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Present Continuous tense: exercises Exercise 1. Use Present Continuous:
⦁ The boys (to run) about in the garden.
⦁ I (to do) my homework.
⦁ John and his friends (to go) to the library.
⦁ The dog (to lie) on the floor.
⦁ Who (to lie) on the sofa?

Exercise 2. Use Present Continuous:
1. Bess … (not help) about the house now.
2. My friend … (not play) the piano now.
3. We … (not listen) to music.
4. The farther …. (not work) in the garden.
5. Richard and Henry … (not swim) in the river in summer.

Exercise 3. Make positive, negative or question form, use Present Continuous:
⦁ They/walk in the park. (+)
⦁ Sophie/eat berries. (-)
⦁ Mother/vacuum-clean. (?)
⦁ Jenny/write a postcard. (+)
⦁ We/swim in the swimming-pool. (-)

Exercise 4. Make the sentences correct:
1. They learning English.
2. She is play tennis.
3. You is drinking milk.
4. What is they doing?
5. Where your friends staying?
6. He am going to the shops.
7. I isn’t talking on the phone.

Past Continuous tense: exercises

Exercise 1. Use Past Continuous:
⦁ When I phoned my friends, they (play) monopoly.
⦁ Yesterday at six I (prepare) dinner.
⦁ The kids (play) in the garden when it suddenly began to rain.
⦁ I (practise) the guitar when he came home.
⦁ We (not / cycle) all day.

Exercise 2. Use Present Continuous or Past Continuous:
⦁ I (to write) an English exercise now. I (to write) an English exercise at that time yesterday.
⦁ My little sister (to sleep) now. My little sister (to sleep) at that time yesterday.
⦁ My friends (not to do) their homework now. They (to play) volleyball.
⦁ My friends (not to do) their homework at seven o’clock yesterday. They (to play) volleyball.
⦁ What you (to do) now? — I (to drink) tea. you (to drink) tea at that time yesterday? — No, I (not to drink) tea at this time yesterday, I (to eat) a banana.