I. Conjugate the following verbs in Present Continuous Tense:

to work, to answer, to make, to look, to translate, to read.

II. Comment on the use of Present Continuous Tense:

1. I am reading a trade magazine now. 2. What are you doing? 3. Can’t you see he is laughing at you? 4. He is going back to America. 5. Nick is spelling some new words now. 6. John is listened to the radio at the moment. 7. I am writing a massage now. 8. John and David are discussing a new text now. 9. They are leaving for Odessa tomorrow. 10. We are listening to our lecturer at the moment.

III. Make the following sentences interrogative then negative:

1. They are having a lesson now. 2. He is reading the article about ecological problems of the country. 3. My parents are working in the garden. 4. We are doing an exercise now. 5. My friend is playing football now. 6. They are reading an additional text at the moment.

IV. Open the brackets using the verbs in Present Continuous Tense:

1. I (not to read) now. 2. I (to write) an exercise now. 3. His father (not to watch) TV at the moment. 4. I (not to drink) coffee in the evening. 5. Your friend (to do) his home work now. 6. Who (to make) breakfast for you now? 7. You (to read) the magazine at the moment? 8. What she (to talk) about right now? 9. The students (to write) new grammar material at the moment. 10. A Monitor (to answer) teacher’s questions.

V. Build up two columns with the following adverbs according to the time:

Most of the time – at present – sometimes – now – every day – these days – how often – usually – nowadays – always – every now and then – just – often – currently – never – right now – once or twice a month – not often – at the moment – meanwhile – still.

e.g.

Present Simple Tense	Present Continuous Tense
always	now

VI. Open the brackets using the verbs in Present Simple or Present Continuous:

1. I (to take) my sister to school now. I (to take) her to school every day.

2. I (to read) now. I (to read) every day.

3. They (to go) to the university now. They (to go) to the university every morning.

4. The students (to make) exercise at the moment. The students (to make) exercises every lesson.

5. Some students (to look) through their notes now. The students (to look) through their notes before lessons.

6. My friend (to revise) grammar rules now. My friend always (to revise) grammar rules.

7. Today we (to go) to have a test in grammar. We (write) grammar tests at the end of each term.

8. They (to speak) English now? What language they usually (to speak)?

9. Is English a special subject at your university? – Yes, that’s why we (to want) to master English.

10. What language our seamen (to speak) in the foreign ports? – They usually (to speak) English.

VII. Put questions to the underlined words:

1. The students of our group are having an English lesson now. 2. They have two English lessons a week. 3. He is speaking to the dean. 4. There are 15 students in the laboratory. 5. Popov and Smirnov are listening to the tape-recorder. 6. He is going to enter our college. 7. He is reporting to the teacher now.