Exercise 1: Present simple or present progressive? 1. Be quiet! The baby (sleep). 2. We seldom (eat) be fore 6.30. 3. Look! a man (run) after a bus. He (want) to catch it. 4. The sun (rise) in the east and (set) in the west. 5. It (be) often hot in summer. 6. I (do) an exercise on present tenses at this moment and I (think) that I (know) how to use it now. 7. My mother sometimes (buy) vegetables at this market. 8. It (rain) much in summer. It (rain) now Exercise 2: Present tenses 1. Listen! I (think) someone (knock) at the door. 2. Up to the present, we (write) almost every lesson in the book. 3. The earth (circle) the sun once every 365 days. 4. The farmers (work) in the field at the moment. 5. How many time you (see) him since he went to Edinburgh? 6. Do you know that man, who (smoke) there? 7. Mrs Green always (go) to work by bus. 8. We (be) from France. We (be) there for 20 years.