Present Tenses - Practice

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Present Tenses - Practice

• Aim to practice the structure and use of present
  tenses

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Ex 5 Put the verbs in brackets into the Present
Simple, Present Continuous or Present Perfect

• 1. have worked
• 2. teach
• 3. spend
• 4. have had
• 5. have just discovered
• 6. am studying
• 7. uses
• 8. am collecting
• 9. have examined
• 10. believe

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Use the notes to write sentences in the Present
Simple, Present Continuous or Present Perfect

• 2. be
• I am a traveller and a scientist.
• Ive been interested in Australia all my life.
• 3.work
• Ive worked as a scientist since 1991.
• I work as at Lancaster University as an
  ethnographer.
• Im working on a book about Australian food and
  drink.
• 4. write
• I have written more than twenty articles about
  Australian customs.
• I write books on Australia.
• I am writing a book on the life of Australian
  Aborigines.
• 5. live
• I live in Lancaster.
• Ive lived in the UK for twenty years.
• Im living among Australian Aborigines in order
  to do research for the book.

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Ex 7 make questions

• Have you ever travelled abroad?
• Have you ever lived abroad?
• How many countries have you been to?
• Do you like travelling?
• Are you planning a trip anywhere at the moment?
• How many languages do you speak?
• How many languages are you learning at the
  moment?
• Are you interested in any country/culture?

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Think about your future.What might you tell me
if you meet me in 10 years?

• Use these verbs
• do
• live
• work
• finish
• plan