/clean            stay           not/stop          live          take         have 
 
1. Granny  a nap, so be quiet!
2. They  in the hotel near the stadium, it is not far.
3. Ian  a shower, could you call back in five minutes?
4. Mike has already left, at this moment he  to work.
5. Today taxi drivers   at the opera house because of the roadworks.
6. Actually, I  a cup of tea now but I will be ready in a moment.
7. Holidays abroad  increasingly popular.
8. Dad  the car whenever I want to borrow it.