Exercise 1

Conversations.

Go over the following conversations to check your understanding on the present simple and the present continuous and their corresponding time expressions.

Read the conversations and choose the best answer. At the end you will know how well you did it.

    Situation 1


    Maude is talking to her co-worker Tom
    Maude: Hello, Tom. How are you?
  • a) I’m a little bit tired.
  • b) I’m Thomas Parker.
  • c) I’m sitting on my office chair.

    • Feedback: the question “How are you?” tells you how a person feels (emotionally and physically)

Read the prompts and select the correct sentence.