Grammar Practice - Herbert Puchta, Jeff Stranks, Peter Lewis-Jones 2012

Present simple

You use the present simple to talk about things you often do and things you like.

1 Find 15 verbs (↑ ↓ ← →). Write them.

1 watch

2 … - 15 …

2 Underline the correct options.

1 We watch I watches TV in the evening.

2 My father like I likes music.

3 I love I loves computer games.

4 You buy I buys a lot of CDs.

5 Pauline go I goes to a good school.

6 Alex climb I climbs trees.

7 They go I goes to the cinema on Fridays.

8 My dog play I plays football!

3 Complete with the He I She I It forms.

4 Complete the text with the verbs in the box.

arrives

climbs

go

goes

leaves

picks

run

runs

sit

sits

wait

watches

chase

hits

Lady Grey’s cat, Pepper, ¹leaves the house. It ² ... to the park. It ³... the birds in the park. Then, two dogs ⁴... Pepper. Pepper ⁵... away and ⁶... a tree. Pepper ⁷... in the tree. The dogs ⁸... under the tree. They ⁹... for Pepper.

Lady Grey ¹⁰... . She ¹¹... the dogs on the nose with her umbrella. The dogs ¹²... away. Lady Grey ¹³... Pepper up. They ¹⁴... home.

5 Write the verbs in the correct form.

6 Put the pictures in the correct order to tell a story.

7 Complete the text with the missing letters. Use the pictures in 6 to help you.

Every Monday, Lady Grey ¹ goes shopping. Today is Monday - so, Lady Grey ²I ... the house and ³ w...into town. Pepper is in her basket - Pepper ⁴I ... going shopping! They ⁵ g... to the supermarket. Lady Grey ⁶ b... a lot of things.

Lady Grey^{7 I...} the supermarket. She ⁸ s... . It’s raining! Lady Grey ^9I... in the basket for her umbrella - but it isn’t there. It’s in the house.

Pepper ¹⁰ j... out of the basket and ¹¹ r...to the house. Lady Grey ¹² w...outside the supermarket. Pepper ¹³ g...into the house. He ¹⁴ p...up the umbrella and ¹⁵ c...it to the supermarket.

Lady Grey is very happy. And Pepper is happy too - Lady Grey gives him fish for dinner, his favourite food!

8 Put the verbs in their correct form.

My friend the bird-watcher

My friend Peter’s got an interesting hobby. He ¹watches (watch) birds.

On Sunday morning, he ²... (get up) very early. He ³... (eat) his breakfast, then he ⁴... (take) his binoculars and ⁵... (leave) the house.

He ⁶... (walk) in the park or he ⁷... (go) into the woods. He ⁸... (climb) into a tree and he ⁹... (sit) there. He ¹⁰... (look) around with his binoculars. Sometimes he ¹¹... (wait) for hours and hours!

When a special bird ¹²... (arrive), Peter’s very happy. He ¹³... (write) the name of the bird in his book. Then he ¹⁴... (go) home for lunch.

Peter really ¹⁵... (like) his hobby. What do you think about it?